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“Don’t be afraid to be weird.” Advice for young writers from WEAVE A CIRCLE ROUND’s debut author, Kari Maaren in a Three Questions interview

by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Source link I met Kari Maaren through a filk music convention, and fell in love with her song Being Watson (which almost always makes teary-eyed). She also is cartoonist with a webcomic, West of Bathurst, and an active one, It Never Rains. After being a fan of her other work, Is

One Word with the Power to Defeat Writer’s Doubt

by Bryan Hutchinson Source link Writing is hard. Sure, there’s the indescribable sense of flow when the words pour out oh-so-effortlessly, there’s that stroke of brilliance when a plot twist strikes out of nowhere, there’s…

Texture Is More Important Than Fact

by JW Source link At times we can pollute our texts with too much of the obvious. It is often a good thing to have space instead so that we can fill it out with imaginative muscle. Always ask yourself: how much research is enough? Don’t corrupt your texts with facts facts facts. Texture iss

Parallelism: Keep Your Verb Tenses Consistent

by Liz Bureman Source link A few weeks ago, our group of friends was planning a potluck. One of the girls said she was planning on making vegetarian chili, cornbread, or baking cookies. I cringed internally because the flow of the sentence was wrong and hurt me on the inside. The issue: mismatched parallelism. Hows

Featured Indie Book: Plus One (Aleatha Romig)

by Alan Kealey Source link Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Romantic Comedy Plus One by Aleatha Romig. Plus One (Lighter Ones) is a fun, sexy, new stand-alone novel from New York Times bestselling author Aleatha…

3 Simple Ways to Get Started with Relationship-Building Webinars

by Chris Garrett Source link While we are often introduced to new and shiny marketing technologies, webinars are still great ways to interact with our audiences. They help you build relationships, teach, and discover and drill down on your audience’s wants, needs, objections, and problems. But the thought of producing webinars can be overwhelming ifs

Review: Footsteps in the Dark: Stories of the Bizarre and Unusual by Carlo Armenise

by SPR Source link Although a collection of short stories, Carlo Armenise has managed to make Footsteps in the Dark: Stories of the Bizarre and Unusual a cohesive whole by creating an atmosphere that radiates through each page. Without delving into exaggeration or fantasy, Armenise has managed to capture what we all fear lurking ins

Flog a BookBubber 139: Celina Grace

by Ray Rhamey Source link Writers, send your prologue/first chapter to FtQ for a “flogging” critique. Email as an attachment. Many of the folks who utilize BookBub are self-published, and because we hear over and over the need for self-published authors to have their work edited, it’s educational to take a hard look at theirs

From $15 to $300 per Article – and the Most Important Thing I Learned About Pricing Along the Way

by Ciaran McEneaney Source link I still remember the very first article I wrote. It was a guide for the ski resort of Ischgl, an 870-word masterpiece of travel writing. At least, that’s what it should have been considering it took me the best part of an entire Sunday to write. It wasn’t terrible nors

Flash Fiction: Space Operatics

by terribleminds Source link It’s May the Fourth, c’mon. So obviously the only choice of what to write is: SPACE OPERA SPACE OPERA SPAAAAAACE OPERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa So, get on that. Whatever it means, it means. Length: ~1500 words Due by: Friday, May 11th, noon EST Post at your online space (“space”) — Link to it ins