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How I Chose The Book Title: “A Witness To Murder”

January 12, 2015 By Rick Leave a Comment

How I Chose The Book Title: "A Witness To Murder"If you’re like me then you have to have the perfect title for your book, right? And sometimes that title is the inspiration of your story and you keep it through all the drafts or sometimes you might use a working title, knowing that you need to come up with a final one later.

With my second book in the U.S. Marshal series I actually started with “Empty Town” but as I developed the outline I knew that the title needed to change.

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How To Stay Focused On Your Writing: Oh Look, A Butterfly!

August 11, 2014 By Rick Leave a Comment

How To Stay Focused On Your WritingI was recently asked how do you stay focused on your writing with all of the other distractions around us. Wow, not as easy to answer as I thought. But finding the discipline, the focus, to write is a must if you are serious about a writing career or else your dreams will go up in a puff of manuscript smoke.

Oops, be right back, there’s a monarch butterfly in the garden!

While somewhat tongue-in-cheek, distractions such as butterflies, screamo bands, and ice cream all too easily take us away from our story. Somehow we must find ways to drown out everything distracting (families included) and pound loudly on those computer keyboards forgetting and ignoring everything else.

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