~ Author's Notebook ~
The Sunset Saga Series Sketch — The Story Of Three-Rivers And The Servants Of Burnt Man
He Said I Was Midnight — Sublimating Your Past Into Fiction
Fringe Fiction — Confessions Of A Compulsive Writer
Sunset Character Sketches — 23 Personalities From The Sunset Saga (glossary)
My Ugly Muse — On Prolific Writing
On Writer's Block — Notes On Writing Despite Creative Obstacles
The Name Drain — Notes On Aliases And Fictional Name Generation
The Title Mill — One Author's Method For Titling Fiction
A Note To The Reader — An Archived Header
On The Sunset World — Time-travel Fiction, Character Creation & Story Development
The Three-Rivers Sunset Saga Hijacking — The Short Story Draft That Became The Novel Thunderboy
The Sin Of Letters — One Man's Crime Against Materialism
Through A Glass Darkly — A Horror Writer's Perspective
A Bus Tale — Weaving Inconvenience Into Fiction
The Fighting Edge — The Scrapped Second Edition Of James' First Book
Gay Incestuous Time-travelling Mutant Quadruplets — Defining Speculative Fiction
From Beyond A Dark Age Grave — On Writing Prolifically Under Duress
The Chronological Alien — Notes On Developing Character Perspective
Looking Back At Sodom And Gomorrah — Notes On Cultivating Character Perspective
The Sad Scientist — Leonardo, A Widow Named Beautiful Flower & A Quixotic Quantum Physicist
Wrath Of The Thunderbeast — Working Tragedy Into Fiction
Author's Notebook #1 — Menthol Rampage
The Knife In Fiction — Fight Scene Tips For A Fellow Writer
Author’s Notebook #2 — Mantid: The Seven Fantastic Heresies Of Heshman Shew Mote
Author’s Notebook #3 — Little Feet Going Nowhere: Sam Waterford’s Outrageous Profession And The Fate Of Humanity
Author’s Notebook #4 — Dog Of War: The Journey Of Bruco, Last Of The Exiles
Lobotomize Your Fractured Imagination — On The Utility Of Focus Outlines
Why You Don’t Get Laid — Your Trojan Whorse: Appendix, Repossessing Your Manhood In A Woman’s World
NOV/05/13
Living Writing — One Reason Why Your Output Can Crash
NOV/05/13
Murdering Protagonists — Are Long-lived Characters Endangered?
NOV/08/13
Final Hour: Spitting Into The Galactic Wind — Author’s Notebook #6: The Sequel To First Contact
NOV/13/13
Rubber Band Man — Author’s Notebook #7: The Saga Of Janitor X, Sequel To Soter’s Way
NOV/15/13
Dying In Your Dreams — On Writing While You Sleep
NOV/18/13
Why Grownups Suck — Author’s Notebook #8: A Guide To Parents, Teachers, Teenagers And Other Crazies, For Militant Children
NOV/20/13
A Call From Jan — Writing In The Shadows Of Self-censorship
DEC/01/13
REMFs & Rambos — Notes For Writing Fiction: How Do Real Soldiers Fight Without Weapons?
DEC/09/13
Deganawida & The One Parted Tree — Crackpot Sci-Fi #1: What If A Shamanistic Savant Merged With A God-device?
