Archive | August 21, 2018
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Trim the fat from your fiction: Redundancy – by Kerri Miller…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Utopian Editing site: Great stories can be ruined by too many words. Redundancy in particular can make your prose squeak like the clarinetists in a middle school band (I’m allowed to say that because I played clarinet). Not all repetition is bad. It can…
Great reminder on what not to worry about
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
In other words… I need to use this as my screen saver. A constant reminder that my first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. I’ve rewritten the same chapter at least five times. Tweaking a comma here, a comma there, putting commas everywhere only to go back rewrite the…
On Losing My Ability to Read and Write
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
By Rae Pagliarulo Right around my birthday this past January, as I was on my way to a friend’s house carrying a pizza for dinner, I slipped on a sheet of ice, flew into the air, and landed on my head. My first thought was not about the excruciating…
Profile of Word Weaver Writing Contest 1st PLACE WINNER: “Devils Hollow Holy Water” by Adele Marie Park
Originally posted on DAN ALATORRE:
What goes on inside the writerly mind? Let’s sit down with our Word Weaver Writing Contest 1st place winner, Adele Marie Park, and find out. ? (Like all our winner’s profiles, when they answered these questions, they did not yet know what place they had taken in the contest.) author Adele…
Facebook Ads News: Changes in Targeting
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Photo by http://offers.hubspot.com/science-of-facebook-marketing Unless you spend most of your time under a rock, you will have heard of Facebook’s troubles regarding its cavalier use of its user’s personal data. Zuckerberg was grilled in Congress and they were recently fined £500,000 for their role in the big Cambridge Analytical data scandal,…
Great Expectations..?
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
It had been a month since I had last been in the north and, as I took to the road once again, there was the familiar frisson of excitement that always runs through me as the journey begins. This time, however, there was something more… a longing…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 