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Author: Ace Baker
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Picture it #004: Blessing in Disguise
Sometimes it’s good that we don’t get as much as we want as soon as we want it: Try this: Write about a time when you didn’t get what you wanted…and it was a GOOD thing!
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Quotation Inspiration #009: Words, not swords!
The power of words can be amazing: Try this: Write about a cause, a person, an idea you believe in!
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Guest post by Anastasia Stratu: UNHAPPY ENDINGS: Will Amazon Control Our Reading?
Today, I have a guest post for you from a writer who creates technofantasy worlds and also blogs about social media and marketing. In other words, a right-brainer AND a left-brainer! Meet Anastasia Stratu: Unhappy Endings – Will Amazon Control Our Reading? by Anastasia Stratu This article by Chris Abouzeid caused quite a stir in my…
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Putting myself out there…writing goals for Oct 2014 to Oct 2015!
Ok, a bit of a heart to heart post today, from one writer to another. Yesterday, I wrote about the benefits of journaling and setting writing goals. Today, I’ll show you what I mean by that. Here are my writing goals for my upcoming writing year: 1. Find a GOOD agent. 2. Write a new…
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Quotation Inspiration #008: Patience can help you grow as a writer!
Here’s another minimalist poster with a message I love (and need to keep in mind personally): It’s always tempting to compare yourself to others and to want the success they’ve had, and to want that RIGHT NOW. I’m guilty of it, too. But one of the best moves I ever made was to start JOURNALING…
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Name drop 2: MICHAEL SLADE!
Just in case you even for a moment thought Lisa Unger would respond and Michael Slade wouldn’t, here’s a post from the Master of Horror himself: That’s what good books and good teachers do, right? Pass on the passion from one generation to the next! By the way, that talk of Slade’s I went to in…
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Lisa Unger prologue update
Just thought I’d update you with a tweet I got from Lisa Unger herself, New York Times bestselling author of 12 novels in 26 languages, who already commented about a post I made about PROLOGUES just yesterday: Ok, so you’ve been warned by the lady herself (who’s a champ for responding so quickly considering her busy schedule!).…
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Quotation Inspiration #007: Dostoyevsky asks a good question for all of you with writer’s block
Dostoyevsky asks a good question for all of you with writer’s block: Try this: Choose a year of your life (by date, grade, year of university, year of marriage) and focus on one event of that year. Use it as a springboard to a new piece of writing!
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Prologue Trick from Lisa Unger and Michael Slade and…
To some editors and many readers that “P” word, “prologue,” is almost a swear word. Piles of readers skip over prologues to get to “the meat” of the story. Some editors HATE them. But…what if your story needs one? Here’s a strategy used by Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies: October 25th, 1972 There were times…
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SUMMER OF BLADES is one of three finalists in a novel contest!
OK, SUPER EXCITING NEWS! My novel, a YA Medieval Fantasy, Summer of Blades, is one of three finalists in a contest put on by Grasmere Publishing. The winner gets his or her novel published. In other words, I am literally two books away from fulfilling a dream–having a novel in print! It gets…