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Writeritis - the novel-writing bug

The best teachers are the books and poems and plays of good writers. There were many more as well. The ones I did not read, and whom I recommend no one read, are those who wrote sloppy and lazy prose and who are a contagion if you are influenced by them. I published my first short story when I was nineteen. I wrote on my own for two years and met many dead ends and received many rejection slips, then I enrolled in a fiction writing class with William Hamlin and a poetry class with John Neihardt at the University of Missouri. I learned in weeks what I could not have learned in years through trial and error.

For that reason, I recommend that a beginning writer find a group, either at a community college or university or city library or church, it doesn't matter, so he can share his work with others. A good writer is a good listener. The great dialog of the world is all around us, if we'll only listen. In similar fashion, the great stories are in situations we see everyday, just as the great heroes, the real gladiators, are usually standing next to us in the grocery checkout.

At some point we start to send off our work. When I was twenty I worked on an offshore exploration rig, ten days off and five days on.


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Before I left shore on the hitch, I mailed off all my manuscripts. Ten days later, they would be waiting for me in my rented mailbox with a rejection notice.

Writeritis: The Novel-Writing Bug

But I learned a system I've kept all these years, namely, that no manuscript stays at home more than thirty-six hours. If you keep a manuscript at home, its failure is guaranteed. You write about what you know. You also write about injustice and you write to make the world a better place. I believe talent comes from outside oneself. I also believe it's a votive gift.

When an artist claims credit for it, it's usually taken from him and given to someone else. That's why I believe humility in a writer is a necessity rather than a virtue.


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I know of no better life than that of a writer. My father used to say a wise man should fear approval and seek excoriation.

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Like Robert Frost, I think my father had it right. A great artist finds his voice and then uses it in ways others do not. It's the iconoclast who leads us away from ourselves. We address ourselves to what is best in people. She has published 15 other books set in a variety of genres and times, including crime novels, spy books, Elizabethan dramas and books for children. She has also published more books that were written in Doglish, dog language. Chisholm, which starts with A Famine of Horses and ends with the seventh book, A Chorus of Innocents, published in This includes the first novel Assassin all the way to the twelfth book, Loot, published in Sir Robert Carey is a brave and emotional noble who finds himself hopelessly in love with a married woman, Elizabeth, while the Lady Grace series tell of a girl detective who is a maid of honor to who other than the Queen herself Queen Elizabeth.

She also penned the characters of Simon Ames and David Becket, a Jewish codebreaker and an ex-soldier.

Publication Order of Lugh Mac Romain Series

With a character for every series and always something new to bring to the table, Finney has long been a valuable part of the writing world. He has come to Carlisle in the year in order to take up his new job as the Deputy Warden of the West March as a way to be closer to his true love. His true love is a married woman and he has taken up the position as the Deputy Warden to be nearer to the woman whom he is obsessed with but also at the same time to get a little further away from the creditors who might want to make some trouble for him.

He can really use the break.

Books by Patricia Finney (Author of Firedrake's Eye)

Unfortunately, the universe has other plans. At this point, Sir Robert must figure out whether the greater threat is outside his world or within.

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The Scots are scheming outside the city walls, but there is also quite a bit of unrest among the English garrison. This book has been called intriguing and rustling with high ambition and a romp through roguish courtiers in a medieval setting. It is the first book in the Sir Robert series and sets the stage for a series of engaging and enjoyable hijinks in the sixteenth century. Sir Robert has pout horse thieves and troublemakers alike to bed, and had everything all sorted out for a while.

The Grahams are planning on causing him trouble as they are going to kidnap Elizabeth on the way home to see her husband. Sir Robert is the only one who can stop them, but before he can do so, a man is murdered. In fact, the man who was murdered was one that he just recently got fired from his job as paymaster to the Carlisle garrison. So when Sir Robert comes back and finds Barnabus slung into jail for the very crime, and with his enemy Sir Richard Lowther planning to have his arrested for planning the murder, he has no choice but to find his way out of it.

Not only that, but Sir Robert is finding that everyone is actually going along and believing the story that he did it— even more disturbing. As Sir Robert handles the murder inquiry and dives into a tale of lust and love, greed, plotting, and deception, he is forced to confront his feelings for the darling love of his life and whether he will hide them much longer. The series has been praised as one of the top mystery series ever penned. If you see one missing just send me an e-mail below.


  1. Publication Order of David Becket and Simon Ames Series.
  2. Books by Patricia Finney.
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