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Some Lanternfish love
Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: I just discovered this awesome review of Voyage of the Lanternfish. I’m currently working on a sequel called HMS Lanternfish, so now is a great time to join the crew and come along. My Review: I bought and read this book back in January and somehow managed to forget to…
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Creating and Fulfilling Expectations: Books as Products or Works of Art
Originally posted on Audrey Driscoll's Blog: The book as product: specific word count, story arc, number and types of characters, type of ending, and a cover suited to the genre. It may help its author make a living. Or it may not. The book as work of art: whatever gives the writer the feeling of…
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Unpopular Opinion: Beginning Writers Should Focus on Quantity, Not Quality
Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: Have you ever wondered why, as a beginner, writing often feels frustrating and sometimes even pointless? It might be because many beginning writers are focusing on all the wrong things. Most writers who are first starting out have big dreams. They want to be bestselling authors. They want to…
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Ugh!
Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: Today was my flex day. This is usually the time I can get my word count up, but it just didn’t work out that way. Most of this is a personality flaw, and I readily admit that. My errand for the day was to go to the bank and make…
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Writerly Things…7/22/19: How to Bring the Fresh to Horror Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things 7/22/19: Tips to a Fresh Horror Novel Traci Kenworth Don’t Invite Clichés. You know them when you seem them. The same old tried and long dead creatures that never change as they climb from the coffin; run through the hills, shirt flapping; attack tomb raiders, bandages unravelling to a gristly sight; or knock…
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What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera #bookreview #YA #LGBT
Originally posted on Books and Such: Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be on…
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Thursday – A Little Personal – New Stuff
Originally posted on Fiction Favorites: “Let go, Lucy.” “You let go, Little Potato. Wait, what is that noise?” “Look, Lucy. Some green stuff.” “It sure is Little one.” “OMG, Twiggy. There is a guy with a load of green stuff.” “Where, Lucy? I don’t see him.” “You have to look out the door again.” “Wow. Should…
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Tired
Originally posted on Running Forward…My Way: This wasn’t the blog post I was intending to write. The one I was intending to write had a lot more anger. So to the people who like to gossip about me…sorry. You will have to get your entertainment somewhere else. You also may want to re-evaluate your own…
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#Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge
Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 136 #PhotoPrompt Image by Colleen’s Poetry Challenge Use the above photo as the inspiration for your poem. Ask yourself questions and tell a story. Be creative! What does this photo say to you? 106 Looks out At the world With lights shining As…
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Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author 