DEC/17/13
Lord Of The Lezbos Or 'Harm City Island' — How Would Regular People Recreate Society?: A Creative Writing Exercise Gone Awry
DEC/18/13
The Morality Box — Defining Right And Wrong In The Past, Present And Future
DEC/30/13
Tackling An Epic Novel — Seven Moons Deep: Pendleton Shaw’s Quest For The Seven Cities Of The Moon
JAN/03/14
Killer Babes — The Requisite Woman Of Power In Modern Science-Fiction
JAN/08/14
Crackpot Alley — Diary Of A Tenuously Sane Man: The Author’s Archive: 1/8/2014
JAN/17/14
Do It Yourself Brain Surgery — Notes On Cannibalizing Your Writing Influences For Fiction
JAN/31/14
Managing Your Fiction Output — Author’s Notebook #8
JAN/31/14
2014 Project Checklist — Author’s Notebook #9
JAN/31/14
The Weekly Writing Checklist — Author’s Notebook #10
FEB/03/14
The No You — Notes On Ghostwriting For The First Time Keyboard Whore
FEB/05/14
‘The Curse Of Heaven’ — The French Revolution In San Domingo By Lothrop Stoddard
FEB/07/14
Taboo You — Way Of The Terminal Man: Author’s Notebook #11
MAR/10/14
Editors Of Venus — Darkly: Dystopia In Power, The Science-Fiction Anthology That Died
MAR/12/14
Homo Terminus — Wrapping Up The Nonfiction Book
MAR/24/14
‘Head In Hand’ — Winter-Warrior By Joseph Bellofatto
MAR/24/14
Fountains Of Andromeda — A Cosmic Work By Joseph Bellofatto
MAR/25/14
‘Defiance Incarnate’ — Samson And Delilah By Joseph Bellofatto
MAR/28/14
Imperishable Punks — Immortality In Fiction And The Hemavore Question
MAR/31/14
Your Villain Is My Villain’s Bitch — Using Edgy History To Deepen Your Horror Story
APR/09/14
‘Happy Birthday’ — Gotch-ya!, March 05, 2014, Issue 336, Wanted-Arrests, Manatee & Sarasota
APR/11/14
Calibrating Your Writing Gears — Notes On Writing Fiction & Nonfiction Simultaneously
APR/18/14
Harm City Financial — An Excerpt From James’ Upcoming Book Taboo You
APR/23/14
Shoebox: A Harm City Tale — Author’s Notebook #11
MAY/01/14
Pirating Self-Published Sci-Fi? — If You Are An Aspiring Writer You Need To Read This
MAY/01/14
Writing With Balls — Crafting An Authentic Action Hero
MAY/02/14
Big Water Blood Song — Author's Notebook #12: Of The Sunset World, Part One
MAY/04/14
Ghosts Of The Sunset World — Author’s Notebook #13: Of The Sunset World, Part Two
MAY/05/14
The Hero’s Stage In A Drugged Age — Ancestral Fantasy & Cultural Spirit: Notes On Various Peoples Of The Hyborian Age & The Hyborian Age By Robert E. Howard
MAY/07/14
Reading Masculine Sign — Addendum Notes On Masculine Alliance From The Upcoming Book Taboo You
MAY/08/14
Sunset Saga Print Bibliography — The Story Of Three-Rivers And The Servants Of Burnt Man: 2010-2014
MAY/13/14
Wimps, Hotheads & Head-cases — A Checklist For Breaking Minds: An Excerpt From The Upcoming Book Taboo You
MAY/21/14
The Baby Of The Lilies — Author’s Notebook #14, Fruit Of The Deceiver, Book One: The Black Horseman
MAY/23/14
Forty Hands Of Night — Author’s Notebook #15, Fruit Of The Deceiver, Book Two: The Pale Horseman
MAY/29/14
2014 Fiction Schedule — Author’s Notebook #16
JUN/04/14
Fresh Fruit Of The Cannibal Kind — Author’s Notebook #17: Expanded Free Fiction Postings
JUN/11/14
Mister Twix — Ten Minutes In The Life Of A Writer
JUN/17/14
Amazon Whore — Enjoying Something That Is Actually Made In America
JUN/20/14
Writer’s Lag — The Most Common Fiction Writer’s Dilemma
JUN/26/14
Nerd Church — Print Release Schedule
JUN/30/14
Nancy’s Book — ‘How Do I Get Started’
JUL/02/14
