A late Community Story post today. Been busy, but I’ll have more for you tomorrow on my query letter journey. Now, let’s get right to the Community Story. No one ventured into the Community Story waters last week, so I’ll just post my next addition. If you’re new to the Day By Day Writer Community Story, click…
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A little late on the update today, but here goes. If you haven’t been following our Community Story, you can find the whole story to date by clicking on the Community Story page link on the left on the Day By Day Writer home page. For those of you following along, here’s last week’s addition…
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A couple weeks ago, I asked if e-books are the future, and linked to two articles that point to an answer of yes. Yesterday, I read an article in PC Magazine called “How to Make E-Books Successful.” In it, Tim Bajarin talks about what the perfect e-book reader should be, such as light, easy to…
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I had often heard the advice of reading your writing out loud to truly hear the rhythms. I totally understood this for picture books and dialog for screenplays, but I’ve never felt the need in anything else I’ve written (unless I was trying to focus in the middle of lots of noise). But revising my novel, I decided…
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First about my goals. Had a bad week last week. Only got three chapters done. So, as I’ve missed my goal of six chapters for two weeks now, I’m going to revise the goal to four. I think part of the reason I’ve been missing my goal is too many late nights and not waking up…
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It’s that time again. Let’s jump right in. No additions from readers last week — come on, join in, the water’s fine — so here’s the whole story so far plus the last paragraph is my addition for today. Post what you think should come next in the comments, and they’ll be joined to the story…
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As promised, here’s the next installment of the Community Story. No one was brave enough to add a continuation last week, so you’re getting another one from me. But, first, congrats to local (local to me, at least) first-time author Jenny Moss, whose debut novel, a middle-grade book called Winnie’s War, is apparently getting rave reviews.…
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Ok, so I know I said I was going to start this last week, but work took over once again and left me with a bit of a cold. No problem, though. There’s nothing like the present to start having some fun. Congratulations to Shane whose Community Story beginning got the most votes. A quick…
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I finally finished my novel revision on Saturday, only three days past my end-of-year deadline. At least it’s finished. Next up, finish editing a friend’s novel, do our taxes (ugg) and then back to my novel for a good polish. Even though I’ve just finished the revision, I actually can’t wait to start from the beginning again.…
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My day job has been kicking my butt, lately. It’s a busy time of year for us, and I’ve been swamped, which, of course, has put all my passion work — my own projects — on the back burner. Last week, I didn’t get anything done on the Florida Sir Newton Color Me book,…
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