Category: writing
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A.I. is weird.
In my previous post, I discussed how I sent the Clove draft to the AI beta-reading site AuthorCraft. It supplied me with a HUGE amount of useful information broken down into “Critical”, “Moderate”, and “Minor” suggestions for style, scenario, and characters. I saved the info as a PDF, and it…
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So far, so good!
I am not yet finished with The Clove, but I am getting closer! One reason I haven’t posted here lately is that I am trying to save my writing time for the actual novel rather than the Blog. This Blog is meant for information about my research and experience writing…
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New List of Posts
Here is a synopsis of all the posts. I was thinking I hadn’t done enough until I saw how many were here.
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Do I need a PodCast?
It can’t be a mystery that promotion is a necessary part of a writer’s quest for publication. This Blog, where I have a lot of fun with images and sharing my experiences, is unapologetically also a promotional tool. The blog is only successful if it is engaging and informative enough…
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My historian Dad.
My father, Walter Brophy Earl, didn’t say much. I learned most about him through my Mother or by observing him. He was essentially an eccentric nerd as a young man, helping his parents, Cornwall’s Town Clerks, collecting stamps, and a love of projecting movies outdoors for a neighborhood theater. He…
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Licence to Thrill?
“The Clove” is my attempt to retell part of the story of Claudius Smith’s notorious gang of terrorists, the latest and probably not the last of historical fictions to deal with the subject. Over the years, there have been more than a few variations on the story. Most published versions I…
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Bill
Back in the middle of the 1960s, after I was a Boy Scout but before I was a dropout and Vietnam War resistor, I was in the Episcopal Youth Community. Known as “EYC,” The organization is worldwide, but the individual chapters have autonomy over what the local group is about.…
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Going with the Flow
If you have been following this blog, you probably wondered what has happened to the almost daily posts. Well, there have been a few interruptions, the weather got nicer, the Yankees have been playing better, illness, life in general, but basically, I got stuck in a procrastination loop. It didn’t…
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List of Posts
I thought I’d post a list of post links. Some of the first ones still exist, but may be harder to find. About The First One The Creek Character List A New Beginning Claudius Smith The Raid Control John Earl’s Will Crime Timeline The Earl Women Claudius Smith’s Wife Gobby-O…
