A Novel Approach - Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give me feedback!

Richard Jordan resolved never to let himself be called Dick again.  Not by anyone for the rest of his life, even if that life happened to end today.  He figured the chances of a fatality at about a seventy five [...]

The muse can be a real pain in the butt. When I am writing in the wrong direction I get slapped around pretty well. I can’t write with flow, nothing is clear, and the story, well… if you spent some time in this section of the blog, you have to pretty much know it wasn’t going well.

It’s time for a book giveaway! Education expert Hal W. Lanse is giving away copies of his latest book, READ WELL, THINK WELL!

In order to win, here are the rules:

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INT. COURTROOM — DAY

               Dick and Carl, Jane and Decker, ADA Johnson and the Judge are
               all arranged in the Judge’s office.  The Judge is out of his
               robe.  The Judge surveys the players sternly.

                                   JUDGE
                         Someone got me off the golf course.

The Face of Death, the new thriller by Cody McFadyen is my first foray into the writing style of this author but it won’t be my last.  
The Face of Death mines the popular and fertile fiction ground of the unique serial killer. 

Plotdog Press is jealous and envious to be a stop on  Cody McFadyen’s, The Face of Death book tour, brought to you by PUMP UP YOUR BOOK PROMOTION VIRTUAL BOOK TOURS. 
This might be a good time for you to ask why jealous and envious? I am not an easy reader to get to try a new author, but when I am out of my favorites I will read into a new author just to see what might be out there.  As a reader I tend towards thrillers and suspense so my eyes usually head right for those novels on the shelves or tables.  While I see myself as a writer after my book and screenplays, I am more than ever a fan of authors.  I hope that never changes.  When I wander into my favorite book stores, I literally stroll, allowing my eyes to catch covers and titles that strike me as interesting. 

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

About Writing
JHS, Esq. -  “Writing Authentically: What Does it Mean to You?”

Poetry
Penelope Anne Bartotto - “Ode to a System Down” - haiku on computer crash
Jennifer M Scott - “To Taste the Moon” - a poem from a child’s POV wondering how the moon would taste

Fiction/Drama/Monologue
Penelope Anne Bartotto - “Treasures” - The greatest gift we have to give = love in 100 words
Jennifer M Scott - “The Choices We Make” - a dramatic monologue about a battered wife and why she did the things she did. What did she do? I guess you’ll have to read and find out!

Every writer seems to develop some individual quirks and talents that are almost so strong as to almost be a super power in their craft. New writers, like me occasionally take some time developing their superpowers in the best way, at least that is my perspective. (And there are many perspectives on PERSPECTIVE)

My use of “perspective”, is apparently close to but not spot on with a PhD in English level use of the term. The word doctors seem to interchange perspective in literary circles with the term Point of View or POV.

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Zen and the Art of Art you can sell Nowhere! (trust me it will make sense).
PlotDog Press is pleased to bring to your attention, the work of Eliezer Sobel.  Any book, fiction, non-fiction, pop-up or some other form, can be made better either through the use of humor or through providing the reader unique new [...]

That tiny seed was fertilized by Eddie’s feeling that everyone could read the existence of his new kinky lifestyle. He could still feel the marks from her whip and other extreme treatments, but more to the point, for today, well, this was the first time he had murdered a man with his own hands and he was sure that somehow that must show as he wandered through a grocery store picking up cereal. He watched Sara read the ingredients of a new type of soup, just like she had done this a hundred times; murder, then soup reading; choke someone; oops too many carbs in the soup. He

ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY JOHNSON shakes hands with Decker.

GRIFFIN DECKER
Tim, nice to see you again.

ADA JOHNSON
Wheels are turning, as we speak.

Sometimes, I Can’t Help Myself.  This is one of those times; Jenn at Before I am Famous asks, “How do you write?” 

Hmmmm, with a computer, one word at a time, with my fingers, with my eyes closed, not well, with a muse and of course with immense pleasure.

See, couldn’t help it, I hope at least one of those responses made you smile.  The truth of how I write is inarguably much less pretty than I think it is for most other people.

PlotDog Press values a wide variety of forms of creative writing, non-fiction and creative non-fiction writing. Every authorial form brings a new perspective to others and we all learn that many types of writing are critical to our readers. We seek to bring you writing from the best selling beach reads to the more obscure forms that fill out the readers world and add to their experience base.

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

About Writing - Writing Nag - “5 Ways to Face Down Rejection”

Poetry
Robert Bourne - “Hope”
Jennifer M Scott - “Waiting for September”

Fiction - Jenn H. - “The Birth Announcement”

Prose/Non-Fiction - Mike Fried - “There’s no business like law business”

A Novel Approach - Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give me feedback!

It wasn’t right to say Richard had been in love before, he was still in love but now he had been cleaved from her. Richard despaired that he knew what absolute love was for he had lived it and lost it. In moments of pristine clarity he both rejoiced in and mourned that he had been so abjectly and completely in love. He was not foolish; this was not puppy or teen love, but true devoted connection on a completely cellular level. Being lost to it was more agonizing in that he had been doomed by it.

