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Weekend Grab Bag – From Writing Tips to Darth Vader’s Love Life
It’s getting colder down here in Mobile, brrr! Here’s my roundup of of blog posts I found helpful this week,…
Continue ReadingFirefly Friday – Shiny! Using Setting to Illustrate Character
Welcome to the next installment of Firefly Friday, where we examine a writing tip chestnut and marry it to my…
Continue ReadingYou Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto – The Challenge of Multiple POVs
My current novel has two Points of View (POV), and boy are they completely different. One is the quirky, slightly…
Continue ReadingWeekend Grab Bag – Writing, Geekiness and Tolkien
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 ReadingFirefly 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…
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