Whew! Luckily, I managed to snare Stephen Edger, today’s featured writer, for a chat before Thursday when his second novel is published and, technically, he is no longer eligible to be interviewed for my Debut Author Q&A series. There I go again doing things just under the wire… Name: Stephen Edger Name of book: Integration [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Writing Tip #59
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged Amy Adams, Disney, Entertainment Weekly, Jason Segal, Jim Henson, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Muppet, Muppet Show on November 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
All it takes is one person to believe… I took my kids to see The Muppets yesterday, a film which actor Jason Segal is pretty much singlehandedly responsible for getting made. If I’m to believe what I read in Entertainment Weekly (and why shouldn’t I?), Disney executives asked to meet with Segal in order to [...]
Writing Tip #58
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged Catching Fire, Hunger Games, narrative voice, narrator, Suzanne Collins, YA on November 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Make sure your narrator and his/her narrative voice jibe. Although I’m currently reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, this week I picked up another YA book my 14-year-old son had discarded on the dining room table. I read the first three short chapters to pass the time while some photos I had taken were uploading, [...]
Katy Perry at Madison Square Garden: A Night to Remember
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts, Firework, Garden, katyperry, Madison Square Garden, New York, New York City, Woody Allen on November 17, 2011 | 12 Comments »
“Do you know that there’s still a chance for you?” – “Firework,” Katy Perry I often hear from people that the reason they don’t enter writing contests or competitions is because of the sheer numbers out there doing the exact same thing. “What are the odds that I’ll win?” they say. Let me tell you [...]
Writing Tip #57
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tips, tagged Writing and Editing, Writing process on November 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Don’t think about editing. Or marketing. Just write. It’s tempting when you’re piecing together your story to think about things that are down the road, like how on earth you’re going to sell this book or what classification or genre it falls into or whether or not you’ll be able to secure an agent or [...]
The Not So Silence of the Lambs
Posted in Reading List, Uncategorized, tagged Anthony Hopkins, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs on November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So I’m reading a thriller titled Fallen by Karin Slaughter… And there’s a scene where a FBI-type must go to a prison and visit a particularly heinous guy who is in isolation — a gloomy little section of the prison that the author calls, and what many other books/television shows call, “the hole.” The warden [...]
Writing Tip #56
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts, Daylight saving time, Dictionaries, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Standard time, Twitter, Vocabulary Lists, Word count, Writers Resources, writing on November 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Fall back or spring ahead? Today’s writing tip is inspired by the shift back to standard time this morning and the glorious 9 hours of sleep that I got last night, which I soon realized was actually 10 hours of sleep! Go, me! Yesterday evening, I asked my fellow tweeps if I should go ahead [...]
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