Commitment to The “Word”
Commit yourself to the ‘word.’ Write your story. Don’t worry about who will publish it. –author, educator, Shon Bacon
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Articles and Essays
Change, Adaptation and Survival of the Flexible
…Saturday, May 23, author Libba Bray gave a reading at Books & Books in Coral Gables. A crowd of fans listened to her discuss her latest book, The Sweet Far Thing, asked questions, and then purchased signed copies of her work. What made the event unique is that Bray was never in Miami. —Virtual Book
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Flexibility and the Writers Capacity for Growth and Learning
The novel or short story is first and foremost a source of entertainment, what consumers turn to among myriad of choices, to provide rest and relaxation, from a world moving at breakneck speed. To insure the most comfortable reading experience, writers want to offer a story with interesting plot, centered on characters about the reader
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Patience: Perhaps the 21st Century Writer’s Greatest Strength
Patience was among the many aspects forming the writer-editor relationship that my guests on this weekend’s broadcast on Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters, addressed. Developmental editor and author of Business Unusual, Linda Beed along with former editor for a publishing company and now free-lance editor, Lynel Washington Johnson, stressed the need for authors and
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The Developmental Editor, The Copy Editor
A poorly written story or a novel with gaps in plot structure or characters that act incongruent to the personality established at the outset of the work are like a movie that appears fuzzy on the screen, out of view and unfocused. Developmental editors like Linda Beed can spot these malfunctions in story and suggest
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Audiobooks–Converting the Spoken Word into Dollars
Tennessee Woman Spends $50,000 on Audiobooks When I first saw this article by Tom Alderman at the Huffington Post I thought, Wow. On second thought I recalled all the audiobooks I’ve ordered for my middle child, who despite being dyslexic, is an avid reader. I didn’t spend close to the amount that Marion Bryant spent
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Planning for Editing: The Author vs. the Novice Writer
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward re-writing. The writer, professional or not, looks forward to the opportunity of excising words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters that do not work and improving those that do. Many a would-be writer thinks whatever he puts down on paper is by that act
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