Tag: craft
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Radio Interview | Anjuelle Floyd on “From the Heart and Soul”…
Please join me as a guest of Rachel Berry aka Lady Serenity, on From the Heart and Soul as I discuss how I came to writing, my process for crafting fiction, my collection of short stories, Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident, and my soon to be released, novel The House. So tune in.
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Of Apprenticeships, Marketing and Patience…
[Writer’s Digest]–“What’s the most important change happening in the publishing industry right now that’s impacting the future of the author-agent relationship?” [Agent–Paige Wheeler of Folio Literary Management]: “The change in the delivery mechanism is huge. Barriers of entry to publishing are down, and authors are able to make (their work) available to anyone with an…
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Of Kings, Strategies and Tactics…
Capture of the King in chess ends the game. And thus the role of each piece or character’s movements works towards the larger goals of protecting the King of the same color and capturing the King of the opponent. The players move their characters and/or chess pieces towards accomplishing these two tasks. In this way…
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Of Terry Brooks, Magic, and The Writer vs. The Author…
“There are writers and there are authors. Writers seek to write, and they seek to write better and better with every book. Authors seek only to be published, and they seek advances to match their egos.” –Elizabeth George in Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life by Terry Brooks. Elizabeth George offers this…
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Of Romance, Truth, and Purging the Hidden Pools of Consciousness…
Many things can happen during the approach towards the heart of a story, or novel, both for the protagonist, and the writer. The blossoming flower of romance provides a mainstay in many stories that tug and keep open the hearts and minds of readers, wherein new possibilities enter for them to ponder both in the…