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Ending the Story
There has been too much time between my posts, I know. I would like to think it is because I am hyper focused on ending the book I'm ...
Grant Handgis
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The Evolution of a Story
Writing stream of conscious has its advantages and disadvantages. This form of writing is for poetry and fiction. Writing non-fiction is...
Grant Handgis
May 291 min read
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The speed of Writing
Fictional stories aren't much different than non-fictional accounts, if one isn't paying attention. They both share the quality of...
Grant Handgis
Apr 122 min read
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Committed Now
It is official now, having signed on to a publishing company today. That is the impetus needed to return to serious writing on the new...
Grant Handgis
Jan 311 min read
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The Writer's Progress
With the last two books now finished and in publication, I have turned my attention to the novel opening that has sat on my desktop...
Grant Handgis
Jan 11 min read
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'A Stranger in the Garden"
The work to bring this book to life is finally finished. A work I have wanted to get to for some time. The impetus for the work was...
Grant Handgis
Dec 1, 20241 min read
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Growing as a Writer
Unless a writer is the original genius at penning words to the page, all writers grow and change over time, adapt their style as they...
Grant Handgis
Nov 20, 20242 min read
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Old Work New Treatment
My earliest writing is my poetry. That dates back to 1971. It is also the first two books I published in 2010; two books with two...
Grant Handgis
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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"Going to War" ~ with the 26th Marines
Historical Biography of my Vietnam Experienc e This book has been nine years in the writing. I began this journey nine years ago, from...
Grant Handgis
Nov 6, 20242 min read
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The Interview with Logan Crawford
I have always been the guy that mostly stays in the back, quiet and observant. Being in the spotlight was never something like "Ah, this...
Grant Handgis
Aug 6, 20242 min read
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Poetry
A portion of my writing is poetry, as poetry was the first thing I began writing, even befor3 creative writing courses in college. A very...
Grant Handgis
Jul 26, 20242 min read
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Stalking the Words ~ Rousing the little Muse
I tend to feel a tinge of guilt for not posting daily, words flowing like pond water. Life keeps adding things to the list of doing. I'm...
Grant Handgis
Jul 17, 20241 min read
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A Hero of Hope
So much is going on in my life at this time, things pushing and pulling for attention. The shape to my first novel continues to evolve. I...
Grant Handgis
Jul 5, 20243 min read
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A Poetic Insight
I was given a luxurious soft leather wrapped blank book; probably four hundred pages stitched together, with this soft hide leather...
Grant Handgis
Jun 15, 20242 min read
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Beginning the Process
One of the things writers come to know is simply, writing fiction is so much harder than writing fiction. Well, yeah, Duh!. The elements...
Grant Handgis
Jun 13, 20241 min read
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A Return to Writing
I have taken a detour from my writing over the past seven years while making fine art hand coated photographic prints. The detour was...
Grant Handgis
Jun 2, 20242 min read
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