Tag Archive | writing
…Sean (Connery) Connery versus Seumas (Icon-nery?) Gallacher…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…comparisons are often said to be ‘odious’, but on occasion they can be frighteningly revealing… if yeez just have a wee peek at the table below, some mind-boggling juxtapositioning is startling… that Other Wannabe Scottish man of the arts, Sir Sean Connery, compares surprisingly well with Master Gallacher… the parallels…
Markets For Writers
Originally posted on Esther Chilton:
If you enjoy writing short stories which bring out goose bumps on your readers’ arms, then The Fiction Desk’s Ghost Story Competition might be for you. They’re looking for stories of between 1000-7000 words. The entry fee is a little steep at £8, but the prizes are good: 1st: £500 2nd:…
Request For Readers To Write An Honest Review Of “Lost In The Labyrinth Of My Mind” In Return For A Free Copy Of My Book
Originally posted on K Morris – Poet:
I have been busy over the last few days pulling together my latest collection of poems, “Lost In The Labyrinth Of My Mind”. Poems about nature, mortality and the joys and pangs of love are interspersed with humorous poetry. I hope to publish in mid January (hopefully sooner)…
Writing Progress: Getting Bogged Down
Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work:
Word count: 6350 Today was hard. Really hard. I fought to get the words on the page. It was a struggle much like wrestling an opponent much larger and more confident than myself. I started by writing up the bio on another hero I intended to use later,…
Fran Kimmel
Originally posted on Reading Recommendations:
Fran Kimmel What is your latest release and what genre is it? The Shore Girl is a contemporary novel set in Alberta. Quick description: Rebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother, Elizabeth. The Shore Girl follows…
Interesting Literature: 10 Great Facts about Writers and Dogs
Originally posted on The Linden Chronicles:
10 Great Facts about Writers and Dogs. Image: A nine-year-old Jack London and his dog Rollo, 1885 (author unknown), Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Wharton – an update on a new children’s book
Originally posted on Reading Recommendations:
Thomas Wharton was previously featured on Reading Recommendations in August 2014, and is back now to tell us of a new illustrated book for children he has just published! Rutherford the Time-Travelling Moose written by Thomas Wharton illustrated by Amanda Schutz Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-9948434-2-5, 32 Pages Website Contact Information: info…
Writers: Stop Romanticizing Rejection. Or, Why I Love Amazon.
I read a wonderful post on The Atlantic by Kavita Das the other day, which discussed one of my pet peeves. Jamaican writer Marlon James recently won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his ri… Source: Writers: Stop Romanticizing Rejection. Or, Why I Love Amazon.
Stone and a Hard Place – Book Review
Originally posted on The Book Review Directory:
? Stone and a Hard Place It’s hard enough for Alastair Stone to keep his two lives—powerful mage and mundane Occult Studies professor—separate without an old friend asking him to take on a new apprentice. Especially after a university colleague wants him to investigate a massive old house…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 