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30 WRITING COMPETITIONS with Amazing Prizes
Every few months, I like to collate a bucket load of writing competitions and plonk them in a post for you to peruse and enter at your leisure. I say it all the time, but writing is a muscle. If yo… Source: 30 WRITING COMPETITIONS with Amazing Prizes
Pulling the Rug Out: The Keys to Creating Great Twists by Steven James
Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
? ? ? ? ? When a basketball player pivots, he keeps one foot in place while spinning to the side to change direction. That’s what a plot twist does. The story’s new direction doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s rooted in the overall context of the story, but…
2016 PLANETARY AWARDS
Originally posted on Space and Sorcery:
Like last year, Planetary Defense Command promotes this award for our favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy works (and I’d like to add my thanks for the timely reminder I received today, since I almost forgot that time was running out to post my choices). HERE you will find all…
Writers, are you showing off or sharing? A way to kill your darlings
Originally posted on Nail Your Novel:
I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s Notes From A Small Island and he describes a moment in an Edinburgh art gallery when he saw a father talking to his son about the difference between early and later Goya. Bryson says: The man was describing the pictures with a fondness and…
Guest author: Connie Jasperson – Oregon Sunset
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
We sat on the beach near the fire, Two old people bundled against the cold Oregon sunset. Friends we’d never met fished the surf, Children and dogs ran at waves’ edge. Red sky, red mist, red sunset. Fire, water, wind, and you. * Wind whipped my hair,…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 