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I’ve posted the third installment of the story I wrote for our writers group anthology, Passages. Please check it out.

click the image to read RJ Minnick’s Love’s Door at “Do You Know Where YOUR Story Is?”

TIP ~ INKAS ~ #5

Moving on with INKAS… Something perhaps pertinent to our times,  NEWS FEATURE & NEWS EDITORIAL.

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We  hear a lot today about “fake news”. While historically there have been plenty of news articles containing errors or even purposefully misdirecting information, the abundance of disinformation and accusations that accurately written objective  articles are the phony ones is a relatively recent phenomenon.

It was in 2014 that Craig Silverman coined the term “fake news” when s...

Posting Today on Substack

I’ve posted the second installment of the story I wrote for our writers group anthology, Passages. Please check it out.

click the image to read RJ Minnick’s Love’s Door at “Do You Know Where YOUR Story Is?”

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A Writer’s Work…

…how does yours get done?

We all have different work habits. Especially as writers. Are you a hammock writer? A couch potato writer? a Pelleton writer?

Do you write in frenzied binges and spend your other time roaming the beach or the neighborhood looking for inspiration?

How many projects can you (or do you) work on at once? How’s that workin’ out for you?

While working on at least two novels, I also managed to contribute a story to each of these anthologies– one at a time...

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Issue 2.1 of “Do You Know Where YOUR Story Is?”

featuring: The Set-up…and the Story

Stop by and give it a read!

TIP ~ INKAS ~ #4

A quick reminder to followers, and an introduction for new readers, INKAS are a way I created to list the essentials of certain types of writing.

There are roughly 20 different INKAS, and I’ve been introducing them one by one for writers who are unclear about the differences amongst them. (What are INKAS? …..  TIP ~ INKAS ~ #1) Collectively, for me, Story refers to any tale told – orally or in writing – and told in any form. It can be a true story, it can be done as prose, poetry, or in song. B...

Okay, I plead Guilty. Guilty, guilty, guilty.

I’d like to think we’ve all done it. You know. Procrastinate. Put things off. Lost track of time and/or what we were doing. C’mon, you’ve done it, right? Let something slide because you got busy with other things?

Yes? No?

Okay, so maybe a year is a little much, but, yes, it’s been a year since my last post. I apologize.

To my credit, I’ve re-organized my way(s) of reaching my readers. Well, I’ve organized it. For the first time, really. It wasn’t easy. It took a lot of mulling and musing ...

Smuggle and Stitch, part 2 – with samples

I promised I would share some examples of this type of revising. This may not be the best illustration I could offer, but I didn’t want to make things run too long. It is taken from my current work-in-progress (wip) about five sisters who set out on what may be the last road trip they will ever take together. Remembrances of their past and revelations about the present threaten their relationships and their future. You might suspect that this is a dense novel – relationships amongst five women e...

Smuggle and Stitch

I am mostly through a major revision to one work-in-progress (wip), and facing something similar in another. I’ve been talking about this revision for – like,  I don’t know, five years now. I have probably gone over and revised the same material the standard dozen times, and I still don’t have it quite right.

Problem – in part – is that I’m having to add new material. What that means is that I have to create the new character/storyline/words to add this to the story, THEN I have to figure out...