DAN ALATORRE

Most of you won’t pay too much attention to this, but today or tomorrow we are going to have more views and more visitors to this blog Year to  date than we had all of last year! And last year we had about a 50% increase over the prior year.   Which means 2017 is going […]

Each week we’re taking five, maybe ten, of YOUR writerly questions and setting about answering them for you.  Ask Dan ANYTHING Skill level doesn’t matter. Newbie writer, veteran writer, you have questions. I’ll opine; maybe some others will chime in with their thoughts, and hopefully YOU will get several good solutions to choose from. Or […]

Reading a recent interview with Lucy, HERE, I noticed the following reply she made to a question. It sums up her book pretty well, which is hard to do (when you write a lot it’s hard to sum it up quickly for somebody, like the elevator pitch or whatever).   However, it also demonstrates the […]

For those of you who are interested (and I hope that’s a lot of you), we have finalized some of the ideas for the anthology. The theme is: SCARY   That’s a pretty broad brush, gang. Feel free to go crazy. Scary includes: you know, lots of stuff. Horror. Macabre. All that. Channel your inner […]

Ta dah!! I’m so excited. I keep forgetting that midnight July 31st isn’t first thing August 1 but first thing July 31, so I was expecting this sucker to go live TOMORROW. Oops. Oh, well. Doesn’t matter – we are off to the races now! Get your copy today by clicking HERE   Gang, this […]

Billy Crystal once made a movie called Mr. Saturday Night (or something like that – I’m not looking it up). It wasn’t a really funny movie, the way people expect Billy Crystal movies to be, but it was good for other reasons. There were some lessons in there that I think he learned that he […]

MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, July 31, 2017, Eastern Standard Time, is the deadline for your story if it’s going in the Word Weaver Writing Contest. Prizes, fame, and a critique of your writing by me – but not if you don’t enter. 2. If you are interested in being in the anthology, please let me know by […]

Last week we discussed some basic tips to improve your writing the way a critique group would. Today we address more of those suggestions plus how to deal with reading harsh critiques you might get in a free online critique group and other not so fun things. (And some fun things, too.) READING CRITIQUES When […]

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   If you haven’t entered the Word Weaver Writing Contest yet, you still have this weekend.     Don’t miss out!    I know. You’re busy. You don’t have time. That Thing You Do is on cable. There’s a pile of laundry calling your name and loved ones who insist on being fed.     Priorities.     […]