Tag: Novel
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Critical Mass
My latest novel has achieved critical mass. I’m no longer inventing the figments of a void, but rather connecting the last pieces of a puzzle with finite space to go astray. All creative energy is bent toward that one objective.
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Mission Statement
Turns out I do have a podcast.
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Good Soul Stuff
It surprised me to learn that talking about writing might be a remedy for stagnating creativity
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In the Pathless Woods: Revising
Three years after writing a novel called The Fortress for my eight-year-old son, I’m taking on the fourth revision. It’s got a new title, In the Pathless Woods, inspired by Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the 18th century narrative poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron. Byron’s verse replaces a simple placeholder I’d inserted at the time, filler…
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Essential Non-Essential
Shutdown 2018 continues unabated, and so do excerpts from life at the government’s Bureau of Government Intelligence and Execution—better known as BOGIE. What happens when DC’s ‘Fed Buffet’ closes its doors—and its payroll—on the public servants who work to prevent America’s next tragedy? Furloughed, you say? Is this what you signed up for? “How do you arrive at…
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P-A-T-C-H-W-O-R-K-S
America’s next gun massacre is inevitable. Unless one government intern makes a miracle of his odd jobs in Washington, DC. This week.
Ben East Books 