J.D. Ferguson Says, Write Logically and Other Tips #AmWriting #WriteTip #HistFic

Giving advice has always left me a bit queasy, especially when the advice pertains to something as personal as fiction writing.  After all, who am I to assume that I know any more about what makes a creative mind hum than anyone else?  If fact, I doubt that I do.  But, that being said, I do relate to what budding authors experience when placing their flights-of-fancy on paper.  From that perspective I do have some observations. I...

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Lisa Consiglio Ryan on Her Favourite Food by @LisaConsiglioR #NonFiction #Wellness

What do you hope your obituary will say about you?  That I lived a life of ease and authentic love of life. How much sleep do you need to feel your best? I wish I could say 8 hours but 9 hours really changes my life! How often do you write? And when do you write?  I try to write daily in my journal as well as for my books.  Just getting a pen and doing a brain dump does wonders for my mood and also I feel I accomplished...

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A Day in the Life Belinda Vasquez Garcia @MagicProse #AmWriting #AmReading #Romance

It’s midnight. I wish there was time to be more social, but I’ve just finished up the 2nd draft of the final book of my Land of Enchantment trilogy. There are two blog tours coming up, and a book festival 2400 miles away, all within a two month period. I have a short piece of fiction to edit, which I plan to publish in the next 3 weeks. And there’s a new novel that needs editing, which I hope to publish in 7 weeks. After seven hours sleep,...

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@WillNorthAuthor Choosing Your Setting Correctly #AmWriting #WriteTip #Women

I can’t tell you how many fans have written me to say, “I don’t have to visit the places where your books are set because you’ve already taken me there.” Or, they’ll write that they can’t wait to visit those same places because they are so vivid in their minds. Setting is not just the place where the story happens, it’s not a backdrop. Setting is central to the story itself. It is a major “character” in the story. It lives. Sometimes it even determines...

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@_William_Knight Takes on #BreakingBad & Writing - #AmReading #Crime #Thriller

Breaking Bad is more than a TV show about a teacher turned rotten, it’s a metaphor for the dual personality of the struggling writer. Behold, with a tongue firmly in a cheek, here are a dozen – more or less – reasons why writers are secret repeat offenders in the vein of Walt: It’s criminal. Let’s face it, writing is so self-indulgent anybody taking part should be arrested and thrown in a dark pit for eternity. You want your customers to be addicts....

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@GaryTroia on What Scares Him the Most #AmReading #AmWriting #Fiction

What’s the one book you never get tired of and can read over and over again? The book I’ve read the most is Animal Farm. I love its paradoxical simplicity and cleverness. Why do you write? I can only describe it as an inner yearning. What scares you the most?     Not being good enough. I used to want to be as good as Swift or Orwell; but then I realised they are geniuses and I am not. Now that I’ve come to terms with...

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@JR_Tague on Things She Had Known Before Writing Her First Book #YA #Fiction #AmReading

1) You always re-write the beginning pages. Before I even had a plot for Leveling Up, I wrote the first two pages. They were basically Max introducing himself and telling the reader what he was about. When I finally had a story to go with those pages, I got a lot of positive feedback on them. Then I went to a writer’s conference and learned in one of my first workshops that the first pages always get scrapped or re-written. I thought I’d be the...

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#Excerpt from To Love A Cat by Billi Tiner #Romance #Fiction #GoodReads

Mitch ran a hand over his tired eyes. He checked the clock on his dashboard, 1:00 a.m. It had been another long day, and he wasn’t any closer to catching the man who’d brutally murdered a couple in their home. All evidence indicated that the couple had come home and surprised someone in the act of robbing them. The would-be robber had shot both victims in the chest and then escaped on foot. Several of the neighbors reported hearing the shots. Two...

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Karin Rita Gastreich's HIGH MAGA @EolynChronicles #AmReading #Fantasy #Fiction

There was a knock at the door, followed by Sir Drostan’s muffled baritone. Akmael bade the knight to enter, and kept his gaze steady upon Eolyn as Drostan crossed the room and laid a long package wrapped in well-oiled leather on the table. The knight paused and cleared his throat, looking from High Maga to Mage King as if to say something, but then he merely bowed and took his leave. Akmael removed the leather wrapping, unsheathed the sword therein...

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