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6 Best Last Minute Christmas Gift Ideas

by Joyful Jerboa Source link The Christmas countdown is on and in a couple of days, you will be exchanging gorgeous presents with your loved ones. But what about those who live far away and shipment might take several weeks for your present to get there? …or it’s a last minute decision to buy someones

How do I pitch to a publication

by The Proof Angel Source link This post has some good advice about approaching a publication with your idea. Except for one thing. Never start your letter or email with “I am writing…” Of course you were writing. If you hadn’t written, the other person wouldn’t be reading. Just get on with explaining what yous

One Sleepless Night at the White House by John Murphy

by Chicago Literati Source link [Late at night in the President’s bedroom; Trump is having difficulty falling asleep] TRUMP’S HAIR: Donnie?…Donnie?… DONALD TRUMP: […] Take a second to help us out on Patreon. Every bit helps!

Freelance Writing Goals – Why You Need Them & How to Reach Them

by Jennifer Mattern Source link It happened. Again. I opened my feed reader this morning and saw yet another blog post telling readers to stop making goals and resolutions for the New Year. This one happened to be about health-related goals, though I’ve seen plenty specific to freelance writing goals too. But guess what… Thiss

Review: Serendipity by Thomas J. Thorson

by John Staughton Source link ★★★★★ The big picture that we’re taught in school is rarely the completely accurate picture, and curiosity can bring you down some fascinating and unforgettable rabbit holes. In Serendipity: Seemingly Random Events, Insignificant Decisions, and Accidental Discoveries that Altered History by Thomas J.… Take a second to help us outs

Points of view: 8 tips for using multiple POVs expertly

by Jordan Source link Writing a novel using multiple points of view (POVs) requires juggling different narrators’ voices. Here are 8 tips for using multiple viewpoint characters in your book: 1. What is point of view? Understand different types of POV 2. Use changes in POV to make characters real  and more complex 3. Uses

Flog a BookBubber 119: J.A. Konrath

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

The Last Jedi: A Mirror, Slowly Cracking

by terribleminds Source link [Warning: deeper into this review, you will be walking onto the muddy streets of lawless SPOILERTOWN. Ye have been warned.] This will be less a review of The Last Jedi (Episode VIII) than it will be… my thoughts? An analysis? Me opening my head like a flip-top Pac-Men and seeing what globs ofs

Comic: On Not Making New Year’s Resolutions

by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Source link I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m always torn between making and not making New Year’s Resolutions because it’s so easy to make them but then disappointing and demoralizing when you realize early in the year that there’s no way you’ll ever be able to makes

Do Food and Politics Mix on Social Media?

by diannejacob Source link A guest post by Jamie Schler Last year, after signing a contract for my first cookbook, I decided to Tweet again — but on food and politics. Not just food. I already used Facebook almost every day as a marketing tool. I posted about my food writing projects, shared links tos