Book Review – The 2018 Author’s Journal

Author: Audrey Ann Hughey Title: The 2018 Author’s Journal Pages: 346 Formats: Paperback 8.5×11 Language: English ISBN-10: 198146476X ISBN-13: 978-1981464760 Availability: Amazon,  Website: https://www.thewriteservices.com/ Book Blurb Make 2018 Your Best Author Year Ever! The 2018 Author’s Journal is a planner designed for authors, providing spaces to plan your writing and publishing goals, develop effective marketing & advertising plans, and […]

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Book Review – The Fantasy Fiction Formula by Deborah Chester

Author: Deborah Chester Title: The Fantasy Fiction Formula Pages: 264 Formats: Paperback, Kindle, Nook … podcast… Publisher: Manchester University Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 0719097061 ISBN-13: 978-0719097065 Availability: Amazon,  Barnes and Noble Website: DeborahChester dot com Book Blurb “Listen carefully to what Debbie has to say about telling stories, aspiring writer. She knows exactly what she’s talking about.” […]

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Welcome to the insanity that is: NaNoWriMo

It’s that time of year again: friends vanish for long stretches of time and start obsessing about word counts and write-ins, all in the name of NaNoWriMo.  For those of you who haven’t heard about it, November is National Novel Writing Month, and for one month writers all over the world try to write 50,000 […]

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November 12, 2015

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Poetry Part 2: Rhyme and meter aka Rhythm and Rhyme

Words have rhythm when spoken and when we’re rhyming it’s not always the last syllable that makes the rhyme work.   Eons ago, when I was working on a solo for ‘State Solo and Ensemble Festival’ my flute teacher talked me through the music.  He put words to it that would help me keep the […]

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May 9, 2014

Musings on the importance of the first line

A lot of people talk about having a hook, or if we are going for a fishing metaphor lure, that catches the reader’s attention long enough to hook them and draw them in… but there’s a lot more to it than that. The first line in any story tends to set the tone.  It clues […]

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April 28, 2014

Poetry: Part 2 Interrelationships

As stated in the overview, emotion, rhythm and meaning are building blocks of poetry.  In Part 1 we discussed them in relationship to words, now it’s time to think about their relationship to each other. One of the best examples of this relationship is music.  Strip out the lyrics and you are left with rhythm […]

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January 18, 2014

Anatomy of a story – FlashFriday #37

Today I’ve decided to do something different with my ‘post game’ analysis of my FlashFiction story.  Today, rather than watching the actual story develop, I’m going to talk about how the idea of the story developed and the adventure and inspiration behind the story. Last week’s FlashFiction challenge was posted here: Flash! Friday # 37 (and […]

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August 21, 2013

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It’s about Character

I was given a book, “The Writer’s Lab (a place to experiment with fiction)” by Sexton Burke.  I can’t tell you much about the book yet, but one of the first things it had me do was write down my favorite authors. There are a lot of them.  Fredric Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, Melissa Michaels, […]

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August 16, 2013

Poetry: Part 1 Words and emotion

A friend of mine expressed their sadness at a friend’s passing and lamented the fact that they never got to tell that friend how they really felt about them. When I tried, and failed, to express my sympathies, I ended up sitting in front of my computer composing a poem (half poem, half lyric).  It’s […]

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July 17, 2013

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