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Character List for November Novel

Schlafen Ahab and Other Fiction Characters

Schlafen Ahab and Other Fiction Characters

  • Gerald Freund. Protagonist. Private detective solving a mystery in the town of Romulus, Michigan. German born, he is not on good terms with his father, due to his marriage to an imaginary Turkish woman.
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Writing on Deck – The Metafiction Myth – Pt 2

Continued from Writing on Deck – The Metafiction Myth – Pt1.

After taking her pills, she went to the coffee tap (nothing beats real coffee), but when she pushed the graphical button labeled POUR, the lovely, lovely java that …

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Writing On Deck – The Metafiction Myth – Pt 1

A room full of writers writing

A room full of writers writing

Gerald entered the writing deck where many of the other guests were already busy developing his myth. Schlafen Ahab was not visible to the naked eye, but Holger Meins walked up and down and …

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Healthcare of the Old Ones, a Dental Plan

Nyarlathotep, Mighty Administrator of Ancient Health and Dental Plans

Nyarlathotep, Mighty Administrator of Ancient Health and Dental Plans
http://dominique.signoret.perso.sfr.fr/

Gerald pulled the document from Schlafen Ahab’s drawer and read:

As a member of the Old Ones community, one of the most important benefits you’ve earned is incomprehensible health care …

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Yog-Sothoth and other Halloween Costume Rejects

A change of pace from catastrophic fiction to catastrophic Halloween costumes.

 Azathoth Costume and other Costumes Heralding My Doom

Yog-Sothoth Costume and other Costumes Heralding My Doom
http://dominique.signoret.perso.sfr.fr/

I’ve often undertaken an ambitious fiction project with multiple themes and layers of meaning, the next Moby Dick, that …

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Charting the Writing Path to Publication through the Northwest Passage

Relics of Franklin’s 1845 expedition, from the Illustrated London News, 1854
Relics of Franklin’s 1845 expedition, from the Illustrated London News, 1854

When I falter on my journey to publish some notable, award winning fiction that changes the world’s understanding of the written word and alters the cultural landscape forever, I …

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Italo Calvino Good, Unpublished Guy’s Overstructured Plots Not So Good

The Italo Calvino novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler, opened me up to a completely different type of story-telling. First, the story is written in the second person point of view. You know the second person, that point …

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