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How to Come Up With a Title
My favorite genre for pure reading pleasure is the pulp and mass market crime fiction of the golden age—roughly 1929 (the year The Maltese Falcon was published) to the early 1960s (when secret agents started to take over). Some of the titles from that period reach out and grab you by the lapels. A couple…
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Writing Grows in Fits and Starts!
Originally posted on Pen & Paper: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? So often I hear people say, “oh, I can’t do that” and I say “ why not?” Believing in you and what you can be, what you can become, is totally dependent on believing you can. It really is…
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Author Inspiration and This Week’s Writing Links
Originally posted on Staci Troilo: Ciao, amici! How was your week? If you read my Tuesday post, you know I had a release—one I wasn’t expecting and had to hurry to prepare for (The Scout). But that actually wasn’t my biggest accomplishment in the last seven days. That honor goes to Astral Conspiracy Series Book…
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Seven Links 7/27/19 Traci Kenworth
Seven Links…7/27/19 Traci Kenworth Writing: 1. https://killzoneblog.com/2019/07/on-producing-my-own-audiobook.html “We all know audiobooks are booming. As reported by Forbes: The publishing industry’s 2018 year-end results are here, and audiobooks did astoundingly well. According to the Association of American Publishers, which collects and reports on data shared by many publishers across the country, estimated publisher revenue for downloaded audio increased…
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Book Talk…7/26/19: What I’m Reading in YA. Traci Kenworth
Book Talk…7/26/19: What I’m Reading in YA Traci Kenworth I’m reading: Graceling by Kristen Cashore, Sightwitch by Susan Dennard, Windwitch by Susan Dennard, The Evil Queen by Gena Showalter, Happily Ever After by Melanie Ciellar, and Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. I’m also reading How to Write YA Novels by Mary Kole.
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Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Teus. Challenge #Poetry#Haiku
Write one of the forms of poetry using synonyms of Kind and Shift: Crazy bug Traci Kenworth The nature of Family, a crazy bug Their stretch endless.
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An interview with author Richard Dee
Originally posted on Joy Lennick: Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing a writer who you may, or may not, be familiar with; but one, I’m sure you will return to, once you have enjoyed a taste of his excellent, entertaining books and writing style. Hi Richard, it’s a pleasure to have you here today…
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Deeper into the Inferential Layer of the Word-Pond #amwriting
Originally posted on Life in the Realm of Fantasy: For the last two weeks, we have discussed how, in the word-pond that we call Story, below the surface is the wide layer of unknown quantity: the Inferential Layer. But as we go deeper, we discover the vast expanse of words is comprised of many smaller,…