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Thursday, August 14, 2008

BWC - writer and reader guidelines

The spirit of this enterprise is to encourage and give substantial feedback to writers who want to be published sooner or later. We're here in a somewhat kinder atmosphere than the real world of publishing. Kinder, but we need it to still be frank and useful. It isn't about clicks or popularity or... Sign in to see full entry.

BWC Post your links here!

Blogit Writers' Club participants: You can post a link in comments here, and I will edit it to this front page so it will be easier for us to find each other. The link should be to the first page of your piece... but I explained all that in the post before this... The Blogit Cafe is also a good... Sign in to see full entry.

Blogit Writers' Club

(How long since you've been propositioned?) Here's what I have in mind: When you write something for which you want serious feedback, and can take it on the chin if you don't like what you hear, put a note in the headline: BWC and say a few words in the intro to your post about what sort of feedback... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Writing horror

A couple of years ago, I went to a sci-fi/fantasy writer's conference and attended a panel on writing horror. A few writers, some published, read samples of their work. Each of them seemed to have the same idea of what comprises 'horror.' Mostly, it meant a lot of blood and gore, a lot of violence,... Sign in to see full entry.

So... Who speaks Italian? Doing foreign vocabulary right

I don't, not beyond getting about a bit as a tourist. When do you use 'de' vs 'degli' vs 'dei' and are these all forms of 'of' or 'of the'? I've been reading a fine historic novel called THE DUCHESS OF MILAN which is liberally salted with Italian rudenessess, too--and some of them would be right at... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 8, 2008

post 54 - THE HERETICS - memories and clarifications

ch 13 the Book (cont) "What are you sitting there for? Admiring the view? Get on, you silly, noodle-minded, misbegotten, corrupted spawn of Lilith! Get up!" She waved back at me in a friendly fashion. Obviously, she couldn’t hear what I was after saying to her.. But at least she was moving again. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Writing around personal bias

MedicineFlower wrote a piece today-- http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MedicineFlower1372/ --on the necessity of separating out personal bias and agenda from the writing of a novel. It got me thinking... This is not at all rebuttal of MedicineFlower's point, but heads off in a somewhat other... Sign in to see full entry.

new photo Prompt!

Who built this little shelter, who made the not-so-subtle trail to it, from the established hiking trail? When and why? What do you think? Remember to bring a link to comments here, should you be prompted to create something around or about this image! Sign in to see full entry.

The best part of writing: RESEARCH!

In all the years of formal education, I always hated having to do research. Looking things up... no fun at all! Maybe because it was always a way my parents (most parents) blew off questions, told me I was bothering them, they had better things to do... Of course, that "Go look it up!" just fed... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

A Prompt of words and philosophies--

"Today is the third day of the rest of your life." Sign in to see full entry.

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