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The Importance of Every First Line - Cliff Hall
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Software Architect, Author, Musician, Dude. The Importance of Every First Line. May 11, 2015. May 11, 2015. It was the best of lines, it was the worst of lines. Most writers are aware that the first line, paragraph, and page of a story must be perfect. Compared to the rest of the words in the work, these demand an inordinate amount of attention. And with good reason. So, your reader has made it through the checkout with your book in hand (or electronically whisked through the ether to their reading devic...
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Latest Coding Projects - Cliff Hall
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Software Architect, Author, Musician, Dude. Is a tough-love book review project begun by Canadian author and editor Jefferson Smith. This reader-reaction companion app, is a collaboration between Jefferson and myself. He was the consulting editor for my first novel, and came up with the idea. And wrote about the process of integrating with Slack for user feedback. The app works equally well on a phone as on a 27-inch screen or anything in between. Top Players are shown with their own activity charts, and...
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On Endings - Cliff Hall
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Software Architect, Author, Musician, Dude. April 14, 2015. April 25, 2015. The Ending: Sweat this above all. So, you have crafted a terrific book with an engaging plot, memorable characters and settings, and prose that flows like honey. Don’t let a bad ending be all the reader remembers about your story. Did the happy couple eventually get married? Did they ever find their lost puppy? The answers to those questions may seem utterly insignificant in the face of whether they escaped the clutches of the po...
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On Writing
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Software Architect, Author, Musician, Dude. Order Your Copy of Tangential Now! February 4, 2016. October 23, 2016. UPDATE: The pre-order period is over, but you can now pick up a copy in Kindle or Print here: http:/ www.amazon.com/Tangential-Dark-Matter-Highway-Book-ebook/dp/B01AR8LLG6 The 6×9 trade paperback weighs 3 pounds. Goes ‘thunk’ when you lay it down. Goes ‘whoosh’ when you read it. Writing Tools: Ngram Viewer and Define. October 3, 2015. November 4, 2015. How to Create a Page-Turner. When write...
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May 2015 - Cliff Hall
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Software Architect, Author, Musician, Dude. The Importance of Every First Line. May 11, 2015. May 11, 2015. It was the best of lines, it was the worst of lines. Most writers are aware that the first line, paragraph, and page of a story must be perfect. Compared to the rest of the words in the work, these demand an inordinate amount of attention. And with good reason. If the cover of Read More …. Read any good Sci-Fi lately? How To Nuke a Firebase DB and All Its Users. News from the Dark Matter Highway.
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On Life
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Software Architect, Author, Musician, Dude. Life, the Universe, and Everything. The (Inevitable) Great Robo-Truck Robbery. June 23, 2016. September 2, 2016. There has been a lot of talk recently about self-driving trucks and how they’re going to put (as one estimate has it) at least 3.5 million people out of a job. My step-father was a trucker, and some of my early memories are of going on trips here and there with him. Raised in the rural southeast Read More …. September 22, 2015. November 10, 2015.
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