Seven Hells On My Heels — Fruit Of The Deceiver/Forty Hands Of Night: Concluding Sketch
JUL/07/14
‘Do Not Pet The Rednecks’ — Finding A Cookout
JUL/14/14
The Real Wet Dream — Three Alternative Approaches To Finishing The Novel
JUL/17/14
40,000 Years From Home — Part 1: The Bones Of Our Collective Soul, An Exploration Of Human Aggression
JUL/25/14
The Manual Bookmark — A System Of Notation
JUL/29/14
‘A Lot Of Plan-B’ — South Pole Station: Mega Structures Documentary
AUG/01/14
Seekers Of The Sunset World — Seven Sunset Saga Story Threads By Protagonist
AUG/04/14
A Fiction Writer Alliance — A Day’s Correspondence Between Two Novelists
AUG/04/14
Beyond The Ember Star — A Novelist’s Notes On Harnessing Your Inner Nag
AUG/07/14
Pulp Fiction Resurrection — Into The Age Of Virtual Pulps
AUG/15/14
The Roots Of Horror — Why We Are Wired For Fear
AUG/15/14
'Saving The World Sucks' — Robert E. Howard And Masculinity In Fiction
AUG/24/14
‘The Death Hug’s A-comin’’ — Hell’s Belle’s: The Trailsman #277 By Jon Sharpe
AUG/24/14
‘To Sail Beyond The World’ — The Boat Of A Million Years By Poul Anderson: Or The Difference Between Sci-fi And Fantasy
AUG/25/14
Thunder-Boy — The Transmogrification Of Three-Rivers
SEP/04/14
‘How Can This Be Unknown?’ — A Conversation With A Reader/Interview Subject
SEP/05/14
Fat Girl Dancing — The Author's Outline
SEP/10/14
Behind The Sunset Veil — Author’s Notebook #18
SEP/19/14
‘Yo Yo, Yo!’ — Can You Translate That Sentence? An Ebonic Grammatical Timeout
SEP/22/14
Ray Ray Race Relations — A Note On Our Divisive Collective
SEP/24/14
Print Releases #1-8 — Nerd Church Print Books By James LaFond: 9/24/2014
SEP/24/14
‘The Infernal Wind’ — On Pain By Ernst Junger: A Must Read For The Aspiring Science-Fiction Author
OCT/07/14
Your Reviled Alias — The Utility Of Pen Names In Postmodern Fiction
OCT/09/14
The Criminal Perspective — The Next Frontier In Science-Fiction
OCT/23/14
PunchBuggyBooks — Six New Nonfiction Print Books From James LaFond
OCT/24/14
Daughters Of Moros — Support Misogyny In Fiction
OCT/25/14
Notable Quotes — Missives From A Novelist, A Homeless Man, And A Dinner Partner
OCT/25/14
Books By James LaFond
OCT/29/14
When You're Food — James LaFond's Classic Harm City Title Is Now In Print
OCT/29/14
Black & Pale — The Omnibus E-book Edition Of Fruit Of The Deceiver And Forty Hands Of Night
NOV/05/14
‘Alert, Confident, And Solitary’ — A Foreword To Illustrating The Conquering Sword Of Conan By Gregory Manchess
NOV/07/14
Eldorado — Research And Notes For Malcolm Williams' And Ethan Saul’s Fantasy Fiction Project
NOV/12/14
To Step On God’s Toe — The Third Eye #6: The Discipline Of Fractional Autonomy
DEC/01/14
Childish Things — A Dialogue With Two Readers
DEC/01/14
Living In The Subtext — The Author Speaks With Two Millennial Readers
DEC/20/14
Most Read & Best Sellers — June-December 2014
DEC/28/14
‘We Got It All’ — Oral Carnival Sources For Hurt Stoker
DEC/28/14
‘The Night Like A Queen’ — Literary Carnival Sources For Hurt Stoker
JAN/04/15
On ‘Escaping The Secular’ — Modernity And A View Of The Death Of Art From The Literary Trenches
JAN/07/15
Winter Of Our Kind — Racial Memory In Fiction
JAN/15/15
Fictionally Yours — A Note To Serial Readers
JAN/27/15
Beating The Writer’s Blues — Letter To A Frustrated Writer
FEB/13/15
‘Should I Ever Use A Semicolon?’ — Sheri, Queries The Apostate Author About Going Against The Editorial Grain
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