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New Year’s Resolution: Turn Your First Draft Into A Great Story – Feedback For Fiction
Originally posted on KRISTINA STANLEY:
Happy New Year. The holidays are over and maybe you’re thinking about your New Year’s resolution. How about rewriting your novel by following the Feedback process? Spend more time on your passion and finish that awesome story. Being able to perform a structural edit on your own manuscript will ensure you…
A Writer’s Mind: Notebooks of Famous Folks
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Though I love the flexibility that modern technology offers to writers, a bit of beauty is lost when authors create their works using computers. With that in mind, today I want to feature some of the physical remnants of the work of writers. Some of these are notebooks filled with…
A Little Hook
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
Every writer has his or her own process. Ideas come, sometimes in the form of virtual Mack trucks that appear out of nowhere, usually at the most inopportune of times, creating the need for you to stop whatever it is that you’re doing and run away to write all…
Is ‘One Note’ a Writer’s Tool?
Originally posted on Writer's Treasure Chest:
? Is ONE NOTE really a Writer’s Tool? As I writer, my answer to this question is definitely YES. For quite a while I had been looking for a way to take my notes with me. As many people nowadays I adjusted to modern technology. I work on…
How the Age of Digital Books is Fostering the Writing and Self-Publishing of Mid-length Books
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Extract from an article on the Self Publishing Advice Site: The digital publishing revolution has brought both opportunities and threats to those who write in specific non-fiction genres, whether in traditional book form or for other print publications such as newspapers and magazines. British author…
Milestones, people power and the OMG effect
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
It doesn’t matter what we are doing, consciously or not, we all seem to set ourselves arbitrary milestones. Some decide on them in advance, creating a deliberate goal that is as firmly fixed as a guiding star, others simply recognise them in passing, but whether it is…
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