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#GuestPost #C.S.Boyack #LisaBurton Talks About #Grinders
Originally posted on The Write Stuff: I’m so pleased to announce we have a first-time guest on The Write Stuff today, and what a guest she is, too! Some of you may have met her on other blogs, but for those who haven’t, please welcome Lisa Burton, Craig Boyack’s personal assistant and spokesmodel. (Oh, and…
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Your first pages – 5 more book openings critiqued by a literary agent (and me!) at @Litopia
Originally posted on Nail Your Novel: Last Sunday I guested again at Litopia, an online writers’ colony and community. Every week they have a YouTube show, Pop-Up Submissions, where five manuscripts are read and critiqued live on air by literary agent Peter Cox @agentpete and a guest, or sometimes two (this time we had PR…
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Inspirational Pics & Poems 3/9/2020 Traci Kenworth – A Dash of Seasons
Inspirational Pics & Poem Mondays 3/9/2020 Traci Kenworth Three senryus on human nature In indigo skyplanets hang in the balanceballoons pop at whim girl walks withluggage in her handdestinies Lush grasswater lapsfootprints Spring cleaning? Check out these products! The best paper towels. Tried baking soda and vinegar as a cleaner yet? Or how about in…
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Book Talk 3/9/2020 James Scott Bell's The Last Fifty Pages Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 1/10/20: James Scott Bell’s The Last Fifty Pages Traci Kenworth The Last Fifty Pages by James Scott Bell. Comendium Press Feb. 18, 2019. Amazon’s blurb: “The first page of a book sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” –– Mickey Spillane What are the secrets for writing a great ending for…
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Writerly Things: The Book List of 2019 and Goals for the New Year in Reading Traci Kenworth 3/9/2020
Writerly Things 1/6/20: Revised Book List I Read for 2019 and New Goals in the Year Ahead with Reading Traci Kenworth Books I Read in 2019 Traci Kenworth Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor # 1 so far YA Fantasy Experimental Film by Gemma Files Katie’s Highlander by Maeve Grayson #1 so far…
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Five Links 3/9/2020 Traci Kenworth
Five Links 11/23/19 Traci Kenworth Writing: 1. http://booksbywomen.org/step-away-from-your-comfort-zone-by-beverley-harvey/ “For the last month, my writing has stalled. Spectacularly. It’s not time, opportunity or commitment that I lack, it’s motivation and self-belief. Like myriad writers, I am prone to introspection, anxiety and low self-esteem. No sympathy required here; I count myself lucky that I manage these personality…
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Writerly Things 3/9/2020 Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things 3/9/2020: The Approaching Days Traci Kenworth What are you looking forward to doing most this Spring? Me, everything. Last year, I was cooped inside with two surgeries and this year, I just can’t wait to get out there doing what I need to do. Gardening. At the top of my list is planting…
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Scene Writing is Where the Fun Happens
We’ve had some good posts and comments about writing methods, grouped generally under the two broad headings of plotter/outliner and pantser. You can read the latest entries HERE and HERE. What I want to examine today is a bromide I often hear when this subject comes up. It issues from the pantsing side of the…
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A blogging kind of weekend
Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: I didn’t even try to write new fiction this weekend. I only get two days, and Old What’s Her Face was off for both of them. I decided to dedicate my time to blogging. Most of this is the slow promotion of Grinders. I wrote a post that should go…
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#American Sentence: Fatal
Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: Let love be the disease that carries me from this life to the unknown Poets and Storytellers United: Weekly Scribblings #9 Contagion dVerse Poets Pub: OLN #261



