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July 20, 2017
Got a personal story to tell… should you make it into a novel?
Not much I can say about today’s Re-blog…
It’s from Roz Morris…
It will be unfailingly Good :-)
This week I’ve been advising a writer who wants to gather his professional experiences into a daring expose of … well, I’m not allowed to reveal that. But there is malpractice, corruption and a lot of harm being done to innocent people. Publishers have told him they’re wary because he doesn’t have a platform as an investigative reporter. Others have suggested that he could make his...
July 19, 2017
It’s International Jane Friedman Day !
[image error] Well, actually, it’s not really “International” Jane Friedman Day—just a day on this blog when I’ll share 6 articles by Jane that have accumulated in my Bookmarks. :-)
If you use my handy Top-Tags Widget (down a bit in the left side-bar) and click on her name, you’ll find this post (’cause I’ve tagged it…) and a copious amount of additional posts featuring a woman who’s said, on her About Page:
“I have a special interest in how the digital age is transforming writing careers, publishing, and...
July 18, 2017
TEN BOOKS TO HELP YOUR CHILD BECOME MORE COMPASSIONATE by Susan Dobrodt
It may be obvious; but…
If you don’t have children in the home, do share this Re-blog with someone who does…
Of course, ardent writers may, naturally, read it for research…
This is a difficult time for schools, for our country and our world. No matter what your beliefs, parents and teachers can’t help but be concerned about what is happening and how our kids have been exposed to it. Even if we do our best to protect them from the media, they go to school or to sports or to art...
July 17, 2017
Attention All Bookworms, Bibliophiles, and Ardent Readers
I discovered a “book subscription service” that may not be for everyone; but, for those who can appreciate it, it could be the best thing that’s ever happened… [image error]
One other caveat—it costs $30/month—leading to two or more folks sharing an account?
The name of the service is PageHabit.
Here are a few things they say about themselves:
“We are changing the way people share stories by creating a completely immersive reading experience for every kind of book nerd. We deliver the best new release boo...
July 16, 2017
Suspense: storytelling’s big tease – guest post at Writers Helping Writers
Well, this may be a first on this blog…
Roz Morris did a guest post on someone else’s blog and I’m Re-blogging her announcement of that guest post…
Happy link-jumping :-)
I’m at Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi’s blog today with a post about how to use suspense. I think I first mentioned it on this blog a few weeks ago, but actually I got the date wrong, so you might have been waiting a while for this.
Which is exactly how suspense works, of course. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
...July 15, 2017
Use Your Thesaurus with Caution
Good advice in today’s Re-blog…
As writers, words are our friends. Our best times are when they flow from us with beauty or power. They can sometimes trip us up too though, when we overthink them. A thesaurus can be very helpful when you’re stuck for a good word, or when you want to avoid using the same word excessively in the same paragraph. It can sometimes take a nasty while to create a sentence when there’s only one word available that you can think of to convey what...
July 14, 2017
Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Fifty-Two
What is Reality?
by
Alexander M Zoltai
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Sam worked hard to keep up with current events. He ventured through many social media spaces to form his opinions…
One day, on what he thought was a whim, he decided to search a few of those spaces with the word “reality”…
He created a special document to hold his collection of the comments he thought could help him form his own opinions—quite a mixed bag of thoughts and feelings:
“No such thing as reality, we’re all fooling ourselves, life is...
July 13, 2017
Building Readers and Relationships by Angie Moore
Delightful re-blog today—also an important exploration of what it takes to be a top-notch librarian…
Growing up I had the sweetest elementary librarian named Mrs. Grove. She would sing to us, read us poetry, let us take turns holding the cutest stuffed Paddington Bear, and even had a wait list for favorites like The White Stallion, The New Kid on the Block or Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. She was my librarian from Kindergarten through 5th grade at Wilson Elementary and is...
July 12, 2017
Did You Know You Probably Don’t Own Your E-books?
Image Courtesy of Olivier Bourgeois ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/ornicar69-54520
I’ve written about a corporate “device” or “digital method” called Digital Rights Management (DRM) before—here are 5 past posts that talk about it…
When I say you “probably” don’t own your e-books, I mean, if you’ve bought them all from Amazon and certain other retailers, you don’t own them, because they have DRM woven into their soft warm bodies…
A couple of those past posts about DRM also talk about...
July 11, 2017
The Beginnings of my Reading Life by Caroline Petrow
Today’s re-blog has a reading teacher being honest enough to talk about her struggle with her own reading life & saying things like this about her students:
“Unintentionally, as I place more importance on growing a reading life of my own, the amount of books in theirs’ expand as well.”
I am an ambivalent reader. I always have been. That is, until a few months ago. As a child I learned to read with little difficulty and fondly remember childhood books. Examples of avid readers...
