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Blog Hop: Guessing the Age Contest

Posted by on Dec 8, 2011 in Contests & Hops | 23 comments

Hello fellow blog hoppers. I’m having a great time reading your intros and guessing the age. Can you guess my protag’s age in the first 250 words of my WIP? Any suggestions or recommendations on my intro? Let me have it! Let me know if you follow me and I’ll follow you back.   The voodoo priestess tossed entrails into the fire. My throat tightened at the stench, and sweat trickled in hidden places beneath my damp, cotton dress in the suffocating heat. Mosquitoes buzzed....

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Best Checklist EVER: 10 Rules of Writing

Posted by on Dec 4, 2011 in Writing Tips | 6 comments

I confess, this is not my writing checklist. Janis Hubschman created it and is kind enough to share it with the world. If you aren’t using these techniques to advance your prose, I suggest you get busy. They may save you a couple of crappy first novels or short stories. 1. WHEN THE STORY STALLS, ask: what is the character thinking now? Is she thinking anything? If not, why not? Characters need to learn something about themselves, about their values and assumptions. 2. CHARACTERS REVEAL...

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Revising Your NaNoWriMo Novel…or Any Other Novel For That Matter

Posted by on Nov 30, 2011 in Writing Tips | 2 comments

I’ve grappled with how to begin the second round of revisions on my novel (not a NaNoWriMo book) the last few weeks. I’m at the part, you know, where you really have to make your prose sing.  The problem is, everytime I’ve thought of tackling my MS, I’ve wanted to beat it with a broom handle rather than face it again. Soooo, I took a six week break and enlisted a few high profile beta readers. The result: it’s in decent shape, but still needs some very...

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PROOF OF LOVE

Posted by on Nov 16, 2011 in Author Interviews | 2 comments

A  friend and wonderful writer, Arabella Stokes, is joining us today at Between the Sheets. She talks marketing herself as a debut novelist, her hero-husband, and writing, even when you think it stinks. Her first novel, PROOF OF LOVE, has just  been released in ebook from Champagne Books. A Georgian-era, historical romance, PROOF OF LOVE is the tale of a young lady who has lost all faith in her heart and a scientist-nobleman who  never believed in love to begin with. Together, they learn...

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Tips to Survive NaNoWriMo

Posted by on Nov 8, 2011 in Writing Tips | 0 comments

A week into NaNoWriMo and that 50,000 word total is beginning to look a little outrageous? Sometimes you just need a little help… Create a Pitch as a Motivational Touchstone I stole this idea from Diane Holmes over at pitch-university.com. Diane says to jot down a pitch based on the reasons you’re thrilled to be doing NaNoWriMo (“This is a book where I get to….”, “I can’t wait to play with….”, etc.) as a way to generate motivation. I’ll add my own...

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