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Serpent’s Smile Is Going Away

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Posted on August 15, 2017 by Ed Skinner

The first draft of Serpent’s Smile will be removed from this website on September 15th. There are several reasons for this. A re-write is now in progress. Commercial book publishers avoid works that are available elsewhere, especially when free. The … Continue reading →

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Printing of Preliminary Edition

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Posted on April 8, 2017 by Ed Skinner

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Printing of the preliminary edition of Serpent’s Smile is underway. This is a limited run, not otherwise available to the general public. Copies are destined for readers with  technical expertise in specific areas–explosives, for example–and to select individuals within the … Continue reading →

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Critical Reader Input

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Posted on January 24, 2017 by Ed Skinner

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Serpent’s Smile has been extensively edited since the first draft appeared here. Several tens of thousands of words have been cut. But writers are myopic; they see only what’s at the end of their nose, and even then they tend … Continue reading →

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Revision Complete, Reviews Begin

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Posted on December 28, 2016 by Ed Skinner

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Line-edits and revisions are complete. My first novel, Serpent’s Smile, now enters the review process. More than 20,000 words have been removed to tighten-up the story. Back-story has been chopped and scattered for better flow, or condensed for clarity. It’s … Continue reading →

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Adverb’s Disease

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Posted on September 22, 2016 by Ed Skinner

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Beware! My writing is afflicted with a horrible disease. Adverb’s Disease shows as weak little words attached to verbs. They add nothing to the story and just take up space and time. A pure waste of ink! Diagnosed by one of the … Continue reading →

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Serpent’s Smile, Chapter One, Part One Reading

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Ed Skinner
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The A, B, C, D and F of Editing Fiction

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Posted on August 15, 2016 by Ed Skinner

Here’s the process I’ll be trying out as I edit the nearly 500 pages of double-spaced text in my first draft. First, some definitions using the grading system we all learned in school. Fiction is built with several parts: Action … Continue reading →

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Last Chapter Goes Up (Appears) Saturday Morning

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Posted on August 3, 2016 by Ed Skinner

The climax of “Serpent’s Smile” will appear early Saturday morning. If you’ve been reading along, you will be pleased to find out how it ends — everything will be posted as of then. The story includes 99,136 words. [550,238 characters!] … Continue reading →

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First Draft Complete

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Posted on July 24, 2016 by Ed Skinner

In a bagel shop in Santa Barbara California, I finished the first draft of the final chapter. It will be posted along with two others over the next three weeks. Work began last October with the outline. A month later, … Continue reading →

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Two To Get Ready

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Posted on July 4, 2016 by Ed Skinner

In two chapters, I’ll be done with the first draft of Serpent’s Smile. I won’t try your patience with a list of my exposed stupidities (“Things I Learned”). That’s for me to know and not do again. Instead, I’ll quote one of … Continue reading →

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