Faith Hunter
A guy the AKA (Gwen Hunter) knows, a lawyer who did some work for us back in the 1990s, asked me/us to read his book opening. Actually it was 16 pages of concept thrown onto the pages, single spaced, a lot for shock value. It read like a short story that needed a lot of [...]
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  Loading ...Find or Become a Beta Reader      | My subject this week is paragraph and sentence structure. I know, you suddenly have visions of your 5th grade teacher, who looked a lot like Marge Simpson but without the cool style and hip clothes. The smell of chalk or water-based-board markers (pick your toxins: one has particulates that get in your lungs, one kills [...] Make your readers expect great things right [...] I had written an essay about expectations and their role in writing stories that I planned on posting today, but something happened that made me change my mind. NASFIC is this weekend, in Raleigh NC, and I was at a panel where an established writer started talking about cover letters. However, it quickly became clear from context [...] Never write in second person. Always start with a powerful first line. Never change POVs in the middle of a scene. Eschew adjectives. And adverbs. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah… Magical Words is a blog devoted to helping people write better, and there’s a lot of great advice to be found here. And it’s all negotiable. Seriously. There isn’t a [...] It all came down to one paragraph. For the last 4 weeks, I’ve been on rewrites for my next book, Mercy Blade. It has been a rough, tough rewrite, because the plots (two of them) were equally important, interwoven, complex, and based on things that happened in 1912. And, the book needs to be intense enough [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our mobile site.If your mobile has a barcode reader, simply snap this bar code with the camera and launch the site. Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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