“I don’t feel very good,” she whispered. She was looking around to see if there might be a police officer around. She tried to turn back toward the bar, thinking she might be able to get help, but his grip tightened. “Please, let me go,” she said, her words slurring.

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Jack Dixon was a TOTAL loser with a crush on a girl. She didn’t even know who he was. At all. But his father had bought him a computer and it included a game that approximated life. He discovered that he could “replay” portions of his actual life if things went wrong… he could restart the day.

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Planning Vengeance, my first book, is FREE right now. It has a new cover, and has been newly updated. (found a few more typos…) There is even a new blurb, courtesy of Pat Johnson. It’s pretty great, too.

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As I create a character, I will give them a birthday, a picture, a back story and work out more of their details.

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So, the first step, at least for me, is to just sit down and write. I will start with the barest idea of a plot, but I do NOT have all of the details, plot twists or even conflicts worked out. Others do… and that is AWESOME, but it doesn’t work for me.

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Then I have a first draft. For me, that means I have probably read it five to ten times. I’ve also changed a bunch of stuff and looked at it out of order a few times, too.

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