Evil? you think. Aren’t you being a bit dramatic? you think. At least, I think that’s what you’re thinking. It’s what I would have thought before going through the editing process myself. Maybe I am being dramatic. Maybe not. If you’re writing to get published, you’ll find out. I say evil because editing hurts. It […]
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If you want to write, read. Read voraciously and widely. Read good books and ‘bad’ (eye of the beholder and all that) books. The techniques learned from reading are priceless. I think reading is like play for children, you’re having so much fun doing it you don’t realize you’re learning. Every genre and every author
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. -Anne Lamott If you want to be a writer you must write. Something, anything. Start your short story with something as cliche as once upon a time or start your mystery novel with it was a dark and stormy night but
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We all need help once in a while. Some of us more than others (yes, I mean me). Below are some tools I rely on to the point of I can’t sit down to write unless they’re with arms reach: A Writer’s Reference by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-writers-reference-diana-hacker/1127607270?ean=9781319057442 This book is a little
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This week, I’ve selected three fabulous novels that I bought off of the Barnes and Noble books under 2.99 section. These flash sales are a great way to find amazing reads and explore new, and new to you, authors for next to nothing. Now that I’ve read these authors and know I can trust their
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The reason I’ve set up a website, that I’m torturing you with my blathering in this blog (and blogs to come), is the question above. I’ve always had a passion for the written word, I was the only kid I knew that got in trouble in school for reading too much, wanting to be a
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