About: Cadet Davis

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Davis

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http://www.superheronation.com

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Mr. Davis is a failed USAF cadet that will be editing for us until around April 2009. He's widely known as "Cadet" for reasons he doesn't pretend to understand. It is widely thought that the Air Force let him go for killing a man with a stapler. He won't confirm or deny that, but he has confirmed that making a chair force joke when he's within reach of a stapler could be very painful. He brings the same cheerful, forgiving approach to his writing advice. Watch out, Eragon.

Posts by Cadet Davis:

• 25 Mar 2009 Impending Arrivals and Departures
• 18 Mar 2009 Beat a Professional Proofreader!
• 23 Feb 2009 If Arthurian legend had fan-fiction…
• 24 Jan 2009 Your Title is Bad, But You Can Fix It (Part 10)
• 19 Dec 2008 Regular Responses Begin Tomorrow Night
• 18 Dec 2008 I hate Barbara Streisand
• 17 Dec 2008 Dammit, I’m not a squid!
• 17 Dec 2008 How much do comic book writers make?
• 16 Dec 2008 Our visual approach to dialogue is getting more stylish
• 15 Dec 2008 Writing Music of the Day
• 07 Dec 2008 Common Gun-Related Errors for Authors
• 02 Dec 2008 Writing Tip of the Day: Twins Are Generally Unhelpful
• 28 Nov 2008 Writing Tip: Give Your Characters Urgent Goals, Not Joy Rides
• 26 Nov 2008 “How to Be Edited”
• 25 Oct 2008 Your Title is Bad, But You Can Fix It (Part 9)
• 22 Oct 2008 “How far in the book should I introduce my main character?”
• 22 Oct 2008 Three qualities of interesting villains
• 15 Oct 2008 (Updated) These six openings usually fail
• 05 Oct 2008 Does anyone find sitcoms about 30-something failures as annoying as I do?
• 05 Oct 2008 Writing Tip of the Day: Avoid This Opening Line. It Sucks.
• 03 Oct 2008 A Random Name Generator
• 03 Oct 2008 Another movie with Lex Luthor? Haven’t we suffered enough already?
• 21 Sep 2008 Your Title is Bad, But You Can Fix It (Part 8)
• 15 Sep 2008 The difference between a convoluted plot and a brilliant one…
• 11 Sep 2008 Fringe Review
• 06 Sep 2008 Don’t Let Your Characters Walk Away from the Quest
• 28 Aug 2008 Mr. Buckell reports: the median advance on a first sci-fi or fantasy novel is $5000
• 27 Aug 2008 Your Title is Bad, But You Can Fix It (Part 7)
• 21 Aug 2008 Ten Words That Will Ruin Your Title
• 13 Aug 2008 When Spiderman ties up a criminal, what do the police charge him with?
• 05 Aug 2008 Writing Tip of the Day: Avoid These Meaningless Words
• 05 Aug 2008 Manuscript Killers: Mary Sues
• 03 Aug 2008 Your Title is Bad, But You Can Fix It (Part 4)
• 02 Aug 2008 Writing Tip of the Day: Don’t Mismarket Your Work as a Parody
• 02 Aug 2008 Gender-Based Differences in Speech
• 01 Aug 2008 Writing a book proposal?
• 31 Jul 2008 Manuscript Killers: Mentors
• 30 Jul 2008 Writing Tip of the Day: Avoid Symbolic Animals in Titles
• 29 Jul 2008 Writing Tip of the Day: Avoid Superfluous Lines of Dialogue
• 27 Jul 2008 Writing Tip of the Day: Don’t Spend Too Much Time on Weather
• 25 Jul 2008 Our Exam for Novelists now has over 125 questions!
• 22 Jul 2008 Five More Mistakes of First-Time Authors (#36-40)
• 19 Jul 2008 Your Title is Bad, but You Can Save It (Part 3)
• 17 Jul 2008 Your Title is Bad, but You Can Fix It (Part 2)
• 16 Jul 2008 How to Write Titles
• 16 Jul 2008 Your Title is Bad But You Can Fix It (Part 1)
• 14 Jul 2008 Writing Tip of the Day: Don’t Start Sentences with Empty Interjections
• 11 Jul 2008 Comedy Tip of the Day: Don’t Use Laugh-tracks
• 07 Jul 2008 Cliche Superhero Characters: National Paragons (“Captain Ethnic”)
• 05 Jul 2008 Bad Authorial Excuse of the Day

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