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  1. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    There are some good detailed suggestions here ... don't forget the power of the reader's imagination, however. You are probably better off giving a brief but evocative description of the room one that fires the imagination of what is in it rather than going into detail. I suspect that, in the...
  2. MikeKardec

    Forward Time Travel

    Wasn't DMSO used by druggies in the 1980s to get substances through their skin without punctures? I've got to read this it sounds fantastic! Interestingly, I have two friends who have had "near death" or possibly just DEATH experiences. They both reported slightly subtler versions of...
  3. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I always look at it like someone is going to ask me to actually "live" in that fictional environment for a couple of years. You have to really want to ... or be that sort of person who approaches the work in a different way and for whatever reason doesn't care. There's nowhere near enough...
  4. MikeKardec

    The Language of World War II

    Just do some research, I think you'll find that the character writes himself. I think I remember a moment early in The Last Lion where Churchill is playing with some kids and an electric train set at Christmas and he delights in setting up the trains to crash into one and other. If you find...
  5. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    I think the current season is the last. There's occasionally something interesting in this style of show and there is some nice "travel footage" of places I'll never go. But you can generally just buy the final episode of each season on iTunes and fast forward through the content of the whole...
  7. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Just delivered the novel back to the Copy Editor. For those not familiar there is sort of split between the Content and the Copy with a copy edit being more about grammar, punctuation, spelling, technical details of the story (young editors are less and less good at this even with the internet...
  8. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    Prayers Granted!
  9. MikeKardec

    Why were the Germans so bad at espionage?

    I suspect that there's a number of subtler distinctions to be made here. The early CIA relied heavily on the Gehlen Org after the war in order to spy on the Soviets. This suggests that some German spies were pretty good, or Gehlen pulled the wool over the eyes of the CIA possibly to further...
  10. MikeKardec

    The Language of World War II

    Fan - freaking - tastic!
  11. MikeKardec

    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    The Poles crippled the Soviet Army in 1920s Battle of Warsaw. Military readiness is quite the game, however: be prepared for war too early and you are outdated if it comes at you later on. There is a constant ebb and flow in the 'who is ready to take on who and how' sweepstakes
  13. MikeKardec

    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    I believe Akio Morita, the founder of Sony, was involved in scientific research during the war. He and his fellow scientists discussed the atomic bombings, but were not mystified as to what they were. Japan also was investigating the potential of atomic weapons, and knowing how they had to be...
  14. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    As a professional you'd want to transition away from your "personal/private" social media identity and into some sort of public on-line personna, like a FB "author" page. You don't want random people stalkerizing you. The publishers I have worked with are dismay-ingly inconsistent about...
  15. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I work only in traditional publishing and I have to say that Kindle-style publishing looks great from a short distance away! Do your research , however. The typical story length is shorter; that's not a requirement but it probably tends to be true because productivity is very beneficial...
  16. MikeKardec

    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    As in all the serious German victories there was an element of fruitfully exploiting the political situation. As soon as that aspect was not in the offing success became a good deal more unlikely. They should (if you were them) have stuck to what worked!
  17. MikeKardec

    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    Too many of these myths grow from post hoc composites. The "cowardly" French (a mostly American trope) probably would not exist without the existence of Vichy or the grumpy behavior of the French communists who wanted to claim they had freed France on their own, without the Allies and...
  19. MikeKardec

    Papa: Hemingway in Cuba. New Movie.

    I'd blame the "bad acting" on a seriously inept script. You just can't play the crud they are handing out in this one. The overall concept didn't suck, same with some of the technical and crafts aspects, but how anyone thought the scene construction and dialog was ready for anything other than...
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Kindle (or other reader style) Originals are in EXACTLY the same industry position as Paperback Originals were in the 1950s. It is an area that is only going to grow and be taken more seriously. As of several years ago Amazon's entire sale of books from the big five publishers (I believe this...
  21. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    That's a long story I'd love to hear, I suspect there's lots of maritime writing in my future! Are you aware of a writer named Howard Pease? He wrote an series of stories set on merchant ships in the 1930s and '40s, sort of like the Hardy Boys but a good deal more sophisticated. The...
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    November I always feel that I've pulled a rabbit out of a hat when it works. I didn't write this alone, however. It's a heavy revision of what the publisher supplied me. They set the format but it was a bit "corporate."
  23. MikeKardec

    Magnum P.I. reboot

    You are totally right. The question is, can they allow her to be amusingly un-fun. The straight "man" and the butt of jokes. We'll have to see ...
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