I’ve been having trouble restarting writing. I basically haven’t written much since January, when I finished A Fox Of Storms And Starlight, and because of last year I wasn’t in a strong enough writing habit to take essentially two months ‘off’ without it seriously impacting my habits and my critical voice. Critical voice gets stronger […]
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WMG Publishing is offering 50% off on all their writing lectures and courses for TODAY ONLY. Use the code MarchSadnessSpecial20. This is a one-time thing that I haven’t seen them do ever in the last four years, something that they are doing to try to help give people access to positive things to do and
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Mega-best seller Dean Wesley Smith and also-best seller and games-man extraordinaire Loren L. Coleman have put together an amazing, FREE workshop on how to use Kickstarter effectively to boost your fiction. If you’re a writer, or an aspiring writer out there, I highly recommend this great new course. (Actually I highly recommend a lot of
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The bad news: it takes a long time to build a career as a writer. The good news: you only need to commit to three things to ‘make it’. Keep writing. Keep learning about writing to improve your craft. Keep getting your work out to readers (preferably for sale, if your goal is a financially
How To Be A Writer Read More »
Phew. Got knocked around a bit last week getting sick, but I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised: it was a ridiculous couple of weeks, what with a grandparent dying, a grandparent getting critically ill, and me suddenly acquiring a mini leadership role at work o.O So yeah. Not especially surprised, really, that as soon
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You guys are incredible. I was so nervous about giving up a week of my precious holidays to go do more teaching, but wow. You’ve all blown me away with your passion and talent and commitment, and you have just been a dream. I’ve had an absolute blast this week, and I really hope you
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Since this is apparently the week of sharing stumbles, I stumbled across this online the other day too and it’s kind of fun: The Plot Dot, a resource by bestselling YA author Derek Murphy. This is the full copy of his book on slideshare (not pirated – he put it there and links to it
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It occurs to me that due to sketchy and sporadic internet access the last three weeks, I haven’t done a 2018 wrap post. I’m not sure anyone particularly *cares* about this, but hey! It’s an easy blog post to manage this week when I am fribbulatinglycombobulated about being back at work! *\o/* So, last year.
It’s A Wrap? I Guess? Or Maybe A Burger. Either Way, It Was 2018! Read More »
I was digging through the archives again earlier this week and came across this old meme. You have to turn to page 7 of your current work in progress (WIP), count down seven sentences, and then post the next seven sentences. It’s the last week of classes in the Australian school year (at least at
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This started as a side note in my post yesterday about The Crimes of Grindelwald. You probably don’t have to read it for this one to make sense since it’s mostly a review of the film, but it’s here in case you want to. Oh, the human psyche. I do this Thing in classes when
Showing Versus Telling, The Human Psyche, Grindelwald, and Abuse Read More »
