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  • Review: A Face Not Seen…

    I love reading and reviewing people’s books and have taken part in many blog tours on Goodreads. So when Michael Ross on Facebook asked if anyone would like to review his book, I immediately said yes. Most of the books I have reviewed have been very good, and this was no exception. I really liked…

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  • Entering Short Story Competitions

    Originally posted on Chris Hill, Author: Should you bother? It’s a yes in my view. I used to enter lots of short story competitions when I was first starting out as a writer, and for a good while after too. I got precisely nowhere in most of them of course, but I did win some,…

  • A last visit…

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Glastonbury was ready for Christmas, the streets decked with lights and trees. We, of course, were not there for the festivities, but to give the final talk of 2014, the last of the current series in Glastonbury. It will be the last meeting with our friends in…

  • It Gave Me Goosebumps

    Originally posted on Jens Thoughts: I was cleaning out my email and found this quote I had saved. I got goose bumps when I read it again. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer…

  • Five Ways to Find Writing Time

    Five Ways to Find Writing Time

    great post…brilliant advice, and good luck with ‘Luke’s Rule! Cynthia Harrison Lately, I just cannot find the time to write and it’s making me crazy because if I don’t write, I don’t fully enter into my inner reality. I live a shallow, surface, running around being busy kind of life. No month is busier than…

  • For Carrie

    For Carrie

    Originally posted on The Bingergread Cottage:  In November I ran a prize draw on my author page asking people to suggest subjects for a short story. This was the winner as it touched my heart very deeply. “Juanita Clarke For my daughter, Carolina who sadly passed away 3 years ago………”  I asked Juanita for some…

  • …Rockie Writin’ High… I’m on the Author’s Pink Cloud, and I ain’t comin’ off any time soon…

    Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher: ? …when yeez have been kicking around as long as this ol’ Jurassic, there’s not much left, really, to get the blood pumping with excitement… but yesterday, was an exceptional day… my friends at Crooked Cat Publishing contracted with me to run with the other books in my Jack Calder crime…

  • 10 of the Worst Cliches in Fiction Writing

    10 of the Worst Cliches in Fiction Writing

    Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work: If you like to read like Mr. Bemis, then you notice these, too. I’m a reader because all good writers are readers.  Mostly, however, I read because I love to read.  I am in many ways like Henry Bemis in “Time Enough At Last”, adapted from a Lyne Venable…

  • Compassion – What’s In It For Me?

    If we all did just one thing, the world would be a better place…

  • Writing a main character

    interesting and valuable post…

  • Review: A Face Not Seen…

    I love reading and reviewing people’s books and have taken part in many blog tours on Goodreads. So when Michael Ross on Facebook asked if anyone would like to review his book, I immediately said yes. Most of the books I have reviewed have been very good, and this was no exception. I really liked…

    , ,

  • Entering Short Story Competitions

    Originally posted on Chris Hill, Author: Should you bother? It’s a yes in my view. I used to enter lots of short story competitions when I was first starting out as a writer, and for a good while after too. I got precisely nowhere in most of them of course, but I did win some,…

  • A last visit…

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Glastonbury was ready for Christmas, the streets decked with lights and trees. We, of course, were not there for the festivities, but to give the final talk of 2014, the last of the current series in Glastonbury. It will be the last meeting with our friends in…

  • It Gave Me Goosebumps

    Originally posted on Jens Thoughts: I was cleaning out my email and found this quote I had saved. I got goose bumps when I read it again. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer…

  • Five Ways to Find Writing Time

    Five Ways to Find Writing Time

    great post…brilliant advice, and good luck with ‘Luke’s Rule! Cynthia Harrison Lately, I just cannot find the time to write and it’s making me crazy because if I don’t write, I don’t fully enter into my inner reality. I live a shallow, surface, running around being busy kind of life. No month is busier than…

  • For Carrie

    For Carrie

    Originally posted on The Bingergread Cottage:  In November I ran a prize draw on my author page asking people to suggest subjects for a short story. This was the winner as it touched my heart very deeply. “Juanita Clarke For my daughter, Carolina who sadly passed away 3 years ago………”  I asked Juanita for some…

  • …Rockie Writin’ High… I’m on the Author’s Pink Cloud, and I ain’t comin’ off any time soon…

    Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher: ? …when yeez have been kicking around as long as this ol’ Jurassic, there’s not much left, really, to get the blood pumping with excitement… but yesterday, was an exceptional day… my friends at Crooked Cat Publishing contracted with me to run with the other books in my Jack Calder crime…

  • 10 of the Worst Cliches in Fiction Writing

    10 of the Worst Cliches in Fiction Writing

    Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work: If you like to read like Mr. Bemis, then you notice these, too. I’m a reader because all good writers are readers.  Mostly, however, I read because I love to read.  I am in many ways like Henry Bemis in “Time Enough At Last”, adapted from a Lyne Venable…

  • Compassion – What’s In It For Me?

    If we all did just one thing, the world would be a better place…

  • Writing a main character

    interesting and valuable post…