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Writing Recommendation #8- Outline Your Draft
Dan
  • Apr 1, 2018
  • 1 min

Writing Recommendation #8- Outline Your Draft

Howdy, Recently, I started revising my latest manuscript. Yes, I did take Matt Bird's advice and set aside the draft for a few weeks…...
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Dan
  • Mar 27, 2018
  • 1 min

Hottest Potato

Howdy, Got some good news today. I found out The Future of Our Prosperity is included in the Editor's Choice for the last quarter over on...
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Writing Recommendation #7: Riff-Writing
Dan
  • Mar 17, 2018
  • 1 min

Writing Recommendation #7: Riff-Writing

Howdy, I first heard about riff-writing from book editor Elizabeth Lyon when she visited my writing group a few years back. The riff in...
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Dan
  • Mar 5, 2018
  • 1 min

Writing Recommendation #6: Set your Draft Aside for…

Howdy, This post is another tip from The Secrets of Story by Matt Bird. It's one I've taken advantage of many times in the past. Matt...
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Dan
  • Feb 24, 2018
  • 1 min

Story Acceptance

Howdy, I woke up to good news today. Another story accepted, this time Wakizashi over at AuroraWolf.com. I'm pretty damn pleased, to say...
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Dan
  • Feb 15, 2018
  • 1 min

Writing Recommendation #5: No Cold Starts

Howdy, Today I thought I'd share one of the best pieces of writing advice I think I’ve ever encountered. A couple of years ago I saw...
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Writing Recommendation #4: Listen to your Writing
Dan
  • Feb 5, 2018
  • 1 min

Writing Recommendation #4: Listen to your Writing

Howdy, I recently finished The Secrets of Story by Matt Bird. Wow. What can I say? Scads of storytelling advice fill each page. Most his...
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Dan
  • Jan 29, 2018
  • 1 min

New Story Live

Howdy, Happy Monday! The Future of Our Prosperity is up at http://www.bewilderingstories.com/. Here's a teaser: in a dystopian future,...
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Writing Recommendation #3: Emotional Thesaurus
Dan
  • Jan 28, 2018
  • 1 min

Writing Recommendation #3: Emotional Thesaurus

Howdy, Struggle with telling opposed to showing characters’ emotional reactions? I have. Still do, but I'm improving. In my quest to make...
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Dan
  • Jan 23, 2018
  • 1 min

Writing Recommendation #2: Avoid Talking Heads

Howdy, What's worse than a character or characters spewing huge blocks of dialogue without any intervening action? Pages and pages and...
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Dan
  • Jan 19, 2018
  • 1 min

Writing Recommendation #1: Voice

Howdy, Since you're here, you're probably an aspiring author, just like me. This is the first post in a series recommending books that...
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