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January 15, 2019
Spinning Black Holes
A burst of X-Ray from a galaxy 290 million light-years away, which scientists believe happened as a result of a star moving towards a supermassive black hole, could shed light on how black hole and galaxy are formed.
Via – Veritasium
January 14, 2019
Motivation Monday Quotes!
Nerd Fact: Why not merely clipped wings? Well, because most birds can fly with this clip, which eliminates its usefulness. One Wing Clip. …Clipping the feathers on only one wing will certainly prevent your bird from flying, but it will also throw off her balance, increasing the likelihood she’ll injure herself (source found here).
January 12, 2019
2018 Recommended Reading List (Part 1)
Featured image from the cover art for The Dark Issue 37, “Boy with a Torch Facing Smoke Monsters” by grandfailureWoo hoo! BONDYE BON has made its way on another amazing list. I’m both honored and delighted to be mentioned with other fantastic writers! #2019Goals
My short fiction recommendations are split into five categories: Part 1 – Dark Fantasy/Horror and Space-Based Science Fiction; Part 2 – Earthbound Science Fiction and First World Fantasy; Part 3 (coming soon) – Sec...
January 11, 2019
How I Abandon Organization While Planning a Novel
Sometimes people look at my process and say, “that’s so organized, I have no idea how you do this in such a tidy way, I could never do that. How do you do it so neatly?”
The answer is that I don’t try, at first. That organization is the last thing I do, not the first.
At first I just write whatever is crowding my mind. No order, rhyme, nor reason. I type this out in gdocs, mostly, though I have been known to do it longhand in my notebook and then transcribe. I title the file “Every...
How to convey accents in fiction writing: Beyond phonetic spelling – by Louise Harnby…
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
This article offers guidance on how to self-edit your fiction writing so that accents don’t become the primary story. Do your characters speak with an accent? All of us speak in ways that are distinctive; we just don’t notice our own accents because they’re ours and we’re used to them. Oxford Dictionaries defines accent as ‘A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class.’
Authors who...
January 10, 2019
Facebook is Making Me Petty
Lol. I had to reblog this! It’s incredibly candid and sincere. Linda puts a name to those silent lurkers on Facebook: voyeurs. Perhaps, I should get to pruning useless branches on my FB tree, too. And pruning begets growth.
Questions to Consider When Plotting a Scene – by C.S.Lakin…
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
on Jane Friedman site: Some writers can sit at their computers, come up with an idea for a scene, and start writing. If they’re experienced novelists, they might write a pretty good scene out the gate.
It’s likely, though, they’ll end up rewriting the scene multiple times until it starts to gel. Or they’ll throw the scene out and chalk up the hour or two spent as part of the process.
And that’s not a bad process necessarily. It might be just the process a...
January 9, 2019
How Could 1 Body Decompose at 3 Different Rates? – by Sue Coletta…
Sue, Chris, I had to reblog this! Forensics is one of my favorite things!
January 8, 2019
10 Handy Writing Tips – Part 1
The Truth About Wattpad
I haven’t watched the video yet, but oh boy, do I look forward to it. #SpillingTea
So, I’m sure some of you checked your emails and thought, no, not again, she is going to complain about Wattpad! Unfollow!
Well, before you decide to unfollow me or think this is a rant post, it’s not.
After reviewing my stats recently, I saw that Sharing a Post: The Truth About Wattpad Stars is the most viewed post on my blog. However, my friend removed her post about her experience with Wattpad a...
