Writing is exhilarating. Crafting stories holds a rare type of excitement. And yet it can, and often stirs a fair amount of discomfort within the writer. Much of the angst we experience when writing relates to the aspect of revising, choosing the write word and phrasing, re-ordering paragraphs, re-scripting and re-organizing scenes.
Crafting stories is the perfect opportunity, offers a wonderful experience, to practice egolessness. The words our characters speak, our prose that describes their actions and feelings are but soldiers in the army of our thoughts. How fleeting.
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Author, Joyce Faulkner, discusses her novel, In the Shadow of Suribachi and her collection of short stories, Losing Patience. So tune in.
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Corporations brainstorm to uncover new ideas. They even take employees on retreats and oftentimes pay psychologists and artist incredible amounts of money to stimulate and present ways in which employees can think out of the box. Why then do writers and authors not give ourselves more time to daydream and brainstorm into planning our stories?
Author of Business Unusual, developmental editor and D. R. E., Doctor of Religious Education, and children’s minister, Linda Beed, and freelance editor, Lynel Johnson Washington, will discuss areas of learning, give and take between writer and editor, and the anxieties we experience as authors when working with an editor. So tune in. http://www.lindabeed.com http://lindabeed.blogspot.com http://bwchristianlit.blogspot.com
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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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Editor Rhonda Crowder will discuss what fiction editors need from writer/authors to provide the best service possible. So tune in. http://www.myspace.com/rhonda_crowder http://www.facebook.com/people/Rhonda-Crowder/1031344803 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rhonda-crowder/7/b33/943 http://www.biblio.com/author_biographies/3092053/Rhonda_Crowder.html http://openlibrary.org/a/OL2846042A/Rhonda-Crowder http://edcmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/04/business-spotlight-rhonda-crowder.html