(Of course, that means the characters are on the boat, not me. I’m not sitting in a deck chair, rocking back and forth while I write.) Part of the fun of writing a book is taking the reader on an adventure, and part of the fun of the adventure is having the details be accurate. When youContinue reading “Writing A Scene On A Boat”
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Open Book Blog Hop – Humour
‘Is humour an important element is your stories? Do you ever laugh at something you’ve written?’ I am a very serious person. I have always been like that. My mother says I was a serious and self controlled baby. I rarely cried or gave her any trouble. I was what people call an “easy” baby.…
the merry go round in the woods – what does that phrase invoke to you?
What does that phrase invoke to you? Fun? The colorful leaves of Fall? A horror story, where some scary person lures kids into the forest with the promises of a fun kiddie ride, then kills them? Thoughts?
Spellbound Auditions 10/11/2020 as of 11:15am
The Scandal of National Polls.
I know you don’t come here for politics but this isn’t necessarily political. The news people know this, or should, but we don’t have national elections for president. We have 50 individual state elections, and each state gets to decide their rules for it. So why do they take national polls? It’s irrelevant. California hasContinue reading “The Scandal of National Polls.”
Spellbound Narrator Auditions (Updated 10/8/2020 at 11:00am EST)
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Matthew Cook Victor Warren Cheri Calvert Ray Wolinski Ray Lisnewski Nikki Lynch Patrick Hyndes Darnell II
Great writing tip
Can you tell me the lesson here?
I just wrote one of the best chapter I’ve ever written.
I just wrote one of the best chapter I’ve ever written. And if I were to read it again right now, every ounce of passion and emotion and tension would be right there on the page. The problem is, all that stuff probably isn’t there. At least not the way I imagined it in myContinue reading “I just wrote one of the best chapter I’ve ever written.”
Spellbound Narrator Auditions (Updated 10/11/2020 at 12:15pm EST)
Nicole B Dolan Storm P Brown Zach NeSmith Jennifer James Chicquito Joaquim Crasto Matthew Cook Victor Warren Cheri Calvert Ray Wolinski Ray Lisnewski Nikki Lynch Patrick Hyndes Darnell II
The Purge
Today was purge day!I’m so happy. I know there have been a few books and movies about a purge, where society gets rid of their undesirables or whatever. This was not that.Although… So what is the purge in Dan parlance? In DanSpeak? I’ll tell you When I am putting together a book, when I’m starting to think aboutContinue reading “The Purge”
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