Novel Excerpts

Western novel excerpts revisited — how I got the idea, what I’m doing with it: When I posted the first excerpt from my Western novel, I made a comment or two about the genre and said it was more a “vanity” thing than anything else. [...]
Second excerpt of Western novel — comments, please?: At one point, I had a blog started called “Tales of the Old West.” I posted this and the earlier excerpt which I posted here yesterday. I had some links [...]
Different novel, first excerpt — your opinions, please?: Many years ago, I decided I wanted to write Western novels. These days it’s really hard to make a buck writing Westerns — or as they are sometimes know now, [...]
Novel excerpts revisited — where to find story ideas and where I found this one: I posted a couple of excerpts from a novel manuscript I was working on a couple of years ago. Mostly I was hoping to get some comments, reactions, criticism, or [...]
Here’s the next part of that excerpt from my novel manuscript: I hope posting that novel excerpt earlier today was useful to some of you. I guess posting the next section of it is probably just vain. Seriously, though, I hope [...]
Just for fun — comment, please, on the opening of a novel I started a few years ago: I’ve mentioned from time to time that I’ve got some novel manuscripts started and gathering dust on my hard drive shelves. Here’s the opening scene of one. All criticisms, critiques, [...]