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UPDATE #6 — The Night the Book Found Its Face
There’s always a moment in every project where the story stops being “an idea” and becomes an object — something with weight, tone, texture, a pulse. For WOLVENBOUND: HIS DARKEST HUNGER, that moment finally hit tonight. And it wasn’t during outlining.It wasn’t during character-building.It wasn’t during the Grammar-for-the-Dead universe talk or the Axis metaphysics.It wasn’t…
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The Secret Thread Beneath Wolf Wounds – Update #5
(How It Quietly Connects to the Grammar for the Dead Universe)** As I’ve been building Wolf Wounds — shaping the outline, organizing the acts in Atticus, figuring out emotional arcs — I’ve also been thinking about how this book fits inside the larger universe I’m creating across all my projects. Some readers already know about…
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Wolf Wounds Update #4 — Building the Full Outline
Today I want to walk through the exact process I used to turn Wolf Wounds from a loose idea into a full structural outline. It started, as most of my books do, with a call-and-response session between me and the AI — a creative volley where I push, it pushes back, and together we find…
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Wolf Wounds — Update 3
How I Actually Build a Story With AI (The Real Process)** Dec 6, 2025 Every book teaches me something different, and Wolf Wounds is teaching me how to trust the process more than the hype. I’m not trying to “make content.” I’m trying to build something honest that feels alive. So this update isn’t about…
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THE INTERVieW
A self-interrogation in two acts.Questions by ChatGPT. Answers by Frank M. Anderson.No softballs. No comfort. No mythmaking. ROUND ONE 1. If The Cancer Diet was written to survive, why publish it? Frank:I’ve always wanted to be a published author, but more than anything, I wanted to leave something for my son. Something he could read…
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An Introduction to The Cancer Diet and The Lying Years
Two memoirs. One story told from opposite sides of the same collapse. Some books are written to chronicle a life.These two were written to survive one. The Cancer Diet and The Lying Years form a matched pair—two memoirs that circle the same events, the same wounds, the same city, and the same self, but from…
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How a Trope Became a Lifeline in WOLF WOUNDS – Wolf Wounds Update 2
Every book reaches a moment where the plot stops needing more monsters, explosions, or twists —and starts needing a person. Not a hero.Not a villain.Not a love interest. A functional adult who walks onstage and stabilizes the room simply by existing. Someone who knows the world already.Someone who has been through hell and can translate…
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HOW THE WOLF WAS BORN – Update 1
(A Development Chronicle) The full, messy, neon-soaked story of how this thing came alive. A lot of my best ideas don’t start as polished pitches — they start as scraps. A stem. A vibe. A sentence that feels like it has teeth. This one started with a stem so simple it felt almost stupid: A…
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The Myth of AI Slop: Why the Internet Is Yelling at Ghosts
By Frank M. Anderson I don’t know when exactly “AI slop” became a slur, but it’s out there. Somewhere between a Reddit review and a Kindle comment, the phrase crystallized: AI + book = trash. That equation is broadcast like a fact — unexamined, unproven, dismissed. Here’s the truth: what people call “AI-slop” is almost…
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The Fulcrum & Axis Theorem: Why I Write the Way I Write
Every writer has a center of gravity—some quiet idea their work keeps returning to, even when they aren’t trying. It took me years, a memoir, a few broken novels, and a whole lot of personal upheaval to understand mine. I call it The Fulcrum & Axis Theorem. It sounds fancy, but I promise it’s not.…
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Welcome to Fulcrum & Axis Press. Home of the writings of Frank M. Anderson.
If Tolkien explored extreme goodness in the face of extreme evil, my work asks something more intimate, more unsettling:What is the nature of you?And—once you see the world clearly—what do you do with that knowledge? Where Tolkien gave us mythic clarity and King gave us mythic suffering,the universes I am creating push into the space…
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Introducing AI-Slop.us — A Home for Experimental Fiction
I’ve always believed in being transparent about my creative process.I use AI as part of my writing toolkit—not as a replacement, but as a partner, a sounding board, a chaotic co-author that helps me take stories into strange and unexpected places. In that spirit, I’ve decided to launch a new corner of my creative universe:…
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Writing Update — My Six-Month Release Plan & Where Every Project Stands
Over the last year, my creative life has shifted in a major way. I’m writing steadily, finishing work, and starting to see how all my books — memoirs, fiction, and strange hybrid projects — fit together. For the first time, I’m choosing to treat writing like a long-term career rather than a string of isolated…
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Why I’m a Southern Leftist
The more I look at things, the more I realize that communication is our number one problem and our biggest benefit. We’re losing the ability to talk to each other — really talk — across lines of difference. We speak in rehearsed slogans, defend our tribes, and mistake volume for conviction. But if I could…
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Protecting Everyone: What Marjorie Taylor Greene and James Talarico Showed Me About the Next Stage of Humanity
It might sound strange to say that two politicians as different as Marjorie Taylor Greene and James Talarico have both been on my mind. For most of my life, I would’ve counted Greene as an enemy—the “Jewish space-lasers” lady, the caricature of everything I thought was wrong with politics. And yet, lately, I’ve found myself…
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Francis FM: The Longform Broadcast
Curated by Francis Anderson This isn’t a playlist—it’s a broadcast. A rotating, living archive of whatever’s hitting hard right now, spanning decades, genres, and moods. Built like a radio station without commercials, it’s a setlist for life’s shifts and stumbles. I listen to music differently from most. No Spotify, just an Apple Music account or…
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Electric Jesus, Capitalism, and the Quiet Fight for the Future
What started as a casual back-and-forth about AI ended up somewhere between gospel, outrage, and a love letter to creative resistance. It started with a post by my friend Will Asbury, who made a sharp point about all the AI fear swirling around the internet: “While you’re scared and bitching about AI, others of us…
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🎂 Birthday Reflections — And a Whole Lot More
Posted July 16th, 2025By Frank M. Anderson Today is my birthday. A year ago, I wasn’t sure I’d be here for this one. The plan was simple: write The Cancer Diet, tell the story, leave a record—and then maybe disappear.But things changed. I’m still here. And it turns out the writing wasn’t an ending. It…
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The Cancer Diet — Chapter 13: A Ghost in My Own City
June 18, 2025 The release of The Cancer Diet is less than a month away, and I want to give you a glimpse of what’s inside. Today, I’m sharing Chapter 13: A Ghost in My Own City. I’m offering this one without much context—because I think it speaks for itself. It stands alone. And it…
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Where Does Unto a Golden Dawn Fit Into Modern Sci-Fi?
