L.V. Gaudet's Blog, page 4
November 21, 2021
Why I Stopped Commenting on Most Social Media Posts
Don’t fall for the open-ended questions meant to inspire discussion in writers’ groups. While some of these questions are people legitimately looking to start a meaningful discussion, there are also others posting them with ulterior motives.
October 24, 2021
Book Review – Witchslayer’s Scion by L. T. Getty
If you are into swords and sorcery that lies heavier on the storyline and less focused on the magic itself, you will enjoy L. T. Getty's Witchslayer's Scion.
October 23, 2021
Revising Menus in WordPress
How to create, add, to, or edit your Wordpress menu.
October 18, 2021
Dark Shadows Short Story Release
Manitoban author Lori Gaudet’s short story “Dark Shadows” is making its debut in Dragon Soul Press’s new horror anthology All Dark Places 3, released in print and eBook October 30, 2021.
October 16, 2021
Why Does the Climb Up Feel Longer Than the Fall Down? aka My Stories Are Rejecting Me.
You sit down and want to write, but your mind just won't go there. An invisible abyss stretches, impossibly vast and seemingly nonexistent at the same time, between your wish to write and the story so tantalizingly near yet far. You feel for all the world like the story itself is refusing you, rejecting you.
October 9, 2021
Cruel Is Our Self Imposed Goals
Thirty-one gruesome days of watching calories, eating healthier, eating smaller portions, zero alcohol, zero snacking, and exercising daily.
October 2, 2021
Oh, How Life Can Keep Getting In The Way
Sometimes life just gets in the way of our promises we make to ourselves and to others. At times life just makes us suck, right? We make promises we’ll do something and then before you know it time has passed and it didn’t happen. Of course, we can’t just put all the blame on outside […]
August 29, 2021
Did You Miss Me?
Or, more accurately, did you even notice I was gone? No, this isn’t one of those feel sorry for me deals. Those are so cliché and overdone, aren’t they? I’m more of a realist than that. With the world going a little more down that dark twisted path of an angst horror story each day, […]
July 25, 2021
Genres Definitions Defined – Come Under My Umbrella, We All Fit in Here: Umbrella Terms
Tagging every subplot and minor storyline is more likely to make a reader question the validity of your tags than to make them embrace them.
July 18, 2021
Where Did My Genre Go In This New Genre Generation?
Tagging every subplot and minor storyline is more likely to make a reader question the validity of your tags than to make them embrace them.
