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Flogometer 1046 for Ron—are you compelled to turn the page?

by Ray Rhamey Source link Submissions sought. Get fresh eyes on your opening page. Submission directions below. The Flogometer challenge: can you craft a first page that compels me to turn to the next page? Caveat: Please keep in mind that this is entirely subjective. Note: all the Flogometer posts are here. What’s a firsts

David Mack: Five Things I Learned Writing The Midnight Front

by terribleminds Source link The epic first novel in the Dark Arts series. On the eve of World War Two, Nazi sorcerers come gunning for Cade Martin but kill his family instead. His one path of vengeance is to become an apprentice of The Midnight Front — the Allies’ top-secret magickal warfare program — ands

Write! 1.63.0: Copy-Paste Formatting

by Joyful Jerboa Source link In this update, we delivered Paste Formatting option, Added headers folding in Markup, improved the sounds processing and made a couple of other improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new in Write! 1.63.0 Added Paste Formatting option (Ctrl+Alt+V) that allows to quickly apply the same formatting, such as color, bold,s

The Hidden Life of Grace Young

by diannejacob Source link Everyone knows Grace Young is a Chinese food writer. She’s won national awards for each of her three Chinese cookboooks. But as with most successful people, there’s much more to her than that. Recently she took a subversive turn, mixing traditional and Western dishes to cook in a wok. In this video,s

We Live by Stories

by JW Source link We love hearing stories of other people’s misfortunes – not terrible misfortunes, we don’t like that, but if somebody has taken a really expensive holiday, we don’t mind hearing that their flight was canceled and they had to sleep on the airport floor, and that there was no snow on thes

Sneak Peek at Story Drills: Character Arcs

by Melissa Donovan Source link Fiction writing exercise: character arcs. Today’s post offers a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Story Drills: Fiction Writing Exercises for Building Storytelling Skills. This exercise examines character arcs. Enjoy! Character Arcs In storytelling, an arc is a path of transformation. A character arc is the journey that a characters

How to Publish a Short Story: Submit Your Story

by Sarah Gribble Source link Almost two months ago, we started this journey to find out how to publish a short story. We’ve drafted, we’ve gotten feedback, we’ve edited. If you’ve been following along, you should have a completed short story by now. (Mine’s ready. Is yours?) This week, you’re sending that story out! Justs

Two Solicitation Bewares: Aimee Ann / Red Headed Book Lover Blog; Book Writing Inc.

by noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Strauss) Source link Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I’ve gotten a number of reports of solicitation by the individuals/outfits below. Both are services you might want to avoid. AIMEE ANN / RED HEADED BOOK LOVER BLOG Back in December, I posted a warning about this blogger on Writer Beware’s Facebooks

Build a Rock-Solid Content Foundation: A New Class from Copyblogger

by Sonia Simone Source link This could be an easy time to be intimidated by content marketing. Weak content is sinking to the bottom, buried by the sheer mass of content being churned out across the globe. Content strategy has all kinds of complex new tools that seem like you need an MBA to uses

MARSH HARRIER by Greg Rappleye

by Courtney Harler Source link Though I bled a bit, a poultice was applied and soon enough, I dried.