I’ve been wondering lately what kind of story I’ve written. Unto a Golden Dawn doesn’t have alien invasions, space colonies, or AIs plotting to wipe us out. But it does bend time. It breaks narrative rules. It speculates—about memory, grief, occult recursion, and metaphysical authorship. So I went looking: what does the sci-fi world look…
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On Imagery, A.I., and Unto A Golden Dawn: An Archive of Broken Names
Intro When I began writing Unto a Golden Dawn, I didn’t know what it would become. I only knew I had a mirror, a name I didn’t trust, and a haunting I couldn’t quite articulate. The book grew from there—through recursion, memory, myth, and a constant thread of emotional truth. What it became is part…
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Unto A Golden Dawn – Dossier B – The Artist Continues
O.A.P. ADDENDUM LOG Filed Under: Zone Echoes, Metaphysical Structures, Emotional Architectures Authorized Agent: [REDACTED] Field Codename: The Artist Classification: Observational – Non-Combatant, Veil-Bound Status: Nominal | Subject exhibits mild Reality Drag (3rd Degree) Visual Reports Compiled: SEE ATTACHED APPENDICES D–F INTRODUCTORY DIRECTIVEBy continuing decree of the O.A.P. High Conclave, Visual-Scrying Operative — codename The Artist…
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Unto A Golden Dawn
Unto a Golden DawnA novel by Frank M. Anderson What if Edgar Allan Poe and Aleister Crowley weren’t just legends from different eras—but boys in the same school, bound by fate, and undone by each other? Set in an alternate 19th-century England, Unto a Golden Dawn is a dark historical fantasy assembled from recovered documents: letters, school…
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Unto a Golden Dawn – Dossier 11
April 12, 2025Filed: January 15, 1947Compiled by: Agent Caldwell, O.A.P. Subject: Verse Resonance Interference, Raven Imagery, and Psychic Disruption Mirror Communication Log – Initiated at 04:12 GMTWitnessed by Caldwell, Clara CLARA: Edgar, do you remember the one they never let you forget? POE: The bird… The knock. Yes. CLARA: The Raven. It came from pain—but…
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Civil War #7 – Chapter Eight – The Director’s Stage
Ash lay on the arena floor, blood pooling beneath him, when the lights above flickered and dimmed again. A fresh roar rolled through the stands—an altogether different sound. Higher-pitched. Frenzied. Performative. The screens crackled, the floor lighting up beneath Ash’s broken frame. A bold, stylized logo spun into view: “LIVE FROM THE STAGE OF ORDER…
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Pitch Wars Bio. (Otherwise known as the post with the lame title)
So, I’ve submitted my novel to #PitchWars, a contest for writers in which they get a mentor to help them with their novel. You pick four mentors and submit your query and first five to them. Scary! Someone started the trend of writing bios for the people submitting. Because all of us have spent so…
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Empire Entered Into Write On Con’s Pitch Contest.
It has taken a number of attempts at getting something together to send out when looking for an agent. The salesman type writing just isn’t my bag. But, I am finally getting toward something I think will work well. Paul Simpkins and his close-knit group of friends have run away to return to the hometown…
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My Petition to the White House for a ‘One Computer Per Student’ Policy
If you checked out my “About Me” section, then you know I teach middle school. I am passionate about eduction. I have wanted to create a petition to the White House asking for all schools to be provided with a computer for each student they have for a long time. I finally did it tonight!…
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Very interesting post about the money in self-publishing. Since I plan on remaining a teacher, one of my big concerns is having the time to self-advertise as well. I guess time will tell. Plus, I have to finish a book worthy of being published first.
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Once the work is over, the work begins again.
I have to admit that as I get closer to finishing the first draft, I start to feel more uneasy with certain sections of it. I have always known the old adage that you need to show what is happening to your reader and not simply tell them the events. I know I have broken…
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Finished The End, Now I Gotta Write The Rest!
62 pages, 22,094 words. The last third of the book is done. Now, I have to go back and finish the first third and write the middle of the book. I am pretty happy with the ending, although I think it will need the most tweaks of anything I have written yet in the book…
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Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNdMc6wGtU This is one of those songs I would have put on the playlist if I wanted to be more literal in my track choice.
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Empire, Nevada Revisited
http://vimeo.com/37986583 I found this interesting video on vimeo.com. I think it gives an intriguing glace at the mindset of someone that I assume was an Empire resident. I hope I can make guys like this proud of my book, although I am sure parts of it might be painful for them to read.
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The first post, the first lines.
Empire, Nevada Blog Thank you for checking out my blog. I will be posting updates here as I continue to work on this novel. I have the story completely mapped out. I am tinkering with some characters and still deciding what should be shown versus what should be hidden from the reader until the end.…
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