"Into the Cave"
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Call this a new experiment.
A week ago I wrote about a new possibility for a fiction series about professional wrestling. It’s not like I don’t have enough to do during my summer break, promoting my newest book (The Yank Striker), trying to write the sequel to said book, and continuing to come up with new and interesting stuff to read here. But it’s like I said more or less in the article, you might be able to ignore an idea in your head, but when characters take shape in your head and begin to have conversations with you and each other, it eventually becomes something you have to pay attention to.
The Birth of a Wrestling Story
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth. - Tim O’Brien I’m not really an expert on other people’s creative processes. Having been in different writing groups for more than a decade, I’ve heard everything from those who proudly call themselves “pantsers” (as in seat-of-the-pants) and those who meticulously pl…
So, I was a little bit inspired to move forward with this… but I thought, why keep this to myself, even if I’m in the process of putting it together? Why not give those people who have been willing to put their money forward to read my work an inside look at the creative process as it happens?
In short, reader, this is what you are going to see today. I think in my earlier article on this poss…
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