http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/ Independent Authors Guild Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:26:54 GMT Lloyd Lofthouse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8631 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8631 Lloyd Lofthouse www.mysplendidconcubine.com 2008 London Book Festival honorable mention in fiction 2009 San Francisco Book Festival honorable mention in Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:26:25 GMT Lloyd Lofthouse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8630 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8630 I have read a number of Bernard Cornwell novels (like the Sharpe series) and, I have read (in his words) where he often juggles the time-line to create a Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:30:38 GMT janetelaine smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8629 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8629 John, Have you ever tried using a time line instead of an outline? I find it works much better for me when doing historicals. I make a page long (the wide way) Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:25:30 GMT John Nuetzel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8628 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8628 Chester, you are so right, always begin two chapters or so back. It really shines things up. Isn't it the nature of the fiction that dictates the degree of Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:35 GMT Edward C. Patterson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8627 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8627 from the Acknowledgements of Surviving an American Gulag as my July 4th offering. "Acknowledgements - Surviving an American Gulag is a work long in the Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:48:04 GMT Steve Knutson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8626 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8626 FYI ... From: published@... [mailto:published@...] On Behalf Of Outskirts Press Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 9:11 PM To: Steven Subject: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:52:32 GMT Lloyd Lofthouse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8625 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8625 That's the beauty of fiction. We can alter the past at will.  Well stated. Thanks. Lloyd Lofthouse www.mysplendidconcubine.com 2008 London Book Festival Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:17:35 GMT Peggy Ullman Bell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8624 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8624 http://podbram.blogspot.com/2009/07/sappho-sings.html Peggy Jay   www.peggyullmanbell.com   "No matter how contemporary you think your novel is, it's all Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:48:47 GMT janetelaine smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8623 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8623 I'm very much the same way. I hadn't heard that term before either, but it fits. I think my funniest experience was with Recipe for Murder, my second Patrick Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:44:30 GMT Chester Campbell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8622 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8622 Thanks for the blog reference, Janet. It's always interesting to find other authors who do as I do. I hadn't heard the term "flying into the mist" before. I've Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:43:11 GMT Lloyd Lofthouse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8621 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8621 "Some of you are wondering where to start without an outline. Flying into the mist isn't for every writer, just as outlining and meticulous plotting aren't for Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:52:54 GMT janetelaine smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8620 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8620 http://fivescribes.blogspot.com/     Start your New Year with news from JES here  Check out videos here Love is in the air! Check it out  here All new: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:55:08 GMT nailah robinson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8619 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8619 I just ran into an old friend a couple of days ago, and he told me about this website magazine thing he was trying to get started. I agreed to do an interview Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:53:04 GMT janetelaine smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8618 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8618 Funny! Thanks for the explanation. Must be a DUH day in my brain. Janet     Start your New Year with news from JES here  Check out videos here Love is in Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:38:01 GMT Kris Jackson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8617 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAG-members/message/8617 That's what I mean by the use of language. He said "Green Bay Packard," a reference to both the football team and the large car, last produced in 1958. A bit