Barbara was my first beta reader. I posted on Goodreads (my very first) and she responded almost immediately. She’s always given me excellent feedback and even acted as alpha reader for DoaCK‘s 2, 3 and short stories.
Barbara is …
Author: mitusents
Biochemist, MBA, then programmer. Now novelist, screenplay writer and hopefully director. What a strange trip it's been.
Beta reading
Every writer needs beta readers. Just like every writer needs editors. Don’t be a Keith and think you can go and query just because a couple of friends read your work and had only nice things to say. After…
Interviewing a Dominatrix
I tried quite a while to find a dominatrix I could interview for my novel idea “The Dominatrix Wore Red,” but was having lots of problems finding one that would work within my budget (that would be zero, …
The Dominatrix Wore Red
Mid May of ’17 I was at a doctor’s office and browsed through a local magazine. For whatever reason, I tend to start at the back and look at the ads and classifieds. I read an interesting personals ad for …
Yes, my website is boring!
Yes, I understand that my website is dull and lifeless. I’m a content-oriented person and absolutely hate any form of animation, music, etc. when I reach a web page. I may have (only possibly) over reacted when I created my …
Fountain
I’ve been writing my screenplays in the markup language Fountain because I find the tedium of learning to use software other people wrote to be painful and demoralizing. What I like about Fountain is I can write in any text …
Diary of a Contract Killer Query
When I first finished DoaCK (as I like to shorten it), I was very full of myself. I had a couple of friends read it and say it wasn’t too bad, so I decided I’d let the publisher clean things …
Musings on Diary of a Contract Killer, Book 1
I have a commute of 30 minutes each way. Thankfully, I rarely have any traffic and the route is mostly interstate-like so I can let my mind wander. After I felt I had some success being able to write a …
Intense First Person
Why does so much of my writing lack detail? Well there are a couple of reasons. One element is that I’m experimenting with a style of writing that I really like reading. Borrowing from science fiction and fantasy author C. …
About Keith Alan
Keith Alan is a nom de plume. Not because I’m embarrassed, but because my last name is too long to sign over and over and over again. Even though it has a cool ‘x’ in it, I decided, when fantasizing …