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The Writer’s Job Description
WANTED: Writer The world is looking for an organized and motivated writer to entertain, inform, and affect us. Candidate should be able to elicit a wide range of emotions at the stroke of a few keys. Skills and Abilities: Must be proficient in a wide range of plot choices and tropes as well as…
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“Long Live The Delicious Paranormal Romance”
Thanks for giving me an opportunity to rant a bit. When I was close to finishing the first draft of my paranormal romance, Omega Rising, back in late 2013/early 2014, the world (meaning a lot of agents, editors, and bloggers I respected) declared the paranormal romance dead. “Can’t sell PNRs anymore.” The articles came fast and…
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Tackling the rejection blues
Confession: Hi everyone. I’m a writer and I have an inner running back. It’s not a peduncled growth scooting along on my body. Good guess, but no. It’s a position on a football team and I have an imaginary one. I was able to make the leap from writer to author because my inner running…
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Dumping the muse
I don’t have a lot of time today so here’s my haiku for today: The elusive muse dances coyly near then far Eff off I got this Blasphemy? Nah. Fiction writers are fiction writers because of our imaginations, not because of some ethereal muse who may or may not show up when you need it.…