A Simple Quote for Writers on Imagination
Wise Words from Author Othello Bach "Before you begin to write a sentence, imagine the scene you want to paint with your words. Imagine that you are the character and...
View ArticleQuote: The Writer's Raw Material
How simply, yet incredibly true! "A writer -- and, I believe, generally all persons -- must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have...
View ArticlePower Up Your Prose through Visualization
"Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still...
View ArticleA Brief Quote on Stories and Growth
Stories: The Currency of Human Growth "Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth." Jean Houston So simple, yet so profound...
View ArticleJoin Blog Action Day 2012
Links to Blog Action Day Info Blog Action Day is only a month away (October 15, 2012)! If you're thinking of participating, you'll probably want to visit the Blog Action...
View ArticleSaylor Foundation Offers $20,000 to College Textbook Authors
Have you published a college-level textbook that you would be willing to license to Saylor.org -- a free educational website that is working hard to change the face of modern...
View ArticleQuote on Writing: Do What Works
"There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found...
View ArticleThe Earthbound Review: Call for Submissions
Potential Magazine Exposure for Your Work If you have previously unpublished work -- including poetry, prose (aka, short stories), or art -- you might want to consider submitting it to...
View ArticleWriting Market: The Sun Magazine
Good Pay for Your Work I just came across a well-paying venue for writers the other day and thought I'd share it: The Sun Magazine. The magazine pays $300 to...
View ArticleFortune-Cookie Tidbits for Writers 1
Fortune-Cookie Wisdom Returns I've written about fortune-cookie wisdom for writers before, and the insights were so amazingly suitable to the craft that after ordering Chinese food the other night, I...
View ArticleFortune-Cookie Tidbits for Writers 2
Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Round 2 My last post discussed one of two fortune-cookie fortunes I received the last time I ordered Chinese food and how that "fortune" could be applied...
View ArticleA Few Thought-Provoking Quotes on Writing
Quotes from Writers Who Make Us Think I always enjoy reading a good quote on writing. Perhaps you do, too. If so, here are an even dozen I think you'll...
View ArticleThe Accident that Has Kept Me from Posting Lately
A Tragic Accident Just wanted to let everyone know the reason I haven't posted in quite some time: Two of my out-of-town grandnieces were hit by a car on October...
View ArticleSisters Stick Together: Photo of Alyssa and Rain
Two of the Three Angels Here's a photo of my grandnieces, Alyssa and Rain, taken earlier today. (Aren't they sweet?) In this picture, they're on their way to Alyssa's physical...
View ArticleGlimmer Train: A Lucrative Short Fiction Market
A Print Market Worth Pursuing Glimmer Train is an attractive quarterly print literary magazine, each issue of which consists of over 200 pages of "emotionally significant" short literary fiction. The...
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