Tag: writing
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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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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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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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Writing, Transformation, and The Unadulterated Truth…
Of how Nella’s Down’s Syndrome has changed her, Kelle Hampton writes, “I’ve learned how “pain” shapes you as a person and propels you to new depths and how “perfection” is not the glossy magazine cover that Hollywood portrays. I’m learning to shed off the shallow parts of my character I’ve adopted over the years and…
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Of Blogging, “Motherwit Four,” and Generosity…
Of the mother wit and wisdom in her writing Angelia Menchan says, “My mother was 30 years old before she decided to have children. I had these old women around me. My grandmother and then godmother lived to be 102. I was one of those old souls at a very young age. You know that…