Writing

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A tip for blogging newcomers Bloggercises, 19 hours ago, 6 comments Culture > Writing As Orble races toward the 10,000 member blog landmark, we are seeing some interesting new blogs. It's an exciting thing to create a blog, especially if it's your first blog. [Click here to read more]

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Whimsical Wedding Wlog by Patrice Rasmussen, M.Ed. Sanguine Scripture Provides a Sanctuary, 1 day ago Culture > Writing <div class="comments-content"> <div id="tpc_thread"><div> <div style="display:none;" id="tpc_post_title"><div> <div style="display:none;" id="tpc_post_message"><div> <script... [Click here to read more]

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Three Great Editing Links Fictional Worlds, 1 day ago Culture > Writing Some more great links for you: ~He said, she said: thoughts on dialogue is a post on Magical Words talking about dialogue. It's got several interesting points to consider when editing your own dialogue scenes. ~Dear Prospective Editors is more... [Click here to read more]

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the Claws of Recall Lovetrucker, 1 day ago Culture > Writing What was this arcane adventure really about, behind the frills and flights of fancy? I lay in bed hugging my thoughts, wide awake yet asleep to reality. I was searching for a lost treasure, a forgotten diadem that had tumbled from my brow as I... [Click here to read more]

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Dragon Haven Books Well Read, 1 day ago Culture > Writing Dragon Haven Robin Hobb 2010 Book 2 of the Rain Wild Chronicles. The quest for the lost city of Kelsingra continues. But is the worst enemy of the young dragons and their human keepers and the liveship Tarman and its crew themselves or... [Click here to read more]

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Editing Exercise Two: Dialogue Tags Fictional Worlds, 2 days ago Culture > Writing Today's exercise is about dialogue tags. You want dialogue to stand on its own. Dialogue tags shouldn't have to explain how your character said it. A reader should be able to tell who's speaking fairly easily without any dialogue tags at all, but... [Click here to read more]

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the Unknown Child Lovetrucker, 3 days ago Culture > Writing Last night I dreamt about my family. The confused experiences of the day dissolved with the coming of night and her attendant sprites of sleep and darkness. The rattling timbers and the fluttering of birds in the attic above me kept me awake but... [Click here to read more]

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Book Review: Self Editing For Fiction Writers Second Edition by Browne&King Fictional Worlds, 3 days ago Culture > Writing I've seen this book recommended in at least a dozen different places, so I had the library order a copy for me. It arrived at the end of last week and of course, I've already finished reading it. [Click here to read more]

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The Cloud Pavilion Books Well Read, 4 days ago Culture > Writing The Cloud Pavilion A Sano Ichiro novel Laura Joh Rowlands 2009 Japan 1701. Sano is been contacted by a relative from his mother's clan. The one that outcast her and made her marry a ronin. They want him to find a missing relative. To... [Click here to read more]

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Monstrous Regiment The Authors Cafe, 4 days ago Culture > Writing Terry Pratchett is the King of political observant, comedic fantasy. Turning his attention to the arts of war and politics, the 31st Discworld novel, Monstrous Regiment, is a satrical look at war through the eyes of the last regiment not... [Click here to read more]

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Heresy by S. J. Parris Culture Guide, 4 days ago Culture > Writing Heresy by S. J. Parris Introducing Giordano Bruno, monk, magician, scientist and heretic, in a new series of historical thrillers for fans of C.J.Sansom Passion, treachery and murder: in Heresy S. J. Parris transports you to a brilliantly... [Click here to read more]

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Other Prompt Fictional Worlds, 4 days ago Culture > Writing This week's prompt is to write a storyscene in which a child (male or female) accidentally discovers a dark secret in their family's past. [Click here to read more]

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Clutching Hands Lovetrucker, 4 days ago Culture > Writing The old house was a warren of rooms and corridors and it was only by chance that I discovered a spray soaked boardwalk. A very old and decrepit man was ensconced in a blanket on a wicker chair. He gazed ruminatively out to sea as the rolling waves... [Click here to read more]

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Earthquakes, bad weather, and Us Freedom 2010 or Freedumb, 4 days ago, 1 comment Culture > Writing So we all know the world is round. Whether or not we believe in Noah's Ark and The Great Flood- we know at one point in time the earth was flooded. [Click here to read more]

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Pep Talk and Competition Fictional Worlds, 5 days ago, 4 comments Culture > Writing Today starts off a brand new week, and it's time to look at the month ahead. You might still be struggling with writing a new opening for your book, or you might be almost to the end of your second draft already. [Click here to read more]

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The Last Dance Lovetrucker, 5 days ago Culture > Writing I had almost forgotten the recent past and seeing the young woman brought it all back; the puzzling meeting at the roadhouse and the incoherent escape from the encroaching headlights. Her intentions had been oblique and shrouded, no more so than... [Click here to read more]

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Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop The Authors Cafe, 6 days ago Culture > Writing "The Darkness has had a Prince for a long, long time. Now the Queen is coming..." Originally published in 1998, Anne Bishops Black Jewel Trilogy takes the fantasy epic to a whole new level. A world of the Blood - those gifted with the ability... [Click here to read more]

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the Tea Dance Lovetrucker, 6 days ago Culture > Writing It was probably morning when I emerged from my room after a fitful night. The hotel seemed to be built at odd angles with unpredictable alcoves and corridors at every turn. I finally found my way downstairs, following a smell of cooking and rancid... [Click here to read more]

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Blogging as the future of global opinion-shaping Bloggercises, 7 days ago, 2 comments Culture > Writing The assertions being seen regularly in Bloggercises posts that blogging will take over the world are yet to elicit a response from MI5, the CIA, Mossad or the Taliban, which surprises us because they could all do with a bit of an image massage. ... [Click here to read more]