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Weekend Edition – Why You Write Plus Writing Tips and Good Reads

Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Why You Write Source: IBM: http://www-03.ibm.com/ Though perhaps I should spend less time questioning and more time simply doing, I have always had a fascination with why human beings create art and, in particular, why we write. When you spend as much time as we…

The Stories Worth Telling, by Guest, Susan Weidener

By The Owl Lady February 1, 2015 Leave a comment

What Horse Behaviour Taught Me About Being An Author

By The Owl Lady January 29, 2015 Leave a comment

Plot Issues: Stupidity

By The Owl Lady January 26, 2015 Leave a comment

Originally posted on Vampires, Crime and Angels…Eclectic Me:
I don’t know about you, but I’ve watched a handful of films and TV shows, recently, where the plot progression is stagnated, by a character’s stupidity. I don’t mean that the character comes across stupid or is actually stupid; I mean that the little things the characters…

Writing Entrepreneurs vs Writing Experts: How to Pick Them

By The Owl Lady January 23, 2015 Leave a comment

50 Shades of Fan Fiction (or am I a book snob?)

By The Owl Lady January 20, 2015 Leave a comment

I’m Coming out . . . as a Closeted Writer, I Mean

By The Owl Lady January 20, 2015 Leave a comment

Unbroken and Undefeated by Guest, Karen McFarland

By The Owl Lady January 16, 2015 Leave a comment

New Podcast Up: There And Back Again Once More

By The Owl Lady January 11, 2015 Leave a comment

Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work:
In the first podcast of 2015, we discuss a little bit of literary failure before launching into why we continue writing even in the face of adversity. What keeps you going? We also discuss the final Hobbit film and how it holds up to the text of Tolkien’s…