You can read my new short story at: https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/stories/the-glencoe-project/ This story draws on my experiences as a transportation planner. Experienced writers always tell new writers to “write what you know.” That hasn’t been easy for me up until now. Several times I’ve set out to write a story with a transportation planning background, but I abandoned… Read Article →
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I completed the first draft of my transportation planning adventure yesterday. I got 2,500 words written, which brought the final story to about 7,600 words. That is much longer than the 6,000 word story I had planned. I’ll need to edit it down quite a lot. My brother suggested I read Kathy Reichs’ book Déjà… Read Article →
Some of the people I used to work with have encouraged me to do a story about transportation planning, so I have tried several times to do that. Nothing has come together yet. I started to write a movie set in a transportation planning office, but got bogged down in the details. That experience made… Read Article →
One of the sites I publish on (Triond) has a special on this month where I get a bonus if I publish 5 or more articles, so I’ve gone back to several articles that I’d left unfinished. I published two this week. Three more articles and I’m done. Note: The original post has been taken… Read Article →
Writers are always told to “write what you know.” I worked for 30 years as a transportation planner, so I thought I should write a story set in that milieu. So far I have found that very hard to do. About six years ago I started on a script idea set in a transportation planning… Read Article →
I finished and published my new short story. A typical management consultant doesn’t need to worry that someone will try to kill him, but then, Ken Walker wasn’t a typical management consultant. I used Lester Dent’s writing formula. It isn’t deep and the characters are a little thin, but I think you’ll find it a… Read Article →
I rewrote my “Lester Dent” story three times this week and I have a new name for it: The Abattoir Case – A Ken Walker Adventure. I used a text to speech program (Free Natural Reader) to help me with the proof reading. The program reads exactly what I wrote and it is much easier… Read Article →
I finished the first draft of my story based on the Lester Dent Master Fiction Plot formula. It came in at 6,463 words, or somewhat longer than the 6,000 words that the formula targets. I will need to rewrite the story to fix some inconsistencies, and I can likely tighten up the story when I… Read Article →
After I read over Lester Dent’s story formula, I wanted to try it out. I developed a spreadsheet that I could use to organize the outline. I added some modifications of my own that I thought would help me write. This week I did an outline. I wanted to leave the project until later because… Read Article →
When I was young, I read every Doc Savage book I could get, and reread the ones I had several times. I learned later that the writer, Lester Dent, had turned out one 50,000-word Doc Savage book a month for over 14 years. Not only that, but Doc Savage accounted for about a quarter of… Read Article →
