Mark A. Santomieri's Blog – January 2010 Archive (5)

This is the book I have been writing forever. It's where I go when I need to take time away from the manuscript that I am currently in polishing mode on. This is just the first two characters, but pivotal. There are three other pivotal characters. This is an experiment in head hopping times ten.

"Feeback good," grunts Marco. "Pardon format, ooo, ooo."

I've got another 30,000 words on it, and I will present more if you are at all interested.

My… Continue

Hey all! I've been away for some time, but I have something new to contribute.



As a new year starts to progress at pace, I want to make a few things clear to the aspiring writer.

First of all, DO NOT EBOOK! It is a quick trip to being ripped off.

Secondarily, find an agent. Learn how to write query letters for your "baby" manuscript.

Thirdly, be persistent. Don't be afraid and get used to rejection slips.

The most modest of ways, these days, is to proactively try… Continue

Hey folks!

This is a children's/tween's story I have been working on forever, it seems. Here's a snippet. Any thoughts and or critical comments will be greatly appreciated. Please forgive the justification and formatting issues. I am still trying to figure the best way to post previously written documents.















TRILLA AND THE MYSTIC TROLL

BY M.A Santomieri



CHAPTER ONE



Trilla was only just about the size of boggy wallower… Continue

Hey all!

I have just a short note on the concept of writer's block.

It is a figment of your imaginations. Or perhaps I should restate that: it is a function of your imaginations.

When we as writers cease to imagine, we cease to function as writers. We fall back, as it were, into the mundane world.

It is a temporary, although sometimes problemsome, occurence from which every writer at one point or another suffers.

Take a few breaths, stretch and rethink what the story is… Continue

Here is Justine from Free Clinic in one of her better moods.

This is very late in the story, so let me fill in a bit.

Justine has already killed her psychotic husband, a ruthless warmonger with an hallucinated assistant that he called Bingo. He was also a scourge to our heros and heroines throughout the story. She has by now fled to presumed sanctuary at the central HQ of the scientific "resistance" that is trying to save the planet. She is in a foul state of mind, after… Continue