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 [...] I’m sitting in the waiting room at my mechanic’s, waiting to find out just what’s wrong with my car and how much it’ll cost me. Thing is — nobody knows anything just yet. Writing can be the same way. Sometimes things break down and nobody knows why. In all my years in this crazy business, I’ve [...] I’m in the middle of revising my third published book and my revisions tend to be Messy (yes, with a capital M). Sometimes I think about revising as being similar to cleaning up your office or room. First, there’s the easy stuff like collecting all the writing utensils in one place, throwing away [...] I’ve loved comic strips for a long time, going back to the early days of Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side. These days it’s Pearls Before Swine, Zits, Over The Hedge, Dilbert, and Frazz (which is brilliant, but not that well-known). Absurd and insightful, my favorite comics are always that [...] Last night (or rather this morning) at 3 a.m., I finished the revision of Crimson Wind, the second in my Horngate Witches series. It was a truly difficult revision. A long slog, as my title suggests. I usually love revisions. I think much of the real writing of a book or story happens in revision. [...] | 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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