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Are You Long-Winded?

Originally posted on IRISH FIREBRANDS: A Novel ~ and Other Works by Christine Plouvier, Indie Author:
If your long or descriptive sentences are anything like Stevenson’s, I’ll gladly read every last word of ’em! SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island,…

Useless Advice from an unpunished author – How much is too much description?

Useless Advice from an unpunished author – How much is too much description?

Originally posted on Eric's blog:
Useless Advice from an unpunished author This is not very good advice because I don’t know. We all know that description is good, especially in fantasy if you are world building then you need to the reader to see the world. I’ve read books and been very confused as…

Uploading your Self-Published eBook to Lulu

Originally posted on Plaisted Formatting & Genealogy:
Welcome to the world of LULU Uploading.  As promised here is the second installment about UPLOADING…This time it’s for eBOOKS. WE start with picking what we wish to publish, of course this time it is the ebook we wish to do. So follow the images and I’ll explain…

Uploading your Self-Publishing Paperback to KDP Print

Originally posted on Plaisted Formatting & Genealogy:
We all know that KDP Print is likely to be taking over from Createspace when they finally close their doors (after all we’ve seen go on in the last 12 mth) I thought it would be good to do a presentation for those who wish to use KDP…

Guest author: Victoria Zigler – Infographics

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Pictures and infographics.  Wonderful things, aren’t they? Everyone seems to think so.  But I don’t.  Personally, I hate infographics, and find picture heavy posts annoying. We live in a world where it’s assumed you have all five of your senses, and nothing makes that clearer than the…

Pressed from Mythic Scribes: Writing Killer Descriptions – First Impressions

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Originally posted on Andrea Lundgren:
Description is one of my least favorite things to write–it feels like such a catalog of objects, colors, and sensations–but it’s a necessary evil. Action can’t happen in a vacuum; readers need some sense of where a character is, even if its only very general. Some authors have gotten away…

The Seven Deadly Sins of Short Story Writing and how to avoid them

The Seven Deadly Sins of Short Story Writing and how to avoid them

Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
This post grew out of an article I originally wrote for the Hysterectomy Association when I was writer in residence of their annual writing comeptition earlier this year. I recently came across the WikiHow entry on how to write a short story. The actual article contains good advice, but…

3 Reasons We Get Bored With Our Own Plot

3 Reasons We Get Bored With Our Own Plot

Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work:
I am currently working on a short story collection for an upcoming book release.  I’ve cobbled together some short stories already published on Literary Juice and elsewhere as well as some brand spanking new short stories to send chills up my reader’s spine. However, one short story has…

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