Jonathan Dyer's Blog: The Nick Temple Files, page 5

I just passed 25,000 words in the biography I’ve been writing. By my reckoning I’m now more than 25% through my first draft. That’s good progress particularly considering that I hadn’t written a word as of May 10th of this year. My trip to Mauna Kea on the Big Island seems to have jarred things loose. Before that trip, it was all research. Now, writing is a much larger percentage of my daily efforts than research, altho...

This morning I completed one section of three in Chapter Three of the biography I’m writing.  The first draft of that section comes in at just under 3,700 words. I’m shooting for 10,000 words in the chapter, so the section is about the right size. Undoubtedly I’ll cut it down as I edit, but for now it’s a good start. Additionally, I’ve scheduled August for drafting the chapter. Being this far along on only the fo...

I started drafting Chapter Three of the biography I’m writing. My modest goal is to average 350 words per day until a draft is done. The chapter, like the other nine in the book, will come in at right around 10,000 words, so it should take about a month to draft. I’ve done enough research to write the bulk of it, but I’ve found that additional points occur to me that will need to be rese...

For the past several months I’ve been working on my first piece of commercial, as opposed to academic, nonfiction. It’s a biography about a central character in the “based on actual events” streaming series my writing partner and I are developing. The idea is to market them together with the expectation that success of one could lead to success of both. Since the WGA went on strike, the streaming series has been on h...

Continuing with the spirit of “Readers over Royalties,” I’ve made the Kindle version of two of my books available for free for the next five days! My recently released collection of short stories, A String of Beads, and the first of six Nick Temple Files, Switchback, can be downloaded for free through the first of the year. So, have at it!

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The Christmas season is upon us, so it’s time to once again post an original bit of Nick Temple I composed while stationed in Berlin during the early 1980s. I wrote this bit while working in subsystem Echo at the Field Station’s intercept site on Teufelsberg. It’s one of about a dozen similar snippets that constitute the origin of the Nick Temple character.

To the left is a jpeg of A Nick Temple Christmas. I h...

Starting tomorrow, December 16th, four of my books will be available for free as ebooks for five days. The books are: The Holy Lance, a 21st century thriller about a shadowy cabal of Russian oligarchs plotting to reestablish the Romanov dynasty after locating a direct patrilineal heir of Peter the Great; Judging Paradise, a post-modern existential novella that chronicles a chaotic Thanksgiving on the fictitious Caribbean island of Sa...

On November 21st, I finished the script for the documentary I’ve been writing. The process was interesting for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the process of creating a format that made sense from a production point of view. I started by using the dual dialogue feature in Final Draft. That way I could create narration and character voice overs that would be linked to corresponding visual and audio archives. For copyrig...

It’s been a while since I posted here for the simple reason that I’ve been busy. Back in August, I was contacted and asked to provide notes on a script then in development. After submitting my notes, I was asked about working on a potential series. The work included some initial reading and research after which I collaborated with another writer on scripts for three episodes of the proposed series. The r...

For the last few days I’ve been making the eBook versions of my books available for free. Kindle Direct Publishing allows me to offer any or all titles for free for five days total once a quarter. A couple of years ago I did the same thing with three of the titles in the Nick Temple Files series. This is the first time I’ve done it with all ten of the books that I’ve published through Kindle Direct Publishing.

I don’t know how my results c...