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Our Italy Food & Wine Writing Workshop

by diannejacob Source link Caio! I’m back from the Valpolicella wine region of Verona, Italy, where my co-host Demet Guzey and I hosted a sold out group of students from the U.S. and Ireland to eat, drink and write. It was our second writing workshop and we hope for more. We stayed at a gorgeouss

Sarah Waters

by JW Source link Read like mad. But try to do it analytically – which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It’s worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work. SARAHs

Homophones: Compliment vs. Complement

by Melissa Donovan Source link Homophones: compliment vs. complement. Homophones are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Sometimes, they’re also spelled differently: compliment vs. complement. Since homophones sound the same, they are often misspelled. Sometimes they’re misspelled because the writer doesn’t know there are two different spellings. In other cases, misspelled homophones ares

How to Write a Book While Working Full-Time

by Jeff Elkins Source link I dream of a day when I can wake up, sip my coffee, write some morning pages, and then work on my latest novel until dinner. Unfortunately for me, and for many of you, that day is not today. I’ve got kids and a house and bills, so I haves

Featured Indie Book: Magus Star Rising (Larry Ivkovich)

by Alan Kealey Source link Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Science-Fiction Novel Magus Star Rising by Larry Ivkovich. Magus Star Rising is a combination of science fiction and mystery/noir, including elements of…

Announcing: The Copyblogger Book Club!

by Sonia Simone Source link I’ve wanted to start a Copyblogger book club for a long time now. My team and I read dozens (maybe hundreds) of writing, marketing, and strategy books every year. And every year, a few stand out as being particularly useful. Now that we’ve started the Killers and Poets Facebook groups

Review: Recall by R. Lawson

by John Staughton Source link The Vietnam War remains one of the most controversial and tumultuous times in American history, leaving a shadowy legacy that affects politics, culture, entertainment and art to this day. Author R. Lawson takes readers back into those confusing times in his new novel, Recall, which falls into the historical fictions

How to write a rewarding series arc

by Jordan Source link Structuring a story is challenging, especially when your story spans multiple books (or, in the case of TV, episodes). Read on for ideas to make your series arcs – of character and plot – rewarding: 1. Outline ideas for individual books’ arcs A writing project as large-scale as a series particularly requiress

Notes from a Writer’s Digest Webinar

by Ray Rhamey Source link I took a Writer’s Digest Webinar a couple of weeks ago. Conducted by an agent with the Donald Maass Literary Agency, Katie Shea Boutillier, the title was “What Agents and Editors are Looking for in First Pages.” Since that’s the usual topic of FtQ, I decided to invest and sees

It’s Time To Talk About The Sandwich

by terribleminds Source link Maybe you’ve heard of it. You take some bread. You spread some peanut butter on it. You put some pickles on it. You smash that motherfucker together. And now it’s a sandwich and you eat it. You’re thinking, as I thought: well, that’s fucking gross. I mean, shit, I like pickles. Is