Writing: As always, Roni Loren’s Fill-Me-In Friday has some good links Kristen Lamb’s post, Are Successful Writers Just Lucky? gave me a…
Continue ReadingMonth: October 2011
Firefly Friday – Dialogue – How Scary is Pain? It’s all in the delivery
This week: dialogue delivery. Earlier in the week I decided to focus on dialogue, but as I mulled it over,…
Continue ReadingTo NaNo or Not to NaNo – Help!
Lord, I’m such a waffler! In my last post My NaNoWriMo Dilemma (Oct 5), I’d laid out my dilemma with NaNoWriMo.…
Continue ReadingWriting Tip: Is your WIP in need of some manscaping? Pluck out those to-be verbs.
Or at least eliminate enough of the suckers so they’re not populating your manuscript like the wiry hairs on a hirsute…
Continue ReadingWeekend Grab Bag – Writing Tips, Firefly Soap and General Geekiness
This week’s round-up, featuring writing tips, Austen stuff, making Browncoats clean and other geekiness. On Writing: Lianna Brooks explains why…
Continue ReadingFirefly Friday – Weaving in World-building Without Infodumping, a writing tip
Still proving popular, so onward we go! This is the 3rd installment in my writing tips series Firefly Friday, where…
Continue ReadingWhat’s Your Fave Time-Travel Romance?
Other than Outlander? And I’m not saying that in jest. I know that’s mine and many others, though it’s not…
Continue ReadingGo Deep! Eliminate Distancing Phrases for Deep POV
Ah, Deep POV, or Deep Penetration, as Orson Scott Card calls it. There’s nothing quite as titillating. And no, we’re…
Continue ReadingWeekend Grab Bag – Books, Writing, Austen, Firefly and True Love
A grab bag of cool things I came across this week that I thought you might like. There’s a little bit…
Continue ReadingFirefly Friday – Flip that Cliché, a writing tip
Last Friday I wrote a blog post on the spur of the moment – Writing Lessons from the TV Show…
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