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Interact with your audience

I amnot a talkative person.  Even at familygatherings I’ll just sit and listen to other conversations.  The reason I’m bringing this up in a writingblog, is that my quiet nature also applies to social media.  If someone leaves a comment on a tweet, I’llprobably spend a few minutes debating if I should reply.  And the vast majority of the time I don’t.  This can be an issue since one of the

Writing Newsletter Fourth Quarter 2021

 Inthe past three months I’ve republished 3 of my stories.  They are: “Rest in Peace,” “In the Victor’s Footsteps,” and “Memories.”I also published the short story “A Christmas Miracle?”Thingsare a bit less hectic, and I have managed to do some more writing.  Not as much as I want, but more is better.Ithink the only news item is that yesterday I posted my writing goals for 2022.***

My writing goals for 2022

 Well,I didn’t meet any of my writing goals for 2021. I think the main reason being I had too many other things taking up mytime, from work to helping my parents around the house and farm.  Will 2022 be different?  We’ll just have to wait and see.Mymain goal for 2021 was to finish TheUncapped Pen: a collection of fifty stories covering various aspects ofwriting from author’s arguing with

Free story idea ��� Four quick ideas for TV series

Ihave a lot of ideas for stories.�� Like,if I wrote a novel���s worth of them every month, I���d still most likely diebefore getting through them all.�� I willadmit that some of the ideas probably suck, but I think there are some that agood writer could make something of them.��I���ll just never get a chance to.��So, I give them to the world.�� Ifyou can make something of these, go right ahead.�� And

Free story idea – Four quick ideas for TV series

Ihave a lot of ideas for stories.  Like,if I wrote a novel’s worth of them every month, I’d still most likely diebefore getting through them all.  I willadmit that some of the ideas probably suck, but I think there are some that agood writer could make something of them. I’ll just never get a chance to. So, I give them to the world.  Ifyou can make something of these, go right ahead.  And

Random Writing Tips ��� Know your limitations

��Ifyou have difficulty writing rousing speeches ��� which is a skill few have ��� it���sprobably best to not write a story that requires one.�� I watched something recently ��� I won���t saywhat ��� but there was a point where the bad guys were winning and the good guysneeded a big, motivating speech.�� So thehero stepped up and, said some words.��The good guys got fired up and went on to win the day, but

Random Writing Tips – Know your limitations

 Ifyou have difficulty writing rousing speeches – which is a skill few have – it’sprobably best to not write a story that requires one.  I watched something recently – I won’t saywhat – but there was a point where the bad guys were winning and the good guysneeded a big, motivating speech.  So thehero stepped up and, said some words. The good guys got fired up and went on to win the day, but

Year end clean up

Asthe year draws to a close, it’s as good a time as any to do some cleaning.  Do you have twenty blog posts you started butnever finished?  Go through them and seeif there are any you can salvage for next year. Did you start to organize your writing notebooks?  Why not finish doing that.  Did you start to follow everyone on Twitterwho follows your favorite author?  That’sprobably more of a

Free story idea ��� In the Victor���s Footsteps

Ihave a lot of ideas for stories.�� Like,if I wrote a novel���s worth of them every month, I���d still most likely diebefore getting through them all.�� I willadmit that some of the ideas probably suck, but I think there are some that agood writer could make something of them.��I���ll just never get a chance to.��So, I give them to the world.�� Ifyou can make something of these, go right ahead.�� And

Free story idea – In the Victor’s Footsteps

Ihave a lot of ideas for stories.  Like,if I wrote a novel’s worth of them every month, I’d still most likely diebefore getting through them all.  I willadmit that some of the ideas probably suck, but I think there are some that agood writer could make something of them. I’ll just never get a chance to. So, I give them to the world.  Ifyou can make something of these, go right ahead.  And