flies for the Pharoh!

From https://www.topixoffbeat.com/slideshow/17933/slide33

we learn: 

"Egyptian servants were sometimes slathered in honey to keep flies away from the Pharoh."

I will have to remember this when I finally expand my 2016 novel...

my styles of writing

Name of the book: all of mine
          Author: me
    Type of book: various genres 

There are no genres beyond science fiction and fantasy.My first (and unfinished) novel featured a bit too much despair.  This novel was writing perhaps a year and a half after I left the Navy. (spring 1990). We were basically broke; going to the MD was out of reach because the co-pays were incredibly high. I basically did not have a family MD from the end of November 1988 to Spring 1997.

Back to my writing.

My 2005 novel had attempts at humour in it. My subsequent novels not so much.

One novel had suicide as a major theme. Another had drug addiction (herion) and PTSD as the major themes. I also invented two religions and played games with the Catholic Religion in two novels.

I am planning on repairing plot holes. In one novel ("Lawyer's Story"), the first chapter was basically a quick introduction. I never got a couple of important parts right and am thinking of rewriting them.

Then there are several novels with explicit sex, some of which was lesbian sex. Both my wife and her sister, who may read my novels when I get them "fixed" (if I ever do so), will be offended. Oh, well. I am reminded of Robert A. Heinlein's "Rules For Writing".

Rule 3 is the one I will be invoking: "You Must Refrain From Rewriting Except to Editorial Order"!

This sounds easy but I seem to have an endless number of "honey does" that keeps me from writing. (Somehow, I don't seem to get them done anyway.) I try to write a novel every November for "Write A Novel In A Month" and did so in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

I started to try finishing the 2009 novel in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and realized I was totally bored with finishing the 2009 novel. So, I wrote me a totally new novel in 2015. I loved writing this novel. It was fun, stressful and a challenge. I finished this novel!

You have to write a minimum of 50,000 words to complete a novel. I figured I was about half way through my story and was at about 20,000. There was no way I had enough story to "go the distance". So, I threw in a major change to the story!

Most of the best parts of this novel came from this change. I'm glad I was watching my word count. My experience is I will spend most of November well behind in my word count and then will desparately write most of the novel in the last week. Oh, well, it seems to work for me. (But not for the 2016 novel, which ended well short of 50,000 words...)

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