The Long Walk : A Writer’s Journey #4 – The gargantuan depressive slump
The Long Walk : A Writer’s Journey #4 The gargantuan depressive slump 07-11-16 So how does a writer get out of a slump? I don’t mean the little tiny ones you encounter just because you aren’t in the mood. I mean the really huge,...
End Week Reflection, There is no THEM, there is only a WE.
An End week Reflection 07-08-16 Last weekend I posted my Gettysburg Blogs as a reminder of the past, and the importance of it. It took the place of my usual Long Walk, Writer’s Journey posting because I felt it needed to be written about. I’ll be returning to...
Gettysburg : The 3rd Day
Men with sallow faces stare grimly across the battlefield, each lost in his own thoughts. It is the 3rd Day at Gettysburg. A weariness clings to their bones, exhaustion to their bodies. Each man clutches his rifle as a silent tension drifts across the tall...
Gettysburg : The 2nd Day
The new days dawn slips across the battlefield pursuing a fleeing darkness. And it is a dawn which reveals the terrifying cost of the day of battle before. The fields and town streets of the small Pennsylvania hamlet are strewn with the dead, while the crows peck, and...
Gettysburg : The 1st Day
Gettysburg: On this day in 1863 Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia clashed with the Union Army of the Potomac under the command of Gen. George Gordon Meade. Less than three months before, Lee with the aid of the now fallen Gen. Thomas J. Jackson destroyed...
The Long Walk : A Writer’s Journey #3 –
What do you owe your characters? The Long Walk : A Writer’s Journey #3 06-27-16 ast week we talked about what we owed our audience in terms of good writing. This week,...
Sloppy writing – Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 9
The Long Walk : A Writer’s Journey #2 06-20-16 This week’s blog is on the importance of what you owe your reader in terms of good writing. And by way of example I thought I’d use a very popular piece of storytelling we’re...
The Long Walk : A Writers Journey #1
6-13-16 Picking up the thread again, regaining focus, and consistency - as a writer this is the journey - It’s Monday morning and I’m already wiped out. Wrestling with a bad head cold, sinus thing you see. My lovely girl, Fran was down with it the last two weeks and I...
The power of many authors!
Authors take note... One drop, joined by others, can become a powerful force! Authors are always looking for ways to get readers to their sites. Many of us complain that the business of attracting readers is harder work than actually writing our novels. But one group...
Unofficial Elder Scrolls Novel : Dragonborn
Unofficial Elder Scrolls Book 1 Dragonborn by Ben Coleman http://www.bencolemanauthor.com A bleak wind blew through the Fort and settlement of Helgen, and bore with it a coldness that crept into the spirit as well as the bone....