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July 12, 2017
Purple Prose: Three Thing You Can Do to Banish it from Your Writing
Beware the purple prose, the overblown writing that flies furious through the noon day sun and creeps, sullen and dark, through the midnight depths. Snicker. Sometimes I crack myself up. I was meeting with my critique group and described something as purple prose. Cricket cricket cricket. No one had heard the term before and if […]
July 11, 2017
The Search Engine for Writers: Writer’s Knowledge Base
The Writer’s Knowledge Database is all about helping writers find the information they need to get the job done. I first heard about this search engine three years ago, but hadn’t visited in a while. Elizabeth Spann Craig is a writer who tweets about . . . can you guess . . . writing! In […]
July 10, 2017
Evaluating Possible Writing Jobs
Yesterday I spotted a really interesting infographic on the Make a Living Writing blog. It is a quiz that helps you evaluate whether or not you should take a particular writing gig. This is particularly handy if you are fairly new to free lancing. Why? Because it will help you face some uncomfortable truths. Such […]
July 9, 2017
New Sendak Book
Did you know that a new Maurice Sendak book is in the works? That’s quite an accomplishment given the fact that Sendak died about five years ago. Lynn Caponera, president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, discovered the manuscript when she was going through the late artist’s files. She found a typewritten manuscript called Presto and […]
July 6, 2017
What’s My Story: Magazine vs Picture Book
What is it that makes a magazine piece different from a picture book? We ended up discussing this during a critique group meeting earlier this week. There are two primary differences. 1 — Illustration possibilities. Due to the format, the typical picture book has 32 pages. Some of these pages may become back matter. There is […]
What’s My Story: Magazine vs Picture Boo
What is it that makes a magazine piece different from a picture book? We ended up discussing this during a critique group meeting earlier this week. There are two primary differences. 1 — Illustration possibilities. Due to the format, the typical picture book has 32 pages. Some of these pages may become back matter. There is […]
July 5, 2017
Writing Time: How Much Time Are You Actually Writing?
I had to laugh last night when I saw this graphic. What do I do when I’m supposed to be writing? I’d love to say that 100% of my writing time is spent writing but that’s not true. If I have a great deal of unstructured time, I can find all kinds of things to […]
July 4, 2017
Taking a Break from a Particular Project
That photo to the left? That’s something of a self-portrait. No, I’m not a cat. But it is a mental/emotional self-portrait. Mentally, I’ve flopped over on the floor. Why? Because yesterday, I finished drafting my latest nonfiction book. I know, I know, working on the 4th of July. How unpatriotic can I get? Does it […]
July 3, 2017
Keeping if Flexible on the 4th of July
Well, it’s that time again. Time for my annual 4th of July post. Normally I tell you that I’m spending time with my family and taking time off to recharge my batteries. Then I encourage you to do the same. And that’s good advice. If you don’t have a deadline nipping at your heals. Besides, […]
July 2, 2017
Why You Should Brainstorm aka Don’t Always Go with Idea #1
I’m half way through judging entries for a flash fiction contest. That’s 40 pieces and I’ve read 20 so far. The funny thing? The number of duplicates. I’m not saying that entire stories have been duplicated but I will tell you that I’m seeing the same themes again and again. Granted this is a women’s […]
