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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Part 1: Revision, Revision, Revision
“(Working Title) has serious problems with structure and storytelling, it isn’t yet an effective novel.” Peter Gelfan sent this to me in an email back in 2007. With that he essentially told me thanks and have a nice day. He … Continue reading
Posted in Pen Points
Tagged first novel, Peter Gelpan, plot, Renni Browne, revision, structure, The Editorial Company, writing
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Emotional Relations For Your Writing
Check out today’s blog by Jane Friedman. Her post today gives advice to memoirs writers about what turns their readers off. I’m not into writing memoirs (yet) but I seem to have a procrastinating habit of reading everything in front … Continue reading
Posted in Pen Points
Tagged chart, emotions, Genogram, Jane Friedman, links, memoirs, writer, writing
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Wet Feathers, Fowl Weather and Three Lessons
Guess I’m over that (dark) moon phase and now hung up on birds and weather. Stick with me on this because I learned some truths about the world from a torrential downpour. A few nights ago the sky darkened and … Continue reading
Posted in Pen Points
Tagged birds, creative, Darwin, feather, humor, Lessons, perspective, point of view, protagonist, rain, Say's Phoebe, Spotted Towhee, weather, writer, writing
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What I Learned from the Song Bird in a Wooden Cage
The endearing song of some small bird pulled me, I had to see the source. I trotted down a narrow, stone street, these streets were all made for traffic of the two wheeled or two legged kind. I was fortunate … Continue reading
Posted in Stress test, Uncategorized
Tagged Charlene Dietz, culture, education, ideas, imagination, Kotor Montenegro, Medina Morocco, Motril Spain, opinion about U.S.A., people, travel, writing
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Dark Moon
Wow! I do believe I’m on an astronomy kick here. For you mystery writers out there, doesn’t Dark Moon sound more sinister than Blue Moon? “Once in a blue moon–” happens only when there is a second full moon in … Continue reading
Posted in Scheme Stalker
Tagged Blue Moon, creative, Dark Moon, Graham Bell, lunar event, mystery writers, New Moon, plot, Writers
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Everything you need to know to catch the Curiosity rover landing
UPDATE: No, no, no–NASA has a touch-down clock that says the Curiosity will land at 1:31 SDT, on August 6th; 11:31 MDT on August 5th; and 10:31 PDT August 5th. And a big “Thank you” to my comet/asteroid chasing brother, … Continue reading
Posted in Scheme Stalker, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012, Annalee Newitz, August 5, curiosity, dreamer, ideas, imagination, io9, Mars, science, space travel, technology, writer, writing
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