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  • Life in all its strangeness

    The last few days have been kind of weird, which is mostly why I haven’t been updating more frequently up here. Saturday was a sad day for everybody cause we had to put one of our kitties down. Andrei was well over 10 years old, and never quite seemed the same after he had his…

  • Writer Water Cooler

    INDEX TO AGENTS, PUBLISHERS, AND OTHERS – Absolute Write Water Cooler. Excellent listing of all the latest agents & publishers around, and discussions regarding them. Linking this for later. It was linked over on Writer Beware.

  • Pushing Characters and What Makes a Good Story

    Pushing Characters and What Makes a Good Story

    Working Writers posted a link to this article today, and I thought I’d give my two cents on the topic. Rachelle Gardner, Literary Agent: What the Fiction Editor Looks For, Part I Rachelle lists a series of items that writers fail to include in their stories/books/etc. that leaves the reader feeling like something’s off. That’s…

  • Themes in Your Writing

    I was reading over TeacherWriter’s blogpost about themes in writing, and I thought I’d share some themes I’ve seen in mine. Now, they aren’t in everything I write I believe, but they do show up pretty often. Dreams Dreams are a big one. You know how J.K. Rowling considered Hermoine as a character of herself…

  • Leaving Your Safety Net

    Found a very useful post by Kristen Lamb entitled: Go Hard or Go Home – Blogging & Branding. When I started this blog, I knew what I was going to do with it: make it my professional writing blog. And with that in mind I got a blog name that reflected that goal. I’ve spammed…