Wednesday, December 7, 2011
I’m a huge fan of GMail. Have I ever mentioned that before? I know I’ve talked about Google Docs, and you can probably take it for granted that anyone who raves about Google Docs appreciates the company’s email service, too. Still. I’m a huge fan of GMail. I never delete anything. Everything goes in the [...]
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Also tagged Consortium Books, Courtney Cantrell, Creative Writing, Drafts, Editing, Jessie Sanders, Joshua Unruh, Master of Professional Writing, NaNoWriMo, Publication, Revising, Storytelling, Taming Fire
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
So. Thanks to Josh and a rollicking romp of insanity, I somehow got myself involved with the Kindle All-Stars Project. In short, KAS is the brainchild of one Bernard J. Schaffer, who is putting together a short story anthology for Kindle of various independent authors. The proceeds of the anthology will go to the National [...]
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Also tagged Bernard J. Schaffer, Beta readers, Courage, Creative Writing, Elizabeth Engstrom, Fear, Feedback, Joshua Unruh, Kindle All-Stars, Kindle Publishing, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Short Stories, WILAWriTWe
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There’s a bug that’s been going around recently. As a matter of fact, there’s two. The first is a summer cold. An upper respiratory virus. Nothing terrifying or crippling, but just enough to take a man down for six to ten days. In this case, the grown man was me. That’s only a small part [...]
It was a couple weeks ago when I talked about the importance of designing good story questions. Since then I’ve talked about the diverse properties of bones, and some rules for using story questions to build a structurally sound novel. Leaving out the cute story about my kid, most of the discussion has been about [...]
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Characters are like the paint samples of the world. Some of them are vivid. Some are pale. A select few are restful and pleasant to the reader’s eye the moment they step onto the page. Yet others look icky, no matter what light we cast them in. But they all need molding and clarifying, and that’s where the hard work starts…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Athena, Character, Character Development, Creative Writing, Julie Velez, Paint, Storytelling, Trish Pogue, WILAWriTWe, Zeus
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