Oh, the horror!
It's really hard to believe that my debut novel, Far From Grace, is now only eleven months away from publication! People have asked me if...
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R J Clark
Oct 2, 20191 min
Red alert! Official title reveal!
This is not a drill! I repeat: THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The time has come to reveal the title of my debut novel. Awww, yeah! Chick a bow wow....
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R J Clark
Aug 27, 20192 min
Hey, how you doin'?
It's been a bit since I posted a new blog, but things have been anything but uneventful over here! Let's catch up. Shall we? Last year,...
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R J Clark
Aug 27, 20191 min
Writing Book of the Month: Summer
"Have You Eaten Grandma?" by Gyles Brandreth HYEG is a grammar and usage book that's an awful lot of fun to read. It's not very often...
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R J Clark
Feb 12, 20192 min
Writing Book of the Month: February
"Dreyer's English" by Benjamin Dreyer Benjamin Dreyer is the executive managing editor and copy chief at Random House, which makes his...
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R J Clark
Jan 15, 20192 min
Inspiration versus Perspiration
Art isn't easy, but is it one part inspiration and ninety-nine parts perspiration, or the other way around? How would you define...
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R J Clark
Dec 31, 20181 min
Set your 2019 goals now!
2019 is now less than four hours away — if you're on the East Coast in the US, like me! Let's put the setbacks and failures of 2018...
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R J Clark
Dec 30, 20185 min
6 things I learned writing my first novel
Or, How I Wrote My First Novel Without Losing My Sanity!* (most of my sanity) This year, over the course of four arduous months, I wrote...
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R J Clark
Dec 27, 20182 min
Writing Book of the Month: December
"Story Trumps Structure" by Steven James If November's writing book of the month was a gift for the plotters out there, then December's...
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R J Clark
Dec 3, 20182 min
Favorite bit of writing advice?
The work is hard. Let's be honest — it's really hard. How many times have you sat down and toiled away on several pages only to throw...
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R J Clark
Nov 15, 20182 min
What are you willing to give up?
Aside from "writer's block," the most cited cause for not writing among writers is... drum roll, please... "I just don't have time to...
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R J Clark
Nov 12, 20182 min
Writing Book of the Month: November
"Save the Cat! Writes a Novel" by Jessica Brody I will always have a soft-spot for Save the Cat! and the late Blake Snyder. For the...
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R J Clark
Oct 31, 20188 min
TRICK: a new 'Halloween' short story
TRICK November 1. 2:38am. Vic spotted the older man first, zeroing in on the limping fellow as their van drove down the deserted Main...
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R J Clark
Oct 31, 20181 min
"The Little Things" is now available for free on Amazon for Halloween!
Happy Halloween, and happy birthday, Kane! To celebrate Kane's first birthday, you can now read The Little Things: a tiny terror for free...
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R J Clark
Oct 30, 20182 min
Halloween special! Ready to meet the man called Kane?
Kane was an odd-looking fellow — as tall as Geoff was short, gaunt, with equally long, thin extremities. His skin was almost as creamy...
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R J Clark
Oct 29, 20182 min
Writing Book of the Month: October
"On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King Let me preface this review by saying I love Stephen King. Like so many others, he is...
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R J Clark
Oct 29, 20181 min
You can call me 'Belle'
I completed the second draft of my debut novel "The Belles of St. Mary's" over the weekend. What a rush! Three-hundred and forty-seven...
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R J Clark
Sep 17, 20182 min
Let's grab a coffee and chat
I love coffee. Truly, I do. I love how it smells. I love how it tastes. I drink it hot or cold, and every temperature in between. Give me...
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R J Clark
Sep 15, 20182 min
Writing Book of the Month: September
Once a month I will recommend a book about the craft of writing. For me, books about writing always inspire me to write and my hope is...
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R J Clark
Sep 15, 20183 min
There's no such thing as writer's block!
I'm going to say something very controversial if you're a writer—there's no such thing as writer's block. There. I said it. And I'll say...
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