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March 13, 2018
Macro Monday Thought It Was Time To Thaw
by terribleminds Source link We’re stuck in a repeated cycle of snow-thaw-snow-thaw, and today we’re getting… *checks weather* more snow? Whatever. Goddamnit, weather, get your shit together oh ha ha ha you can’t because the climate is drunk on our fumes. ANYWHO, so what’s up everyone? Here’s what’s up with me, real quick — I’ms
March 12, 2018
Please! No More Guest Posts Accepted Here!
by Anne Wayman Source link Back in the day, I’d look forward to the occasional email from a fellow writer asking if they could do some guest posts for me. Often it would turn out to be an exchange – they’ do one for me and I’d return the favor. Sure, we knew it mights
The Act of Writing Is Its Own Reward
by JW Source link I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, sos
How to Write a Good Villain: 4 Dangerous Tips From Black Panther
by Monica M. Clark Source link A couple of weeks ago, I saw the Marvel blockbuster Black Panther. I’m not a big superhero movie person, but I hear that that they generally involve a hero who saves the world. So imagine my surprise when I left the theater still thinking about Erik Killmonger — thes
New Indie Book Release: Al Ravien’s Night (H.M. Jones)
by Alan Kealey Source link New Indie Book Release: Al Ravien’s Night – H.M. Jones YA Science-Fiction (185 Pages – February 2018) Al Ravien’s Night is a Dystopian Sci-Fi young adult novel about a teen, his robo-monkey,…
March 11, 2018
3 Surprising Benefits of Chatbots (No Creep Factor Required)
by Sonia Simone Source link When you hear the word “bot,” what goes through your head? For me, it’s a toss-up: Election sabotage, death threats on Twitter, or the Cybermen. Not an awesome list of associations. But late last week, I happened to catch a session with Andrew Warner at Social Media Marketing World ons
Review: A Beautiful Morning by Ashley Ellington Brown
by Barbara Scott Source link A Beautiful Morning: How a Morning Ritual Can Feed Your Soul and Transform Your Life is an inspiring and practical guidebook about the most important moment of the day – the morning – which can establish a person’s mood and sense of well-being for the rest of the day.…
Sarah Elkins: Five Things I Learned Writing Psychic Underground: The Facility
by terribleminds Source link Being psychic is just another aspect of life for Neila Roddenberry. So are dreams of a past life as Nikola Tesla. She’s sure that last part is the result of reading the wrong mind at the wrong time without realizing it. Neither are things she talks about much. Her friends knows
March 10, 2018
Use rhetorical devices to evoke readers’ emotion
by Carol Despeaux Fawcett Source link My mom loved puzzles. She spent most of my childhood in our little mom amd pop grocery store, and in between ringing up customers, stocking shelves, and keeping me occupied, she loved to work on puzzles. Crosswords. Cryptograms. Hangman. Word search. Maybe this is where my love of wordss
Be Specific
by JW Source link Always assume the reader is at least as smart as you are. Show, Don’t Tell. It’s coaching, not teaching. Be specific. If you can’t paint a picture of it, it’s an abstraction. If you can paint a picture of it, it’s a specificity. Good writing is specific writing, and specific writings
