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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 […]
June 29, 2017
Empathy: Why I Write What I Write
Black Lives Matter (Abdo 2015). Hidden Human Computers (Abdo 2017). What Are Race and Racism? (Abdo 2017). Twelve books since 2014 and 3 of them are about race. And don’t forget my book on the Dakota Access Pipeline. As a society, we tell ourselves that that is all about the environment and energy but it too […]
June 28, 2017
Cutting Words: What to do when you have way too many
About two weeks ago, I blogged about having to cut paragraphs and scenes. This week, I’m cutting again but in a different way. Late last week I got my editor’s comments on the electoral college book. For a variety of reasons, my first chapter needs to be shorter. No big deal, except that it is. […]
June 27, 2017
It Stinks! What to do when you can’t stand what you wrote
Every now and again it happens to the best of us. You work and work on an article, blog post or chapter and . . . you just have to face it. It stinks. Can it be saved? Maybe yes, maybe no. But the first thing to do is walk away. The blog post that […]
June 26, 2017
Your Online Persona: Reality with Limits
Recently I read a Writer’s Digest post about platform building and letting readers know the “real you.” Something the author emphasized that I thought was interesting is that your readers need to feel like they know you. But really? They don’t. This is because there are things that we all hold back. Sometimes it is […]
