What If? Blogfest
Check out more at Book EchoesToday is the first day of the What if? Fairy Tale Madness Blogfest hosted by Leigh Covington, Cassie Mae, Morgan Shamy, and Mark Koopmans. The basic premise is to write a...
View ArticleA is for Academic Life and Historical Fiction
Check out more at Book Echoes Welcome to day one of the April A-Z blogfest. There will be one post for each letter of the alphabet this month, with a post on each day of the month, minus Sundays. I’d...
View ArticleB is for Books from the Era
Check out more at Book EchoesBy Violetriga (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia CommonsJust about...
View ArticleC is for Creative Nosiness
Check out more at Book EchoesWelcome to day 3 of the April Blogging from A to Z challenge. Today is C for creative nosiness. People watching has long been a past-time of writers. You sit in a café...
View ArticleE is for Evidence
Check out more at Book Echoes Today’s letter is E for “Show your evidence!” an important maxim for any type of written work. Writing a term paper? Well, you’ve got to put forward a thesis and support...
View ArticleG is for Google Maps
Check out more at Book Echoes Welcome to day 7 of the April Blogging from A through Z Challenge! Today I’m featuring, perhaps an unusual tool for writers, Google Maps. Of course, when writing in a...
View ArticleH is for However
Check out more at Book EchoesWelcome to Day 8 of the April Blogging from A through Z Challenge! Today the spotlight is on H for However. However is a much misunderstood word. You may have heard people...
View ArticleL is for Listen to Poirot
Check out more at Book EchoesWelcome to day 12 of the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge! If you’ve ever read a Poirot mystery or watched one on T.V., you’ll be familiar with the way they typically...
View ArticleN is for Nobody’s Favorite
Check out more at Book EchoesWelcome to day 14 of the April Blogging from A to Z challenge! Once in a while, when listening to the radio, my sister will hear a song and cry, “Ugh! That’s got to be...
View ArticleQ is for Quality not Quantity in Word Choice
Check out more at Book EchoesToday, I’m going to talk about something a very serious problem I have… Just kidding! My problem is that I have a love-hate relationship with the thesaurus button. On the...
View ArticleT is for Tailing
Check out more at Book EchoesSome writing advice sticks with you, ringing throughout your process like the telephone you never knew you had in your head. But some writing advice seems weirder than the...
View ArticleU is for “Use or Utilize?”
Check out more at Book EchoesWhich one is it? I’ll confess, when people write utilize although use would be perfectly fine, it always bugs me. It turns out there is a time and place when utilize is the...
View ArticleY is for “You Are Every Role”
Check out more at Book EchoesIn the movies, there’s a whole team of people making a production come together. There are actors playing each role. Set designers, wardrobe designers, and sound...
View ArticleZ is for Zero Draft
Check out more at Book EchoesIt’s the last day! Congratulations all A-Z participants who made it all the way through! Today, Z is for zero draft. You know, that thing I’ll be working on a lot more now...
View ArticleDo You Have PWS? Ask Yourself Why.
Check out more at Book EchoesCreative folks have a love-hate relationship with critique. We want the knowledge we need to improve, but getting that knowledge is sometimes a painful process. Having a...
View ArticleSketchy Writing: Make Character Manageable through Texture
Check out more at Connie B. Dowell Not good enough. Must squiggle MORE! In another of my sketching fits, I’ve been drawing textures (visual textures, not physical ones). Tons and tons of them. I fill...
View ArticleAvoid the Spice Sandwich: Balancing Character Quirks
Check out more at Connie B. DowellWhen I was about nine or ten, my family got a new kitchen toy, a sandwich maker. It was just a little cheap toasting thing, not as nice as the one in the picture over...
View ArticleScheduling Your Writing Life
Check out more at Connie B. DowellSeptember approaches and with it school books, falling leaves, apple cider, and messy schedules… Wait, what? Messy schedules? Yep. Now’s the time of year I realize I...
View ArticleWIPMarathon Check In #4 (Last One!)
Check out more at Connie B. DowellEverybody, this has been a wonderful month. Thank you all for your support, encouragement and writing sprints. I for one will keep on using #wipmarathon, and I hope...
View ArticleWhy I End Sentences with Prepositions if I Want to… And Other Grammar “Rules”...
Check out more at Connie B. Dowell Grammar: you know, that thing a few love passionately and many millions more detest. I’ll dive if I want… No, actually, I should probably follow this rule. Was there...
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