Due to my error with the sign up forms, this week, there are two Tuesday Guest Bloggers. Say hello to LB Joyce…. When did you begin writing? I began writing about five years ago and believe me, it was something I never expected to take on. I have always loved to read, but write?…
I said we’d try something different this year. A new day for the guest bloggers to take center stage along with a Q and A format with the same questions for everyone. I thought it would be fun for you to read how the author got started, why they chose their genre and their writing…
Say hello to today’s guest blogger Jeanne Oates Estridge who has some tips about living the writing life…. 1) Open yourself to every experience that comes along. Play soccer. Work in a commercial kitchen. Go fly fishing. Hunt for diamonds. Try exotic foods. Your characters are going to need lots and lots of interesting experiences…
Say hello to this week’s guest blogger, Joan Ramirez, who tells us how she plots her novels… I’m a great believer in exercise as stimulus for writing a novel. While doing yoga, I tune into my inner psyche to think about my protagonist and how I will introduce her to the reader in the first…
Madeline McEwen is back with us again to offer words of encouragement during NaNoWriMo and share her wonderful cartoons… If you are reading this at 23:59 you are almost half way through the Nano experience. Whether you’re a first timer or a seasoned aficionado, either way, at this point you may be beginning to feel…
Say hello to today’s guest blogger, Ann Everett who offers us advice on something that can often be an Achilles’ heel even for published writers… Overwriting: This is a mistake all new writers make. They over explain either through description or action. Heck, in first drafts, I still do it. Here are some examples: Gus pulled his gun belt tight…
Today Angela Drake is back with us and sharing what she found while researching her novel and gives us a tour of its location (which might be a good spot for some R and R from writing)- Years ago when I started AN OZARKS CHRISTMAS, I knew the story had to be set in Eureka Springs. As…
Let’s say hello to today’s guest blogger, Dora Bramden who tells us why she’s a romance writer… As a child I loved reading fairy stories and magical worlds like the Narnia books. Kings and queens and ordinary girls becoming princesses spirited me away from a sometimes difficult life of illness. Escaping into a book was…
Say hello to today’s guest blogger, romance author, Mageela Troche… Ernest Hemingway said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” When you are chronically ill, writing can feel exactly like that. I suffer from Fibromyalgia. If you have never heard of this disease, it is a…
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Madeline McEwan is back with another humorous post about what it means to be a writer (and her sketches)… Terminology Pro and Con – This idiom is taken from the Latin: pro for “for” and con for “against.” Pro and Ant – [do not muddle with Pro and Con] Protagonist [hero] – the main character in a…
