Tag: novel
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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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Ethics, Revisions and the Search for an Editor…
There are times where my writing runs head-on with my blogging. By writing I mean work on my novel. Presently, my novel, “The House” due out this summer is back from the copy editor, Shon Bacon. Once I make all the suggested changes I will forward the manuscript to my developmental editor for one more…
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Radio Show | Authors, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Authors, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, discuss their new novel, “Uptown”. Ms. Deberry and Grant have also written, “What Doesn’t Kill You”, “Gotta Keep on Tryin'”, “Exposures”, “Better Than I Know Myself”, “Trying to Sleep in the Bed You Made”, “Far From the Tree”. So tune in.
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Of Narrative, Journeys, and What Compels Us to Write…
“Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.” –Toni Morrison, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author The protagonist, in reaching home, during this last chapter of the journey, must evidence that she or he has traveled, not simply waited steps beyond home, seconds beyond the gates of…
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Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
The road that led your protagonist away at the opening of your novel or story brings her or him home again during the final stage, but at a new level of awareness. And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and…
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Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
The road that took the protagonist away, during the final stage of the novel, brings her or him home again, but at a new level of awareness. And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and Home Again. The central character…