tips for writers
I found this on the Smartblogger site written by Glen Long and the info is very helpful to me. I have been ignoring the muse for many months, haven’t even looked at the book I had finally felt was complete about the first phase of the sailing adventures. So,…
You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven’t…
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It’s snowing again and a perfect day for working on my writing. I’m going to spend half the rest of the day working on my taxes (ugh!) and half the day working on a new play. Eureka Springs has a…
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I don’t believe in feeding wild animals because I feel it disturbs their normal methods of hunting and foraging. But this guy came right up to me when I was snacking on some peanuts and just wouldn’t leave. I finally…
Read MoreThis is from a link I got from the San Francisco Writers Conference Newsletter and has some valuable tips for writers as you prepare your income tax. I’m including it below verbatim: Are you a professional writer? That is, is…
Read MoreJust left the San Francisco Writers Conference. We’re travelling in our RV back to Arkansas, sitting in a beautiful county park site just outside Tucson, looking out at all the amazingly varied cactus. The mountains here are stunning as well.…
Read MoreDuring the three-minute pitch sessions to an agent (or several) included as part of the San Francisco Writers Conference fee, one NY agent asked me to send her some scenes from my book, an L.A. agent asked me to send…
Read MoreEvery morning, I get some wonderful snippets of advice from well-established writers, and here’s the one for today:“The hardest thing about writing, in a sense, is not writing. I mean, the sentence is not intended to show you off, you…
Read More“If you want to write, it must be the thing not that you want to do, or would like to do. It must be the thing you feel you have to do. It must be that without which you could…
Read MoreStephanie Chandler, the founder of the Nonfiction Writers Association, has presented some good ideas as additional money streams for authors besides book sales. Here, verbatim, are her ten top suggestions: Says Stephanie, “The reality is that it’s hard to make…
Read MoreHere’s a quote I can relate to:“We’re all there trying to make the story, novel, or chapter as good as it can be. It’s a constant struggle to get it down, get it clear, and understand that your intentions are…
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