Somebody on Twitter asked this question today: I have wrestled with this question at intervals. I usually think about it for a short while, but then I remember that I have a finite amount of time left on the planet and I need to create something that is definably mine before I go. I have worked in I.T. for 42 years, and I do not believe that I was able to “move the needle” on […]
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During a conversation with a fellow author yesterday, the subject of tinkering came up. Both of us, it became clear, will read and re-read our draft chapters and stories and, as is normal, we will spot something. It can be prose, sentence construction, plot discrepancies…almost anything. In my own case, knowing that people were reading story samples resulted in me going back and re-reading the samples, only to find…yep, you guessed it, stuff that I
This morning, I found myself staring at a question that I commonly see on social media: This, in broader terms, leads to the classic worry that I think most authors have: what if somebody else plagiarizes or steals all or part of my writing and claims it as their own? (This, by the way, applies to almost any type of writing; fiction, non-fiction, current affairs, you name it). I have done a lot of reading
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The writer A.R. Moxon wrote a thread on twitter about his approach to writing his first novel. His approach matches mine almost exactly. Books of Loukas will not fit into any pre-determined genre, and I see no prospect of any established publisher picking it up for that reason alone. I therefore plan to self-publish it. If it sells like gangbusters and a publisher picks it up, all well and good, since a condition of a
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(Interviewer’s note: This should have been an in-person interview, but due to Covid travel restrictions, it took place over Zoom. Once again, I noticed a cat or two wandering around, and one tabby cat on the keyboard for Rupert’s work laptop). I: So, Rupert, what have you been working on and what can we expect soon? R: <sighs>. I wish I could tell you that a book is imminent, but alas, the Election and Brexit
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