Please chose the adventure that you wish to write about in the collaboration blog. These chapters will be between 600-1000, and so the stories will be either a novella or a novel, depending on how many authors are interested.
1001 First Lines- in the last half of the project but slowing…
I’m glad at the beginning of this blog I said don’t expect me to keep it updated. Becuase now for the first time returning back to a blog I haven’t updated in a long time I don’t feel guilty. I’m eating some blog win cake right now. 1001 First Lines is in the last half …
The Liberation of Writers
Paralysis has seized me. I have so many projects on the go currently that when I decide to do one, I want to do them all, and end up drowning in indecision. Then I don’t do any of it. Untapped, unrecognized skills There’s a lot of untapped creativity in the world. One Sentence is a …
I was going to give up, but not anymore.
Thanks for Story Fanatic who revived my confidence in trying to tackle Dramatica. I packed it away yesterday. I arrived at themes and suddenly the boxes were there and I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t get my brain around it. Jim Hull of Story Fanatic wrote a post about getting through Dramatica, and the timing …
Dramatica, the heavy
Dramatica for Dummies, where for art thou? I am a simpleton and I need about three layers of explaining above what you’re already explaining! But I’m not giving up. I refuse. My need to read everything at once, do everything at once, is a virus inside me. I want to snap my fingers and …
I have no muse
Confession time! Hazzah! I have no muse. Not a single one. I read a post over at Jami Gold‘s blog about her relationship with her muse, or the voice in her head that strikes unexpectedly whom she converses with to develop her ideas. Don’t get me wrong, my ideas strike like any other writer. And …
The use of a name, please, only as necessary
This is a pet peeve of mine. Names. It’ll go something like this: [start] Lucy opened the door and ushered David in before her. “David there’s something I have to tell you.” He looked at her with his eyebrow cocked, his body slowly sinking down to a hardened plastic chair beside the desk. “Don’t look …
Why should you pick Smashwords?
I wanted to post about Smashwords but today thanks to a dullness in the brain [due to unspecified reasons that occured the night before because of celebrating] it’s not happening. And then I came across a friend’s blog who had recently posted about it themselves. So here you have- why you should publish with Smashwords …
I’ll always pimp a story I enjoyed
Writers have been hopping on to the self-pub bandwagon for a while now, but this bandwagon has come to FM writers, the place where I hang with my writing homies. But not just paperback publishing, mostly e-book publishing. Smashwords and the like. It could be seen as an assault on the publishing front. Suddenly the …