Writing Help and Advice for All
Character. Action. Setting.
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Lucky you! By chance, I pulled two blog spots this week! Photo credit: PeteJackson Yesterday I talked about paring down your words to the bone – which is a message, when boiled down, is simply put as- “get to the point.” Sometimes it’s tough to…
5 Tricks to Keep a Modern Reader Interested
Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work:
I can’t count the amount of indie books I’ve started but haven’t finished. I read everything on Kindle now save a few of my favorites like those in my Tolkien collection (I have all hard-bound editions of those). If I want to figure out whether I want to…
Fun With Heteronyms and Homographs – Happy Monday!
Originally posted on Author P.S. Bartlett:
This is from an e-mail I received this morning. I have no idea who wrote this but BRAVO! Heteronyms… this is brilliant Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning. A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym. You think English is…
How to Remove the Background from an Object (PhotoShop Tutorial)
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
HOW TO REMOVE A BACKGROUND IN PHOTOSHOP Sometimes, you find the perfect image for your needs, but it’s part of another picture. You don’t want to use the entire picture. A simple crop won’t suffice. You’d really love to extract just that image from the background. Similarly, if you shop for…