DAN ALATORRE

Have YOU entered yet? valuable prizes insightful critiques and you might get published Click HERE for more info and to enter! Guest blog post by a co-author of The Box Under The Bed, Eric Daniel Clarke. It still seems a little odd to think of myself as an author yet thanks to Dan and all the co-authors of the ‘Box […]

I was recently asked about whether giving writing tips would create a bunch of people who write like I do. It’s a good question, and here’s the answer: No. The question was actually more involved than I’m expressing here, but I’m not giving tips to get people to do what I do; I didn’t think […]

That’s a good question. Who am I and why do you care what I have to say?   Hmm. Well… If someone has done what YOU want to do, and they are willing to tell you how THEY did it, that might help YOU do it.   There were a lot of steps in the process […]

As you will see by the following two images, the blog has been doing pretty well of late. Later today if everything in this trend continues, we will surpass 50,000 views for the year. That’s not 50,000 views since we created a blog, That’s 50,000 views since January 1 until sometime this afternoon. We tend […]

Meet and greet the folks who will be helping assess the winners of the November Word Weaver Writing Contest. Learn about each of our celebrity judges and see what each will be looking for in the contest. Here’s celebrity Judge Kelly Abell.   Kelly, tell us about you and your writerly pursuits. I am an […]

I’m interested in getting your thoughts about stuff I see and hear, quotes I read, stuff that passes as knowledge – and starting an authorey conversation. This alone makes you very special. And rare. Appreciate the specialness that is you. What are YOUR thoughts on this idea?

We think the modern day style of writing is just that – modern. Grabbing a reader right away and moving quickly to the action. It is not new at all. Over 100 years ago, Edgar Allen Poe created some of the basic rules for powerful short story writing.  “First the artist must decide, of all […]

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