Author: Anjuelle Floyd
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Smog Checks, The Publishing World, and Integrity…
Editors encounter problems and resistance when after stating a manuscript needs work then proceed to explain how they can abandon, or as is often the case, assist with developmental editing in addition to providing copy edits. This situation resembles the gas station mechanic who after stating your car failed smog inspection then says, “And I…
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Of Cognition, Revision, and the Internet…
“The emerging model of cognition is as a sustained act of imagination, and therefore continuously active participation in the consensual hallucination of reality.” –Kris Saknussemm ( Write what you know–and be sorry) The Writer Magazine May 2010, author of the novels, Private Midnight and Zanesville What if everything we experience in life is truly the…
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Blogging, Promoting, Revising and Editing…
Whatever difficulties we have experienced with editors writers need the help of editors. An unedited book placed on the market for public purchase diminishes our integrity as writers and demeans the skill to crafting fiction to which we aspire. If writing a book was as simple as putting the words on paper and sending it…
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Of Bootstraps, Climbing and The Eye…
“Every piece of writing is a bootstrap affair whereby you use the crisis of the next sentence to get to the one beyond.” –Kris Saknussemm ( Write what you know–and be sorry) The Writer Magazine May 2010, author of the novels, Private Midnight and Zanesville The word bootstrap usually conjures ideas of a man-child walking…
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Of Blogging, Blogging, and More Blogging….
For anyone interested in learning about blogging read the interview extreme blogger, and author, Laurel-Rain Snow gave to U.L. Harper. Laurel discusses how she maintains 17, yes that’s right 17 blogs, while also writing novels and being a grandmother among many other things. Please leave comments as Laurel is in a contest. The more comments,…
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Radio Show | “LIFELINES: The Black Book of Proverbs”
[book-cover/LIFELINES: The Book of Black Proverbs] Yvonne McCalla Sobers discusses, “LIFELINES: A Black Book of Proverbs” that she authored with Askhari Johnson Hodari. So tune in.
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Natalie Goldberg, Writing and a Reader’s Time…
With the help of Natalie Goldberg in her book, Thunder and Lightening: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft, I learned how better to purchase books. I read the first page. If putting the book back on the shelf causes distress, leaves me hungering to know more about what will happen with the characters then I purchase…