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• What Makes a Good Critique Buddy?

  
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  Finding good beta readers and/or critique buddies is such a difficult thing, honestly. You will also probably get ten different writers saying ten different things about what they want from someone playing this role. My own opinion on this subject has changed a lot over the years. I was in writing groups for ...
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• A Pantser Reformed (sort of)

  
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  I’vebeen a writer since I could remember, spinning tales in my mind and lettingthem spill across the paper like an overfilled fountain.  That worked fine for short stories, collegeessays, and op-ed pieces for the local city paper, it didn’t work so well for100k novels.  When I wrote the firstdraft of my debut ...
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• 9 Lessons from a Sophomore Novelist

  
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  With the completion of my second novel, THE JERICHO DECEPTION—a thriller that explores how a secret CIA mind-control operation in the Egyptian desert threatens to start a modern day Holy War (hitting stores now!) - I thought it might be helpful to share some of the lessons I’ve learned through the tough struggles ...
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• How to Make Your Characters Believable

  
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  When I was a baby, the movie Jaws was in theaters.  My parents couldn’t find a babysitter so along I went.  The film is suspenseful and gripping.  But it seems that the audience of that particular showing got more than they bargained for.  As a baby, I stood on my mother’s lap, clapped and cheered ever time ...
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• Advice For New Writers

  
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  This is the best advice for new writers Ive read: Believe in yourself, because nobody else will, at least not in the beginning. Not at the level necessary to keep you going through rejections, bad advice, job loss, illness, grief and everything else life lobs at us. There is something about you as an individual that ...
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• Building Strong Stories is Like Putting a Jigsaw Puzzle Together

  
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  Nothing is more frustrating to a reader than to begin a story, investing emotionally, getting attached and, part way through, realizing the writer is not taking you anywhere; you are lost with no resolution, let alone any satisfying denouement, on the horizon. The TV series, Lost, is a recent case in point (how ...
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• Practical Advice for Beginning Fiction Writers

  
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  I’m not a grizzled veteran of fiction writing. POISON PILL is my first work of fiction, and I began writing it in November 2010. I cannot offer decades of experience, but I’m still close enough to the beginner’s stage to remember my mistakes (and repeat them – so please consider this a “best practices” ...
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• Virtual Book Signings

  
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  Whilst its always nice to get out there and do in person events, where you get to connect with your readers face to face, it isnt always easy. You need a location, copies of your book and a whole host of other stuff that can take time, effort and money to organise. For those writers that prefer to be writing away in ...
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• YoungPrePro: Learn To Write And Earn!

  
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  Often it has been seen that people wish to work on the Internet in their free time to earn some extra income. Freelance writing is a great way to make money on the internet. However, one surely needs to have some good knowledge about writing content and a good idea about what actually is needed to attract the ...
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• A Round Up of London Book Fair 2013

  
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  The London Book Fair took place 15-17 April 2013 at Earls Court in London, UK. I really wish I could have been there myself but sadly it didnt happen this year. I did follow it virtually though and there was some great information and advice shared. From what I saw it was also quite the social setting with loads of ...
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• Honoring The Words of A Literary Critic on World Book Day

  
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  Today is World Book Day, founded by UNESCO, but celebrated in the U.K. in March. Ironic if you watched yesterday’s video, The History of English :-) And, being a writer who blogs five days a week about Reading, Writing, and Publishing, World Book Day makes me think about writing more than reading… I’ve certainly ...
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• Must We Tell All?

  
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  My writing workshop students and I were having a lively discussion recently about the pros and cons of using real life in our work. Half of the class is trying to figure out if they want to tell their stories via memoir or novel. One woman had turned in pages for critique about her relationship with her adult ...
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• Interview with Joseph M Rinaldo

  
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  When did you know you wanted to be a writer?   While reading  Three Weeks with My Brother  by Nicholas Sparks, I learned he received a million-dollar advance. I thought, "Hes good, but I can do this." That was in 2004, and Ive been writing ever since. The confidence to do this came from my English teacher in my ...
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• Social Media Demographics

  
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  With so many social media options available it can all feel a bit overwhelming. How do you know which are the best sites to use for your marketing efforts?  The Pew Research Center has released the results of a comprehensive social media survey, conducted over several years to evaluate which demographics were ...
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• Ten Successful Tips For Independent Authors

  
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  With as much humility as I can muster, I think it is safe to say that I have written a successful novel.  Collapse  is closing in on 6K paid downloads and has 221 reviews, 172 of which are 4 and 5 stars.  My point is not to brag, but to give you the qualifications to write this post.  I would like to impart to ...
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• Learning to Adapt

  
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  Hello, Muffin friends! If Ive learned one lesson from living the writers life, its this: adapt. Of course, the second lesson Ive learned is simple, too. When something goes wrong, everything goes wrong. :) Lets take today, for instance. I had planned on posting a book review for your Saturday viewing pleasure. But ...
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• Speak Your Book into Being

  
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  Writers are known for their way with words and through the years we have all seen them depicted hunched over typewriters in dusty rooms as their minds spun tales translated by their nimble fingers tapping onto the keys. I’ve often wondered how the process of creativity overlaps the necessary concentration ...
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• Plotter or Pantser

  
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  When it came to my first book, I just wroteit, in complete ignorance of the “rules” of writing books.  The characters and the plot had been rattlingaround in my head for years and a fortuitous skiing accident left me alone witha notebook computer in a ski chalet. For the next few months I used every sparemoment ...
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• Naming Fictional Characters

  
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  Peopleoften ask me how I name my characters. Sometimes I mash the keyboard and seewhat name I can make up with the letters that come up – yes really, that is nowI named the characters from my first ever book. BUT sometimes I choose to namethem after fictional characters I myself love. Formy 1 Night Stand ...
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• Top Ten: Character Connections

  
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  I’moften asked if any of my characters are based on people I know in real life, orif their situations ever mimic any of my own. The short answer is yes . I’ve definitely used my knowledgeof the aquatic environment to describe the scenery, and there have been severalcharacters whose traits I may have adopted from ...
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