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    zette
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      1. A Plague of Rats
      2. Ada Nish Pura
      3. Beware the Wrath of Bunny Hopper
      4. Circe’s Gifts
      5. Connor of Northgate
      6. Cougar: Home Run (4)
      7. Danlyn’s Vision
      8. Darkenss Falls
      9. Devlin’s Team 1: Dancer
      10. Devlin’s Team 10: Nightmares and Monsters
      11. Devlin’s Team 2: Farewell to Summer
      12. Devlin’s Team 3: Medusan Mutation
      13. Devlin’s Team 4: Missing Persons
      14. Devlin’s Team 5: The Aldebaran Stop Over
      15. Devlin’s Team 6: Legend
      16. Devlin’s Team 7: Pavo
      17. Devlin’s Team 8: Wolf Pack
      18. Devlin’s Team 9: Honor Bound
      19. Don’t Go Home for the Holidays
      20. Dyfed and Shannon 1
      21. Elves in Space
      22. Eye of Orantis
      23. Faneh-Thenyal 2: Return to Faneh-Thenyal
      24. Farstep Station
      25. Feather in the Wind
      26. Fighting for Strangers 1: Prince of the North
      27. Fighting for Strangers 2: Journey to Rosewood
      28. Futuristic
      29. Glory Dreams Eternity: Glory
      30. Home: Year 1: Crash
      31. In the Service of the Queen
      32. In the Shadow of Giants
      33. Infiltartion
      34. IWC 1: Vita’s Vengence
      35. IWC 2: Badlands
      36. IWC 3: Rat Pirates
      37. Journey to Winter
      38. Kat Among the Pigeons
      39. Legend Makers1: Kinship
      40. Legend of Tom Luck
      41. Living Among Them
      42. Living in Caine’s Hold
      43. Loyalty Treason Honor
      44. Mirrors
      45. Mirrors 2: Reflections
      46. Muse
      47. Newsline 1: News from the Front
      48. Newsline 2: Star Bright
      49. Octavian of Keris Station
      50. Of Things Dreamed
      51. Outsiders: Sleeper Awake
      52. Paid in Gold and Blood
      53. Peri: Gift
      54. Peri: Journey
      55. Progressions
      56. Resurrection 1: Chance and Change
      57. Resurrection 2: Trouble and Trust
      58. Ruins
      59. Second Chance
      60. Serendipity Blues
      61. Shepherd Boy
      62. Silky 1: Silky
      63. Silky 2: Lord of The Land
      64. Silky 3: The Queen’s Champion
      65. Singer & St. Jude 1: Lost Cause
      66. Singer & St. Jude 1:Bad Connections
      67. Singer & St. Jude 1:Just Killing Time
      68. Singer & St. Jude 1:Rachel Weeps
      69. Sol-Altair
      70. Sooma 1
      71. Speaking of Shadows
      72. Storm
      73. Summerfield 1: Summer Storm
      74. Summerfield 2: Autumn Winds
      75. Summerfield 3: Winter Warning
      76. Summerfield 4: Spring Break
      77. Tales from the Grey, Season 1
      78. Tales of Tygen: Water/Stone/Light
      79. The Dark Staff: Aubreyan
      80. The Dark Staff: Brendan’s Song
      81. The Dark Staff: Crystal and the Stars
      82. The Dark Staff: Dacey’s Dream
      83. The Dark Staff: Eliora’s World
      84. The Dark Staff: Freedom and Fame
      85. The Dark Staff: Gathering
      86. The Dark Staff: Hope in Hell
      87. The Good People of Coralville
      88. The Path 1
      89. The Servant Girl
      90. The Time and the Place
      91. Touched by the Wild
      92. Waiting for the Last Dance
      93. While the Queen Sleeps
      94. Whispers of the Past
      95. Whispers of Winterwood
      96. Working for the Guild
      97. Written in the Sand
      98. Xenation: Draw the Line

      Some of these novels (and I have even more shorter works) are far better than others. That’s the way it should be. You learn by writing and trying new things. If you don’t write, see what you don’t think works, and try something new the next time, you simply will not get better. All of these novels are completed in at least the first draft and every one of them had their own problems and taught me new techniques. I am within a few thousand words of finishing novel #99 and I’ll start #100 in about a week.

      You learn how to write better by writing. Not by talking about it and not by poking at stories and never finishing them. Writing is more than creating a perfect line. All the lovely lines in the world will not make a book if you don’t have a plot, a start and a finish.

      So finish things. Examine them and figure out what you can do differently the next time. Give yourself a chance to learn. All art takes practice, and in story creation that means more than simply writing a few words. You need to learn how to tell the entire tale. So go apply yourself to finishing things and learning from them.

      #247106
      MarFisk
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        Absolutely, though I’d add you learn to write better by writing and editing. I don’t have as many as you do, but I have many more rough drafts than I have polished stuff and the more I edit, the more I learn what to do better in the next rough draft :).

        She remakes mechanical devices, and he dreams of becoming a steamship captain in The Steamship Chronicles. Book 1 is free in eBook.
        https://margaretmcgaffeyfisk.com/the-steamship-chronicles/

        #247107
        Ashe Elton Parker
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          38 Pirate Gold Coins

          You amaze me, Zette. You also give me something to aspire to! LOL

          Ashe Elton Parker
          "Just love me, fear me, do as I say, and I will be your slave." ~ David Bowie as Jareth in Labyrinth
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          #247108
          Writergirl04
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            Thanks for the inspiration, zette! And also for the necessary kick in the butt I need to seriously return to writing. I’ve been slacking lately.

            #247114
            zette
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              126 Pirate Gold Coins

              Oh, that’s a good point! I keep forgetting that some people consider writing and editing as different things. For me, it is all part of writing a book.

              #247132
              MarFisk
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                Well, the line between them was much more distinct when I hated one and loved the other…but I’ve matured a bit since then ;).

                She remakes mechanical devices, and he dreams of becoming a steamship captain in The Steamship Chronicles. Book 1 is free in eBook.
                https://margaretmcgaffeyfisk.com/the-steamship-chronicles/

                #247109
                KatsInCommand
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                  Awesome! How long has it taken you to write all these?

                  I agree – finishing things is really important. Finishing the first draft isn’t good enough either. Finishing as in revise and get them out the door where someone else can see it.

                  #247133
                  zette
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                    126 Pirate Gold Coins

                    A couple of these are from back in my teens (and there are others I didn’t list because I don’t think I could ever rewrite them into anything presentable). Most of them are from the last twenty years, though.

                    #247110
                    djmills
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                      Heinlein’s Rules in action. Well done.:-)

                      #247111
                      Keeley
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                        “Most are from the last twenty years.”

                        Wow. Just…wow.

                        Author of a romance between Loki and Sigyn, a dragon shapeshifter series, and a romantic fantasy with forbidden magic and a mysterious minstrel. (More at amykeeley.wordpress.com)

                        Also writes space opera/sociological science fiction under the name Z.A. Waterstone. (zawaterstone.wordpress.com)

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