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I Have No Time For Your Misunderstanding

August 22, 2016 by Gene Doucette 6 Comments

I would like to declare an official moratorium on all of the following cinematic tropes:

  • the eternally patient New York editor talking their genius author through personal problems with the grace befitting the Actress of a Certain Age that’s been cast to play the part
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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amazon, EBooks, new york city, Publishing, tropes, Writing

When twenty-seven years equals five months

April 30, 2016 by Gene Doucette 2 Comments

This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post shortly before The Spaceship Next Door debuted.  Philosophically, pieces like this were why I was writing for HuffPo in the first place: interest people in reading my articles, then show them something about my fiction writing.  Since HP doesn’t share market information, I have no idea if this approach worked or not.

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Filed Under: The Spaceship Next Door Tagged With: nmh, northfield mount hermon, sorrow falls, The Spaceship Next Door, Writing

New HuffPo article: Quitting?

January 15, 2015 by Gene Doucette Leave a Comment

Wait, I could just quit?Image

I have a new article up at the Huffington Post this afternoon.

I didn’t know quitting was an option.

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Filed Under: Huffington Post, Writing Tagged With: blog post, Huffington Post, Writing

More Bad Advice for Writers–new HuffPo

October 9, 2014 by Gene Doucette Leave a Comment

Image 14I have a new Huffington Post article up today.  It’s more fun with bad writing, appropriately headlined “More Bad Advice for Writers!”  Since the first one was kind of popular…

Click here for your very bad advice!

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Filed Under: Huffington Post, Writing Tagged With: bad advice for writers, Huffington Post, Writing

Success Bias–new HuffPo article

September 5, 2014 by Gene Doucette 1 Comment

Posting todayImage 14

I have a new blog post up at the Huffington Post.  This one is called Success Bias, and you can read it by clicking here.

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Filed Under: Huffington Post, Writing Tagged With: article, Huffington Post, self promotion, Writing

Huffington Post article on dialogue

March 31, 2014 by Gene Doucette Leave a Comment

Why Your Dialogue is TerribleImage

My latest article is up on Huffington Post, on how terrible your dialogue is:

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Dialogue, Huffington Post, Writing, Writing advice

In defense of fan fiction

July 8, 2013 by Gene Doucette Leave a Comment

On fan fiction

I don’t write fan fiction, or publish fiction that existed at another time as fan fiction.  I also don’t read fan fiction.  To the best of my knowledge nothing I have written has spawned any manner of fan fiction out there, but it’s entirely possible I’m wrong because (again) I don’t read fan fiction.13136517105892p

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Filed Under: Fanfic, Writing Tagged With: Ethan Frome, Fanfic, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Writing

Terror is a blank page

June 27, 2012 by Gene Doucette 3 Comments

Writing from scratch

I don’t want to alarm anybody, but do you realize how long it’s been since I started a novel from scratch?  It’s been…

hang on…

(counting)

SEVEN YEARS.

(Holy shit.  It’s been seven years.  I was sort of kidding around when I started this post, but that’s forever!)

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Filed Under: Immortal 3, Writing Tagged With: Hellenic Immortal, Immortal, Immortal 3, Writing

Anticipation

June 6, 2012 by Gene Doucette 1 Comment

That sound you hear is me holding my breath

I am slowly going insane.  This insanity is due to the following facts:

  1. Immortal and Hellenic Immortal are both doing very well, both in terms of sales and reviews, however…
  2. …there is more press coverage coming.
  3. Eventually.
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Filed Under: Hellenic Immortal, Immortal, Reviews, Sales, Writing Tagged With: Hellenic Immortal, Immortal, Writing

I hate editing

October 3, 2011 by Gene Doucette 2 Comments

I haven’t felt like a writer in months

For the past few weeks I have been working on a rewrite – slash – edit – slash – reworking of a novel of mine called Fixer, about which you have likely heard almost nothing because I haven’t discussed it except in passing before now.

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Filed Under: Editing, Fiction, Fixer, Hellenic Immortal, Immortal, Writing Tagged With: editing, Fixer, Hellenic Immortal, Immortal, Writing

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