Category: Creative Writing

Writer’s Block? Can’t Finish Writing Your Book?

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Fiction, Motivational, Poetry

Need help to finish writing your book?  Need some encouragement or a swift kick in the butt?

Send me an email explaining your situation, and I’ll be glad to encourage you, give you some pointers, and help you bring your book-writing efforts to completion.

Sure you can read stuff online, but sometimes you just need a personal conversation to get you unstuck from the mud!

Don’t worry, I’m not trying to get your story idea or to steal it.  I already have so many storylines running through my head that I couldn’t write them all myself in two lifetimes!

In fact, I should probably hire some other ghostwriters and let them jam in the words.

So, why am I offering to help you finish your book?  I’m paying it forward.

Having successfully written, edited, and published 26 of my own books, I’m trying to repay people who encouraged me along the way by offering that encouragement to others who now need it.

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Find out more about Marty and get his books here

Muses? I don’t have muses…

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Thoughts

Muses?  I don’t have muses.  I have screaming tormenters in my head that won’t relent until I put words on a page.  Then, they leave me alone for a while.  That’s the kind of inspiration I have most days.

…Stories that explode inside my head and demand that all parts get typed out or they’ll keep pounding on the doorway of my mind.  Bloody fingers are of no account to them.  All they want is to be written, produced, and recognized.  Sure, they make themselves out to be shiny, bright ideas, but don’t turn your back on them or they’ll chew you to shreds.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather have words lining up to be written down than the other way: blank pages looking back at me like a big, empty mirror on a wall.  That would be hell – having to face that kind of painting every day.

This way, at least there’s something powerful to put on paper.  No doubt about that.

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My new fiction action & adventure story is finished!  Download it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Trevor-Dark-Rider-Assignment-ebook/dp/B00DKYER5M

Your Perspective of Reality?

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Thoughts

Recently I wrote a philosophical essay for a contest at FQXi.org:
fqxi.org/community/essay .

I realize that most people never really bother themselves with philosophical discussions or thoughts, but we all live by them.  Also, we each have to “dance with the one what brung ya’ “, meaning we have to work with what we’ve got.

My brain runs deep down the rabbit holes when it comes to philosophical reasoning, planes of reality, etc.  So… I wrote an essay and entered their contest.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it (link below) and then vote for it when it shows up on their website this month!  Enjoy!

(the essay on my page at http://www.Scribd.com/mjreep)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/150669208/Your-Perspective-of-Reality

Deciding to Send Help (chapter snippet)

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing

“Containment within the realm does not constitute the lack of necessity in reality.  Just because you have lost the ability to reason with purpose and determination, you are still under obligation to provide for the subjects who you rule,” the advisor said.

The young king stared out the window.

The advisor continued, “You have the obligation, and you have the means. “

“But what if I don’t want to?” the young king asked, rhetorically.

“Then you no longer deserve to reign.”

The young monarch quickly turned his head – “What?!”

“…and neither of those two ideas are valid options.”

The king turned his head back toward the window and said irritatedly, “Sometimes you are too harsh.”

“You asked me a question, and I answered…as your friend.”

There was another long silence.

“Thank you,” said the king.

“You’re welcome…so what are you going to do?”

“Send them help.  Pull six men from the south wall and send them out through the north tunnel an hour after nightfall.  When they reach Winterhaven, have them report to Anni-is.  He will direct them from there.”

“Yes, sire.  Oh, and yes – the view is beautiful, today.”

“Yes.  Yes, it is.”

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