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Writing the Next Great American Novel
Photo Credit: SMLions12 Have you ever watched a movie and thought to yourself ’Gosh this sounds familiar‘ not in the sense of the dialogue perhaps but the general storyline. Welcome to Hollywood. But we can take this same idea and apply it to the way we write. Everything starts as a book (or a screenplay) these [...]
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Back on the Editing Horse
I have spent the past couple of months doing everything under the sun BUT edit my writing. Considering I started with 180,000 words and have cut that number down to 91,000 I would say I needed a break. Of course I would say that. I didn’t want to edit anything else for as long as I [...]
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Free Desktop Wallpapers for Writers
Sometimes you just have to let your procrastination flag fly. If you read me often, you know how I feel about procrastination. If not, basically procrastination is the best tool in a writers arsenal. Procrastination is the minds form of idea-seeking, thought-forming, preparation tool. So, as I was saying, let your procrastination/randomness flag fly. And I’m [...]
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Content Farming Under Fire
Photo Credit: Allen Hsu Content is King – that is the mantra online and for good reason. Content keeps your traffic up, the interest going and keeps people looking at your ads. But today we are comparing the ‘content farms’ of the online world to the average Joe blogger. Outsourcing is a great way to give your [...]
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Sexy Smart Phones at My Fingertips
I’m sporting the awesome palm centro. Yeah, I downgraded from the HTC Tilt ages ago because I kept breaking it and I wanted an easy phone for a while. Now I am drooling and chomping at the bit as my eyes scan over the vast array of smart phones. But in a market flooded with [...]
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What is a Novella?
Posted on 02 March 2010
The word count of a novel/ette/ella is what determines what it is defined as in the literary world. A novella is shorter than a novel but longer than a novelette. To understand what that really means, we should look at what constitutes a novel and what constitutes a novelette. In the way of definitions, they are all [...] Continue Reading
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What is Vanity Publishing?
Posted on 02 March 2010
Vanity Press or Vanity Publishing as it is commonly referred is self-funded publishing of a book by an independent author. This means that no matter the quality of the book, as long as the author has the money to do so, the book gets put out ‘on the presses’ and offered to readers. There are publishing [...] Continue Reading
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What is a Genre?
Posted on 02 March 2010
Genre means ‘kind’ and it is the equivalent to the word ‘category’. So, to interchange the word, ‘What Genre is your book?’ would sound like ‘What Category is your book?’ and of course the word Category is much easier to think of when asked about something as monumental as your book. What kinds of Genres or [...] Continue Reading
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What is a Plot?
Posted on 28 February 2010
A plot is an overall conflict of a story, or a ‘general theme’. Beyond the mood and characters of a story, a novel’s plot is the main conflict and setting; such as searching for murderers. A plot ‘structure’ is usually complex and makes a story ‘cohesive’. The basic elements include conflict, action and climax as well [...] Continue Reading
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Microsoft’s Built-In Speech to Text Functionality
Posted on 27 February 2010
I am doing a ‘run-down’ on all types of writing software and assistance tools, so check out the article soon to be >here<. But over all I am looking at the tools we writers need. One of the tools I hear a lot about is Speech to Text. (Not to be confused with Text to [...] Continue Reading
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Top Ten Gifts for Writers – #1
Posted on 25 February 2010
Hurray! Finally! We are HERE! THE TOP! The best, I said BEST GIFT to get a writer! Are you ready for this? Are you excited?! Are you scared? You should be…. The #1 Gift to get a Writer is… A trip to a Writer’s Retreat! One that I have found looking exceptionally relaxing is the Whidbey Island Writer’s Retreat in Washington! What’s [...] Continue Reading
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