▣ Writing Tips
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As I think about the things I've learned or think I've learned decided to jot some thoughts down today.
For Memoirs Writers. What will the title of you memoir be? I have one in the works called
Life Happened, I Became.
▣ Challenge to keep moving forward
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I'm reviewing notes from a workshop where the presenter said the biggest challenge is to stay published once you are. He sail usualling a publisher offers only a one book deal. That seems right to me. He also said diversification is the key and recommends Facebook, twitter, and myspace. However, he says to be careful of blogs. I don't get why.
He advises that we work harder and smarter and I agree with that. He also mentions that writing is expensive since no one will pay to put you on the road any more.
He advised that you should write what you have a passion for and not nescessarily what you know which is opposite of what many say. I say that if you have a passion for it, you probably know a lot about it too.
He says to build a platform with short stories that are 3,500 to 4,000 words. Agents will troll and find these. He discourages e-books especially for mysteries, and mentions that libraries have no money.
In his mind, the trend is to character driven books, not plot driven and the book should be between 60,000 and 100,000 words (Mine range from 71,000 to 87,000, so I'm in that ball park.
For Memoirs writers: What is your passion...or what was your passion. Is it a person, place, thing or what?
▣ Holiday Melancholia
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- Tags:
- Christmas melancholy,money, lonely, ways to cope
- songs,cry, why, when,where, what, who
- synopsis,how to,surprize,ending, Agents,Editors
- Thanksgiving, thankful, recipe. friends
- threat, worry, protagonist, tension, micro tension
- tour, Columbus, Chillicothe, Bainbridge, Sinking spring,ancestors, genealogy, family stories, Crum,cemetary
- What\'s up,shoes, applacian,nature, drama,mystery, suspense, shoes
- writer\'s block,woodcarving, character sheets,review of character,breaking the logjam
- writer\'s voice, Mary Higgan\'s Clark,be yourself,unique, Bite of the Serpent
- writing romance, the watcher,Boucheran, writing conference, hike in snow
Everyone seems to become more sensitive during the holidays and if something is wrong, it feels much more wrong at that time than at any other time. Depression looms large when you've no one to share your life with and if you don't have much money it's easy to think there is nothing you can do to brighten your holidays.
That isn't True!
I like the idea of lonely people banding together to share the season like a family would. It may not be ideal but it can be special. Some recreation centers and senior centers have parties ect and are cheap to join but for those who this won't work for, there are still options. A friend of mine recently lamented that he had no car, no money, and his family wasn't even getting together this year for a celebration because they couldn't afford it. I made some of the following suggestions to him as well as some other ideas more personal to his situation.
Christmas is magic...don't forget it but let the magic reach out to and envelope you. Santa Clause is a spirit if not a man.
▣ More about writing from workshop notes
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- pain,material,poem,liquid grief
- pesky,poem, challenge,serendipity,joy, hate,unfair
- poem, Bookworld,time, phone, alone
- poetry, soul, different designs, the veil,respite, me, me, me
- reminder, blog, mysteries of southern ohio
- scribes, house of scribes, new world, peace pipe, natives
- short story,burglar, post, shotgun
- SIC,crime,goals, book signings,Chillicothe,Bite of the Serpent, mysteries of southern Ohio, google
- smile, laughter, funny, antagonist, world view,stereotype, reverse
- songs,cry, why, when,where, what, who
- synopsis,how to,surprize,ending, Agents,Editors
- Thanksgiving, thankful, recipe. friends
- threat, worry, protagonist, tension, micro tension
- tour, Columbus, Chillicothe, Bainbridge, Sinking spring,ancestors, genealogy, family stories, Crum,cemetary
- What\'s up,shoes, applacian,nature, drama,mystery, suspense, shoes
- writer\'s block,woodcarving, character sheets,review of character,breaking the logjam
- writer\'s voice, Mary Higgan\'s Clark,be yourself,unique, Bite of the Serpent
- writing romance, the watcher,Boucheran, writing conference, hike in snow
For my memoirs followers: Write about a special Thanksgiving. Who was there, was it good, was it bad. Why? What was happy, and what was sad about it.
▣ Expanding your Character
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- birthday,today,gift, book signing
- birthdays, growth, yardstick,
- Bouchercon mystery writers, expanding characters, Donald Mass, literary agent,first five pages
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- dreams, past, friends, memories, happy times
- early memories, memoirs, prompts,buggy,rides, mother, brother
- hands, what are they doing?, tedious, spaces and lines
- Hillbilly band, Tom T. Hall, music, berries, party, sing, dance
- hobo, party,country,fun,can,recipe
- Lake Erie, trip,water,coffee, shore
- Lancaster, Wilmington, Chillicothe, next book, bite of serpent, signings
- lyrics, lines, thief,iceskating,guilty, feet,rhythm
- mottos to live by, appearances, children ,observers, persistant, ethical code
- natural disaster,what happened, what did you do, how did it change you, do you have flashbacks
- pain,material,poem,liquid grief
- pesky,poem, challenge,serendipity,joy, hate,unfair
- poem, Bookworld,time, phone, alone
- poetry, soul, different designs, the veil,respite, me, me, me
- reminder, blog, mysteries of southern ohio
- scribes, house of scribes, new world, peace pipe, natives
- short story,burglar, post, shotgun
- SIC,crime,goals, book signings,Chillicothe,Bite of the Serpent, mysteries of southern Ohio, google
- songs,cry, why, when,where, what, who
- tour, Columbus, Chillicothe, Bainbridge, Sinking spring,ancestors, genealogy, family stories, Crum,cemetary
- What\'s up,shoes, applacian,nature, drama,mystery, suspense, shoes
- writer\'s block,woodcarving, character sheets,review of character,breaking the logjam
- writer\'s voice, Mary Higgan\'s Clark,be yourself,unique, Bite of the Serpent
- writing romance, the watcher,Boucheran, writing conference, hike in snow
In this writing I'm fresh back from a writing convention with a lot of new ideas. I hope they will help others as well.
▣ A Writer's Voice
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It has been mentioned that my personality is coming through in my books and these are my comments regarding that.