Archive | December 16, 2014
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Sweeping Up and The Differences Between The Sexes
Originally posted on The One & Only Elgon:
Writers end up doing a lot of things on the side to fuel the creativity and pay the bills while waiting for a novel to go viral. In other words, we wind up doing a lot of the same things aspiring actors and other artists do to…
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Originally posted on The Encouragement Corner:
The story’s in my head I know my protagonist With all of his foibles and struggles, But, oh, the agony of getting it all written down, His history so rich, details must be doled, How much in the beginning, How much backstory to withhold? I’ll get it right; I…
Brian Brennan – update on a republication
Originally posted on Reading Recommendations:
Brian Brennan was previously featured on Reading Recommendations in Nov. 2013 and is back now to tell us about the re-publication, in eBook only, of a book that was previously published in 2002 by Fifth House. Scoundrels and Scallywags (E-book edition) Smashwords, 2014 Alberta has a reputation for attracting and…
…Great Authors’ openers that grab yeez by the throat and pull yeez into their novels…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Jurassic has many, many favourite novels from my early reading days… a time when as a twenty-sum’thing young man I was beginning to enjoy the glimpses into WURLDS created in the minds of scribbling geniuses’ of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties… recently I’ve featured the names of some of…
I make no sound
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
I won’t make a sound when I walk by the reeds and I will see the heron, solitary fisher of quicksilver prey. I will wait silent and still for the darting bill and the diamond drip of river water. I will see the pearl grey plumes, the silver flash…
Supporting Your Author Friend
Originally posted on Laura Best:
This post could have been written by my family and friends. It’s all about how to support your authorly friends out there, and since my friends and family have been awesome enough to support me through the publication of two books I wanted to let others in on their tips…
What is a blog?
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
What in the world is a blog? Big Lazy Old Guy. No, no that’s just my own personal definition as I look at my reflection in the screen of my laptop as I write this. You’ve heard of them, Blogs that is, you might even have one, still Blogs or maybe…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 