Quick Writing Can Still Result in Quality Writing:

by Roland Yeomans, @rxena77

Isn’t Elizabeth brave and gracious to let me borrow her blog for the day?  Give her a hand by commenting at the end of this post, will you?

“I never travel without my diary.  One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

Let me tell you of some sensational reading that I am asking you NOT to read.  Yes, this is my first stop on my DON’T BUY MY BOOK Blog Tour!

I mean, if you buy it, you’ll just encourage me.

You know how many thousands of Indie Books are published EVERY month?

As Midnight, my kitten, says, “More than the grains of litter in my box, and most smell as bad, too!”

That is the fault of those writers who do not hold themselves to the fire of doing their best with every sentence.

We can write good novels faster than we think we can.  The past has shown it.

“If you’re going to doubt something, doubt your own limits.” -Don Ward

We can do more than we think we can.

James Horner was given TWO WEEKS to compose the soundtrack to ALIENS.

Two freaking weeks.  Yet, he wrote music that is so stirring that it is still used in movie trailers to this day.

Sam Watterson wrote and drew CALVIN & HOBBES daily for 10 years straight, setting the comic strip world on its ear with his originality.

Think of the creativity involved to craft a world that still holds our hearts and minds 21 years later.

In 1943, Steinbeck served as a World War II war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and worked with the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA).

During the war, Steinbeck accompanied the commando raids of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.’s Beach Jumpers program, which launched small-unit diversion operations against German-held islands in the Mediterranean – all the while writing daily dispatches.

At one point, he accompanied Fairbanks on an invasion of an island off the coast of Italy and helped capture Italian and German prisoners, using a Tommy Gun.

His daily dispatches are works of art.  Read ONCE THERE WAS A WAR and discover this for yourself.

THE GRAPES OF WRATH?  He wrote that in FIVE months shortly after the death of his brother-in-law,

and it was a time in his life when he was plagued by doubts about the prospect of war and worries over the sale of his house in California.

So I write two original books a year?  They both can still be quality.  And you can write multiple quality books a year, too.

My Quality Book for Year’s End is a mix of surprising true historical facts inter-mixed with Steampunk intrigue, betrayal, love, revenge, and death-traps straight out of GAMES OF THRONES.

Doubt me?  There is a chapter in it entitled, RED WEDDING, which occurs in the catacombs beneath the infamous Rouen Cathedral,

Involving Sidhe, the werewolves of France, and the deadly Worms of the Earth.

Oh, did I mention that there are dragons at the beginning and, of course, at the end in a dizzying, wild fight above the Eiffel Tower with the Sire of All Germanic Dragons and his coven.

And this is a story of a honeymoon!

But when the new husband is Samuel McCord, undead Texas Ranger, and his bride is the immortal alien Empress, Meilori Shinseen, what else can you expect?

Well, you can expect:

An insane Abraham Lincoln, 11 year old Nicola Tesla, Captain Nemo, Mark Twain at the start of his fabulous career, a vampire Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious Swan Maiden, the cursed Lucanus (the still alive St. Luke), the Sidhe High Queen, Oyggia …

Clashes of Vampire Kingdoms, intrigues of Louis Napoleon, deadly tours of the Louvre with its hidden chambers, and so much more.

What are you waiting for?  Buy my book!

Yes, I know the name to this blog tour is DON’T BUY MY BOOK.  Haven’t you heard of Reverse Psychology?

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Roland Yeomans was born in Detroit, Michigan.  But his last memories of that city are hub-caps and kneecaps since, at the age of seven, he followed the free food when his parents moved to Lafayette, Louisiana.  The hitch-hiking after their speeding car from state to state was a real adventure.  Once in Louisiana, Roland learned strange new ways of pronouncing David and Richard when they were last names.  And it was not a pleasant sight when he pronounced Comeaux for the first time.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in English Education and a Master’s degree in Psychology.  He has been a teacher, counselor, book store owner, and even a pirate since he once worked at a tax preparation firm.

So far he has written thirty-four books.  You can find Roland at his web page: www.rolandyeomans.blogspot.com  or at his private table in Meilori’s.  The web page is safer to visit.  But if you insist on visiting Meilori’s, bring a friend who runs slower than you.