The Owl Lady
PitchWars? Not For Me, This Year.
Originally posted on WRITING TIPS & WRITERLY MUSINGS:
Sitting This One Out For the first time since I found the PitchWars community, I’m really not entering. Between work stress, life stress, and not having anything new, it’s just not going to happen for me this year. I haven’t even looked at any of the blogs…
How to rewrite with more impact
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
Switch out those inactive words with power words. Hit your reader straight on and leave them in awe. K.M. Allan tells us to check this list against our writing and replace with active words. And you all know, I do love lists. The Active Word Checklist by K.M. Allan I am…
5 Steps to Writing Better How-To: by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Jane Friedman site: In the age of YouTube—where instructions for many of our daily how-to challenges can be answered with a click—the needs for books in the how-to genre are changing. If the answers to your potential readers’ questions can be satisfied by watching…
Profile of Word Weaver Writing Contest 2nd PLACE WINNER: “Where The Black Tree Grows” by MD Walker
Originally posted on DAN ALATORRE:
What goes on inside the writerly mind? Let’s sit down with our Word Weaver Writing Contest 2nd place winner, MD Walker, and find out. ? MD WALKER DAN: Did you write your story for the contest or was it part of a larger piece or something you had written before? MD:…
… ‘that damned, elusive Pimpernel… for ‘Pimpernel’, read ‘Literary Agent’…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler has been at this glorious writing game now for ten years… not so much, ‘man and boy’, more ‘man and older man’… during that time, the joys, the excitement, the much-more-ups-than-downs, have attended my creation of the wee literary masterpieces which have become the Jack…
The Guilty Dead by PJ Tracy #BlogTour @MichaelJBooks @BTUkatie
Originally posted on mychestnutreadingtree:
I am thrilled to be opening the blog tour today for The Guilty Dead by PJ Tracy. And it’s publication day!Many thanks to Katie Ashworth for my invite and review copy of the book. About this book… Gregory Norwood, wealthy businessman and close friend of Minnesota’s leading candidate for Governor, is…
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