Notes: John Pine

John Pine was started as a sort of pointless project over on my other blog called Fiction Friday.  I moved all of those posts over here, so some of you may have already read those.  They are Parts 1-3.  Part 4 was new as of yesterday and today Part 5 (new) is up.   Out of everything over there, the John Pine stuff will be my priority until it hits that magical 35,000 word mark where I can pare it down to a respectable novel and shop it out to an agent and eventually to a publisher.  This is my no shit shot at getting a novel published. 

 Once I’m done with it, and I hope to God that is soon, I will open content discussion up, but for now, let’s keep it technical.  All the pages have a comment box good for notes on spelling errors, grammatical snafus, etc.  Any sort of criticism is welcome, but keep in mind, I am really only concerned with mechanics right now.  If you are here, it is because you were in some way invited by me, so feel free to get in there and tear it up.  Anyone who makes an autobiographical connection between me and Mr. Pine will be banned for life.  That’s what I’ve heard the most, and frankly, it is irritating.  Almost irritating enought to make me give up on it.  Just because he talks funny and has a DD-214 does not mean he is me. 

As a note, I am going to submit the Highwayman  story (part of an ongoing project I am ignoring called Immortal) to something here shortly.  I need to clean it up and get it ready, but it will be submitted.  I have thought about the Writers of the Future contest, but am afraid that a SciFi book deal will pigeon hole me later.  Any input on that story is welcome as well, including possible places to shop it and pointers on how to get it out there. 

Thanks.