When a Character Hijacks You
Hello everyone. I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and great start to your week. As you’ll know if you’ve read my Friday Week in Review post, which you can find HERE, I have finally finished my short story …
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My Week in Review and Writing Links
Hello everyone! Happy Friday. I’m only pretending to be here today, as I’m away from home until Saturday, lol. Due to my short trip, my cut-off for new blog posts was Wednesday evening rather than Thursday evening this week. I’ll …
Basic Plots: Rags to Riches
Hello everyone, over on Story Empire, author Staci Troilo has the sixth in a seven part post all about the seven basic plots. Well worth checking out … Ciao, SEers. We’re up to our sixth of the Seven Basic Plots …
A Bit of a Giggle
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all having a good week so far. I had a bit of a giggle just now while writing, and had to share it with you all. The importance of that tiny little mark called an …
Sneak Peek: The Switch
Hello everyone! Happy Tuesday. I hope you all had a good weekend and your week is going well so far. As promised on Friday’s post, which you can find HERE, today I’m giving a sneak peek from my WIP THE …
Book Signings and Author Swag
Hi everyone. Today over on Story Empire, author Mae Clair gives us some tips and tricks for any of us who have done or might do book signing events …. Hi, SEers! Mae here today. It’s been a while since …
My Week in Review and Writing Links
Hello everyone. Happy Friday! For some reason, this has felt like a loooonnng week, lols, and I’m so glad it’s nearly the weekend. My birthday came and went, and now I’m another year older, and as a certain Mr J …
Tortured Soul Available for Preorder
Check out Staci Troilo’s final book in the Medci Protectorate series! I enjoyed books 1 and 2 and need to get round to reading book 3 before number 4 releases 🙂 … Bittersweet. That’s the only way I can describe …
Write What You Want
Over on Story Empire today, Joan Hall has a great post for us on writing what we want to write … Hi, SE Readers. In the course of your writing journey, many of you have probably had someone say to …
My Week in Review and Writing Links
Hello everyone. Happy Friday! I hope you’ve all had a good week. Lot’s done here, with a busy week and lots finished. I also found time for a story based on more Storymatic prompts, and am having fun with that. …
See the Forest & the Trees
Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday 🙂 Over on Story Empire today, author P. H. Solomon gives us a lovely post all about criticism and feedback on our books. Well worth a read … There’s an age-old idiom which we still use …
War and Peace
Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and that this finds you well. As promised on my Friday post, which you can find HERE, I am posting one of my short stories based on prompts from my …
Problems naming things
Hello everyone! Today, over on Story Empire, Craig Boyack has an interesting and fun post on naming things … Hi Gang, Craig here today with a little confession to make. I hate naming things. This can be almost any …
My Week in Review and Writing Links
Hello everyone. I hope you’ve all had a good week, and that those of you in America had a good July 4th. It has continued hot and humid here with only the smallest bit of rain. Moors, fields, and hedges …
Basic Plots: Quest
Hello everyone! Happy Monday. Today, author Staci Troilo brings you a great post on plotting. Check it out over on Story Empire … Ciao, SEers. Today we’re going to discuss our fifth of the Seven Basic Plots as defined by …
When You Hit a Brick Wall
What do you do when you hit a brick wall? Check out what author Joan Hall has to say over on Story Empire today! 🙂 Hi SE Readers! Joan here today to talk about the dreaded “writer’s block.” Okay, some …
The Missing Link
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well this Monday and have had a good weekend. As promised to some of my blogging friends on my post on Friday, which you can find HERE, here is my 1500 word short fiction, …
How To: From Word to Book
Hello everyone! Happy Monday. Today, you’ll find me over on Story Empire, talking about how to format your Word document to best convert your manuscript into a book for print and ebook. Well worth a look … Hello SErs! Harmony …
My week in review and writing links
Hello everyone! Happy Friday 🙂 I hope you’ve all had a good week. Mine has focused more on getting things sorted out than on writing or creating or even that darned audio editing growling at me from the corner, lols. …
Friday Cover Share: Cusp of Night & The Alternative
Hello SErs! Happy Friday! 🙂 Harmony here. Today is my turn to share a book cover with you that caught my attention for one reason or another. As you will see from the post title, I couldn’t … Source: Friday …
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The plate of peas part of writing
Over on Story Empire today, author Craig Boyack gives us some ‘food for thought’ on writing stories … Hi, Gang! Craig with you again, with another way to think about story. I used to talk about this with my children …
The Lost Dutchman’s Mine Gold Mine of Authors
Hi everyone! Over on Story Empire, author P.H. Solomon has a great post on marketing for you … It’s the stuff that makes for a great story and grabs people’s attention who enjoy one: The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine. The …
My week in review and writing links
Hello everyone! Happy Friday! Once again, this is me readying for the weekend. I can’t rightly say winding down, because all plans ended up off this week.Today’s quote reflects the kind of week I’ve had. I’ve had issues with a …
Writing Question: Conflict
Hi everyone! I have a post for you from Staci Troilo over on Story Empire today that’s all about conflict … 🙂 Ciao, SEers. Seems my time for a Friday post has rolled around again. This is the week of …
Basic Plots: Voyage and Return
Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday. Today, over on Story Empire, author Staci Troilo brings us another great post on the seven basic plots. Entertaining and Informative, it’s definitely worth checking out … Ciao, SEers. I’m back again today with one of …
Mae Clair: Cusp of Night book release
Hello everyone! Today, it gives me great pleasure to host author Mae Clair with her latest Supernatural Thriller book of fiction: Cusp of Night! Some of you will know that Mae has a special interest in all things supernatural, and …
These look like fun: Tools to engage your creativity!
Hi everyone, happy Monday! It’s so hot and humid here … Well, not to worry, as we have author Mae Clair over on Story Empire today with a great post on Creative Tools. I’m off to do more investigating because …
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Friday Book Share – Boneshaker
Author C.S. Boyack tells us about Cherie Priest and Boneshaker over on Story Empire today for their Friday Book Share … it looks like a great book! Craig here today, and this post is a bit challenging for me. I …
My week in review and writing links
Happy Friday everyone! Well, this is me winding down for the weekend, and I thought I’d share my week with you as well as some useful writing links. This is my first such post, and my intention is to try …
Working with an editor – some tips and advice #amwriting #writinganovel #writingtips #selfpublishing
Having had a bad experience recently, I had been toying with a post on ‘How Not to Treat Your Editor’. However, this post from Allison Williams says it all on ‘what to do’. Please do check it out. And seriously, …