Tag: Forum Friday
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Forum Friday: Learned in Reading
A writer is always learning, always improving his or her craft. And one of the first ways that we do this is through a well-rounded literary diet. We learn from what we consume! So for today’s Forum Friday, I’m asking readers and writers: What is something you have recently learned (in terms of craft, grammar, […]
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Forum Friday: Creative Warm-Ups
Every writer’s practice is different, but we all get stuck sometimes, right? That’s where a warm-up or creative exercise– a mad libs, a freewrite, a list, a blog post, a letter that you’ll never send, what have you– can fling a handful of fun at you and save the day. Do you use a creative […]
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Forum Friday: Unsatisfactory Endings
Has the ending of a book ever just made you wanna scream, cry, destroy sandcastles, or hoard Neapolitan ice cream sandwiches in your room and never come out again? You’ll never get those 7 hours back! Why did you think it was a good idea to read this book? How did it ever end up […]
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Forum Friday: Craft & Reference Books
The more I experience of novels (reading, writing, and reading about them), the more I am struck by the brimming seas of information and resources out there on novel craft, improving writing, grammar/punctuation, character and story development, etc. etc. etc. ad every element you can possibly imagine related to writing and or publishing a work […]
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Forum Friday: Islands and Worlds
You may have heard the famous John Donne quote, No man is an island. And yet, another great poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, says this: For the creator must beĀ a world for himself and find everything in himself and in Nature to whom he has attached himself. Can’t be an island. Must be a world. […]
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Petty Man(uscript) Problems
In the last couple days I’ve been converting my latest version of a WIP to manuscript format. A simple task in theory. I mean, I already wrote the book– drafted and added to and cut and changed and edited and critiqued and revised and revised and revised (and did I say revised?) it– how hard […]
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Forum Friday: Dedications
Dedications. I’ve had one in the back of my mind for a while now, but now that I actually come to it I realize it’s something I’ve not given as much thought as it probably deserves. So for today’s writing-related Forum Friday, I want to open the floor to talk about book dedications. Some starter […]
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When was the last time you REALLY went without internet for a day?
If you’re a regular reader, you may be wondering what in blazes happened and where the devil is yesterday’s Forum Friday? Or you may not be. But ‘what in blazes’ and ‘where the devil’ are fun expressions, and everybody should use them more often. To answer the questions you may or may not be asking, […]