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Editing Tip #100 – When to Take a (BETA) Reader’s Advice
We all know the importance of feedback when it comes to editing, revising, and re-writing our books and stories… it’s crucial. But how do you know which advice to take and which advice to leave? It’s not as difficult as you might think. Bottom line, the more feedback you get the easier it is to…
16 Misquoted Quotations
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
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Guest Post: Brian Downes
Originally posted on ARMAND ROSAMILIA:
How Much Detail Gets You to 1939? All fiction is historical fiction, sooner or later. My own novel, The Berlin Fraternity, was written in the twenty zeroes, and begins almost ninety years earlier. The follow up that I am writing now, Red Sleeper, is set in 1956. In those books,…
Writing about the beast within – get your pens out for this unusual competition
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded (the always cheerful) Gustave Flaubert I’m posting news about this writing competition because of the subject you have to tackle – Primitive Humanity. Your task is to write fiction of no more than 3000 words on rage, lust and those…
Review: “MIEDO: Living Beyond Childhood Fear” by Kevin Cooper
Originally posted on writerchristophfischer:
“MIEDO: Living Beyond Childhood Fear” by Kevin Cooper is a gripping drama that slowly creeps up on you. We know of the fear the young boy lives with from a haunting prologue, before taken back to happier times. As we follow the seemingly biographical childhood desciption we wait for the event…
#MondayBlogs Writing About Real and Imaginary Locations
Originally posted on Shannon A. Thompson:
Intro: I’m passionate about many things, but writing and traveling top my list, and I find myself combining them all the time. Need a location for a story? Hey, that place I saw last summer would be perfect. Need something more exotic ? Maybe something surreal? Combining and creating comes…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 