Ben Raskin

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  • Cockpit Part 2

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    NOTE: It only took 10K words to realize that the second half of Cockpit was being written in third-person. Oops. Back to the drawing board. Just in case you’re interested where the second half of the novel is/was going, I’ve posted it here. Be a mensch and tell a friend. Cockpit Part 2 It sounded…

  • Shelly Belly

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    Who names a dog Shelly? It’s the most human name and it was bestowed upon the most canine of dogs. Shelly was a chocolate lab with scraggly, reddish-brown fur and crazed eyes. She was the kind of dog that walked sideways, like a coyote or feral dog on a Mexican beach. With a benign tumor…

  • Novel Novel Writing Thoughts

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    For the last year and change, I’ve decided I wanted to become a novelist. Novelist, of course, is Latin for pretentious dingbat who thinks he knows just enough about something but doesn’t have the confidence to do a non-fictional account of a story. Even though I have the authority on subjects ranging from the movie…

  • Moist

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    Passion fills the halls of Blackthorn Estates but tragedy strikes the Rufus family.

  • Cockpit

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    Author’s note: One of the best things about owning a blog is it’s a great place to workshop ideas or write insane stories without too much fear of criticism. Cockpit is definitely becoming one of those projects. Keeping with the spirit of previous books I’ve started with WordPress, I’ve started to serialize a new novel-length…