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5 Ways to Hook Your Reader In Every Scene
Originally posted on Kristina Stanley:
Many writing books talk about the importance of the first line, first paragraph and first page of a novel. If you don’t grab the reader early in your novel, you might lose them for good. Taking that thought and applying it to each scene means evaluating the entry hook for…
Kindred Spirits…
Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:
The jobbing actor remembered for all time as a British spy chief As jobbing writers we can never rely on our work to feed us. So we must have an alternative source of income. In other words, a day job. Some like myself are now long since retired…
Authors, Please Don’t Act Like Scammers
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
I thought of this post when I heard of a problem plaguing one of the groups I belong to. People are using its Twitter hashtag without actually being members of said group. This both confuses readers and dilutes the group’s rather successful brand. Even worse, these authors are taking…
Are you twitterpated? #springishere #Romance #mgtab
Originally posted on Jacquie Biggar-USA Today Best-selling author :
Spring is here and love is in the air! I love this time of year. Everywhere you look there are signs of romance. Hundreds of birds wake me in the morning with their songs and hummingbirds perform death-defying spirals during their mating rituals. My pets are full…
#CreativeMich (@CreativeMich) Vol. 3 N. 123 (03/20/2018) Netflix has a boom in Michigan connections; Oscar winner comes home for Ann Arbor Film Festival
Originally posted on Motown Writers Network . . . Michigan Literary Network:
Creative Industry News Ann Arbor Film Festival Day One: What you need to know – Click on Detroit – 03/19/2018 ‘Love At First Flight’: Former Okemos resident cast in new reality show – Lansing State Journal – 03/19/2018 With ‘Flint Town’ and ‘Roxanne Roxanne,’ Netflix has a boom in Michigan…