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Blood and Guts and Brains

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Writing about those who stand in defense of their country is a challenge. If you’re close to your subject, if you’ve lived it, then you may have trouble stepping back to gain perspective. If you have never served, then you have to gain currency with terminology, basic tactical concepts, and may never [...]

Camaraderie at the San Diego Writers Conference, alas.

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This last January I had the privilege of attending the San Diego Writers Conference, held at the newly upgraded Doubletree Hotel in Mission Valley. The venue was beautiful, the machine of the Writers Conference hummed along flawlessly, and the very best parts were the people.

The camaraderie of writers [...]

Sangria Summit: Call for Action

Life in the military has been characterized as long periods of waiting patiently, punctuated by moments of heart-pounding action. A writer’s lot is not near as hazardous, but does involve working steadily, training yourself to know your genre and your craft, and then that moment of decisive action when you present a [...]

Calling All Military Writers: Sangria Summit

Have you ever served in the military and want to wrap your experiences in the covers of a book?

Perhaps you just want to build a world with heroes and battles within? Do you know how to write about the fog of war, the smoke and blood of conflict, or use the terminology and [...]