Why this chapter now, and why no chapter number?
The placement of this chapter isn’t known yet. As the chapters develop I am sure it will become clear to me when this information finds its place in the novel. I provide it to you so you understand some essential motivations for Richard’s actions. If you have thoughts on when this should pop up as we write, I would love to hear your thoughts.

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Stars apparent shining dark skies
cloaked secrets in midnight blue
mysterious shadows like venomous illusions
thick shadows folding lucid dreams
million cricket chirps, stillborn stars

the serenely silent sanctuary beckons
Succulent kisses, mysterious smudged eyes.
tangled hair entwines enfolding arms
sleepy abyss of confounding dreams

silent, unwieldy, deep shadows night

distraught nightmares child snuggly daddy
dark world disappears peaceful rest

Exquisite Corpse is hosted by Before I am Famous.

I can’t wait to tell you about The AdSpace Contest I found!

The idea is simple and easy: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) over the next 30 days. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! At the end of the 30 days, they announce the winner.

The prize?
A 125×125 pixel ad spot (above the fold) on at least TEN DIFFERENT BLOGS that will run for one month. That’s at least a $100 value!

Being the youngest member of my family I remember being a kid, thinking, the older kids in school must know all the answers. Once I got into school, it was the high school kids, then the college age kids, and when I was in college, it felt like the diploma must come with some magic tome that would explain the real world. It didn’t come in the diploma or even during the discussions I had with friends in the same situation. Now, that magic tome is here.

For a man, who was firmly tied in a chair, wearing a woman’s panties and bra and had a ball gag in his mouth, things were going remarkably well for Eddie. By late afternoon, he had even gotten over his total fear of being blindfolded and bound.

INT. SECOND INTERROGATION ROOM — MOMENTS LATER

               Jane sits with Decker across the table.

                                   JANE
                         Alan sent you?

                                   GRIFFIN DECKER
                         The wheels are rolling in the
                         prosecutor’s office, as we speak.

While PlotDog Press tends to focus on fiction, we enjoy and support both fiction and non-fiction writing.  Each type of writing has it own challenges, rewards and readership.  One of the difficult things to writing non-fiction is finding an area of specialization where your market is in need of your expertise and where your experience is representative of the problems that readers will need answered.  Author Hal W. Lanse is a writer who fits the definition of finding a significant problem and coming forward with innovative information that will assist parents and children at literacy risk.

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

Fiction
Penelope Anne Bartotto - ‘I’ll Always Hold Your Hand’
Jennifer M Scott  - ‘Her Breasts’
Jenn - ‘What Friends Do’

About Writing - JHS, Esq. - ‘If a writer writes . . .’

Poetry - Jennifer M Scott - ‘100 Years from Now’

There are lots of reasons to get stopped in your writing process.  Some are terrible, some are pretty good, and some are great reasons.  In my humble opinion, none of the reasons is good enough to keep a true writer down for more than a bit.  The amount of down time is directly correlated to the severity of the reason for stopping. 

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An interview with Left to Die author Lisa Jackson with an excerpt from the book.

“Lisa Jackson can’t keep away from murderers, especially serial killers.  She’s been killing people everywhere from Savannah and New Orleans to San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest—and it’s been worth it.  Her readers come back again and again, and her novels are fixtures on national bestseller lists. In fact, her book Fatal Burn was a number one New York Times paperback bestseller, and the first two of her novels to be published in hardcover, Shiver and Absolute Fear, were in the top five on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

John Marshall sat, infuriated at his over sized desk, in his not so governmentally appointed office. Opulence wasn’t allowed but that didn’t mean that position didn’t have its benefits. For instance, his chair was the same or better than the ones those god damned federal judges sat their judgmental, liberal asses on.

 INT. POLICE STATION INTERROGATION ROOM — NEXT MORNING

               Dick and Jane sit.  The morning Sun shows Jane more widely

               awake and Dick looking resolute, beaten and pissed.

PlotDog is honored to be part of this successful "Authors on Tour" blog book tour for “I’m Watching You” by Mary Burton.  It is a unique opportunity for us at Plot Dog Press to be able to get to know an author with the depth and breadth of talent as Ms. Burton.  She is one of those few writers who has the dedication and focus necessary to complete a successful Non-Fiction book “THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO DIRECT MARKETING” as well as a number of fiction books, and numerous articles.  

Who is Mary Burton?

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

Poetry
Penelope Anne Bartotto – “100 Words ~ Pillar”
Robert Bourne – “Rain on the window”
Jennifer M Scott - “Proximity”

Fiction - Jenn - “Still Holding Her Hand”

About Writing
Kimota - “What Kind of Writer are You?”

Today and Tomorrow it is to the beach I go.
to walk along amongst sea creatures
On the beach to dance around
Cling to the past sandy trails.

Below in to you the sun fall.
Ever brisk as a breeze to my face.
Always there to sea and shore.

Halcyon days to clam the ocean.

Torrid asphalt no gas to beach
To stare at futility across water, Tokyo-3

Exquisite Corpse is hosted by Before I am Famous

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