M.C. Barton

About M.C. Barton

M. C. Barton spent his early years in a rural mountainous region of Pennsylvania, where he learned to imagine what was behind the next tree, over the next hill … or in that dark place below that strange rocky outcrop. He began writing stories soon after he learned to put pen to paper, but knew he would have to get out and experience different kinds of people and places before he would be ready to write about the world … any world. Many years later, after a career in the Marines and other interesting experiences, he settled down on the windy coast of North Carolina, dusted off his writing desk, put aside his stack of short stories, and peered once again into those dark and mysterious places to write his first two novels Rodriguez and the Giant Killers and The Giant Killers – Curse of the Dragon.

Adventurers Wanted for NaNoWriMo Writing Challenge

By |2023-11-01T13:27:31-04:00November 7th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , |

Are you a dragon slayer? If you are reading this, there’s a good chance that the answer is – yes. People who write novels, or aspire to, are, if nothing else, adventurers. They are mixed in with the same brave souls who run marathons, climb mountains, sail blindly across strange oceans, and slay dragons. National

A Plot’s Natural Flow

By |2023-07-10T14:08:58-04:00July 11th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

How is a plot born? Does it spring from the ghostly image of a pretty girl peering through a rain-pebbled window? Does it rise from the low rumble of a night train straining up the last long slope into a sleeping town? Perhaps it grows from the echoing laughter of a child long lost to

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