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Chapter One
Taran Acker hugged his knees to his chest as he hid
in the closet. Flinching at the repeated sound of fists hitting flesh just
beyond the door, he rocked back and forth beneath the closet shelves...
Excerpt from SCION: A Science Fiction Short Story
A NASA lander searches for revenge against its creators in the deserts of Mars…
A spark of power
ignites the Promethean flame within me, and I become...
Whenever we stare at that first blank
page of a new manuscript, we ask ourselves a question, What opening scene
would make me interested in reading the book? No, this isn’t rhetorical.
It’s a genuine question.
For...
It’s a lot like
the Golden Rule—whoever has the gold makes the rules. Whoever has the outline
writes the story.
As you have
probably realized, the outline is the last step in the, ahem, outlining
process....
Well,
not everybody can be Batman, but everybody does need a Robin. Even Joker
has his own Robin, but that’s a far darker storyline.
With
the summary complete, we now have a better understanding of who...