Here is me and some of my buds in writing: Charles Dickens, John Grisham, Stephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien. We got together a few years ago at a writing conference and Stephen demanded a picture. I think the dead guys look really natural.

POV:
Here's some little things that I have been learning about the importance of POV (Point of View). Tim Shoemaker an author that I had the privilege of hearing at a writers conference told me some of the most important things that I have ever learned about POV. So the following is a conglomeration of what I learned from Tim and picked up through numerous articles and books...
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Great quotes:

Say what you see and get on with the story - Stephen King

You must be willing to kill your darlings - Earnest Hemingway

Irish writer Samuel Beckett had this card tacked to the wall beside his writing desk:

"Fail. Fail again. Fail better."

Indeed, he continued to fail better and better; Beckett received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

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Works in Progress Fiction:

• Altar and the Darkness
• Road Rage
• Ask First
• Mediocrity
• Hurricane
• Coma

Works in Progress Non-Fiction:

• Worship Is
• Raising Kids Without Killing Em'