Archive for August 2013
Fictional Friday: Beware the Ides of March, by Amy Drown
Every author can pinpoint “The Moment”—the one in which the passion for storytelling irrevocably took hold. When the calling to pursue this gut-wrenching, nail-biting, ulcer-inducing, slightly schizophrenic career became unmistakably clear. When a wily Muse dropped an anvil on her head, stars filled her eyes, and little birdies began to...
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Words for Women: Imagination Versus Experience, by Anita Higman
In my latest novel, Winter in Full Bloom, I wrote more from experience than imagination, but both were so interwoven throughout the work, that the pieces became one fabric—one story. Still, I would say that there are more pieces of my personal life in this work than in any other...
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Marketing Monday: When You Don’t Have Anything to Say (Author Sites, Part Seven)
In a perfect world, ideas for blog posts would just flow without effort. (In a perfect world, any part of the writing process would flow.) Sometimes you have something specific to say. But what about those days that you just can’t think of anything interesting about which to write? In...
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Fictional Friday: Writing Chose Me, by Rachel Phifer
• Fictional Friday, Guest Bloggers, Inspiration, Writing Life
It was never a choice. Writing is in my DNA. If I’d been born before books and laptops, I probably would have told stories to my clan around the campfire. When I was a kid, and grownups would ask what I was going to be, I knew the answer. A...
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