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A Simple Guide to Deep PoV
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Point of View (PoV) is a fascinating thing. It allows us to play god in the little universe we have created for ourselves (and, hopefully, our readers). And, like a zoom-in function, allows us to zoom in and out of our characters. We can either watch them from afar…
…Authors, it costs yeez NUTHIN to dream…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…the trusty Webster’s Dictionary offers several meanings for the WURD, ‘dream’… my favourites of the nouns for it are these: an aspiration… a goal… an aim… and in the active verb style: to form in the imagination… as a child (which I once was, Mabel, albeit about a hundred years ago), more time than I care to admit sum’times, was…
…re-run by popular request… Foreword for SELF-PUBLISHING STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL SALES…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…yeez are very nice people out there, Lads and Lassies of Blog Land… many of yeez have suggested I run the Foreword for SELF-PUBLISHING STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL SALES so that my fellow quill-scrapers may get a clear notion of what it’s about… if it can help any of yeez, that’s a…
Writing the Back Blurb
Originally posted on Shannon A. Thompson:
Announcements: The Messy Owl reviewed Take Me Tomorrow, stating, “A thrilling and entangling plot, full of suspense and action.” Read the entire review here or check out my latest novel by clicking here. … Writing the Back Blurb As I near the release date of Death Before Daylight, I remember…
Research – The Devil of Details
Originally posted on Vampire Syndrome Blog:
Research is one of the most unheralded tasks a proper author must do. It can take several hours of research to get a single sentence to be correct. In Chapter One of “Vampire Invasion” (book three of the Vampire Syndrome Saga), Lilith’s inner monologue says: “I stride over to…
Weekend Edition – The Dichotomy of You Plus Good Reads and Writing Tips
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
The Dichotomy of You – The Writer You are a complex animal. You are not only human (already a perplexing tangle of physical, emotional, and spiritual knots), you are also a writer. You are human complexity to a factor of ten – a bundle of…
The Wolfcat Chronicles – An Update
Originally posted on The One & Only Elgon:
And so it goes…the revision that is. I’ve been crunching through the manuscript adding here deleting there – mainly deleting, actually. I’m on Chapter 26 of 32. I might finish the revision today. Early this morning I made a decision that, though hardly irreversible, affects the beginning…
…the beauty of an Author’s writing is in the beholding Reader’s eye…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…telling a story in the movies is so much different from rolling out a narrative in a book… p’raps that explains why so many film versions fall short of the written WURD… on screen, precious little is left to the imagination of the cinemagoer… even the tone of language and…
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