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Writing Prompt: How to Choose Your Own (Writing) Adventure

by Sue Weems Source link When I was a kid, I loved reading Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novels that had alternate paths written into the story. If you aren’t familiar with them, they were elementary or middle grade chapter books that begin a story and at key moments, offer the reader a choice: “To go through the portal,s

New Indie Book Release: Daring – The Candomble Guard (Danielle Bellwood)

by Alan Kealey Source link New Indie Book Release: Daring (The Candomble Guard) – Danielle Bellwood Science Fiction / Dystopian (477 Pages – January 2018) Daring (The Candomble Guard) is a dystopian love story that is filled…

Scam Down Under: Love of Books Brisbane / Julie “Jules” McGregor

by noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Strauss) Source link Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware It’s a familiar story. Entrepreneur sets up publishing company. Publishing company charges fees, but it’s not a vanity publisher–certainly not! Authors are just investing in their own success. But…oh dear. Authors receive proofs riddled with errors and finished books so badly produceds

How I Learned to Love (Ruthless) Editing

by Loryn Thompson Source link I love editing. It is, by far, my most favorite part of writing. I love editing my own work, other people’s work, bad copy on my dentist’s website … Give me a rough draft with poor sentence structure and I’ll entertain myself for hours. Most writers seem to have as

The Fat Girls Club: Paris Bound by Lila Johnson

by Naka Jackson Source link The Fat Girls Club: Paris Bound is the sequel to Lila Johnson’s Fat Girls Club, a fun and emotional novel about a group of friends who gather together to lose weight. As the title suggests, Paris Bound finds the group traveling to Europe, and all of the temptations it provides,s

Writing a good book: 10 ingredients of great novels

by Jordan Source link Writing a good book is something every fiction writer aspires to. When writers ask for help writing a book, a popular question is ‘Is my idea good enough?’ Having a great story idea to start with helps. Yet a satisfying novel is a combination of many key components. Here are 10s

Caution: a bestseller may not be a good role model for your writing

by Ray Rhamey Source link I recently did a critique for a good writer and in our correspondence she mentioned that she had been studying the first few sentences from a number of Stephen King novels to see how he did it, and then she emulated what she’d seen. The result was an opening thats

Flash Fiction Challenge: They Fight Crime (Amongst Other Things)

by terribleminds Source link THEY FIGHT CRIME. Yeah, go ahead, click that link. In it, you’ll get two characters who are randomly paired together to fight crime. This is the basis for your next story. Now, the one change is — the two characters don’t actually have to fight crime. But you must include boths

Is It Writer’s Block, Fatigue or Something Else?

by Anne Wayman Source link Okay, it’s not writer’s block. I know, because look, here’s a whole blog post. Actually I don’t believe in writer’s block for me, which is another story. Today I spent about an hour trying to get started writing my regular Thursday morning post. Finally I just stopped and looked inside,s

How to identify blog comment spam

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