Craft

Updated Goals

I started this list back on December 28, and I think I made some real progrwss. Set up my website www.ginaconroy.com in progress! I’m still struggling with finding the right host for my domain. I started out with Hosting Matters, then switched to A Small Orange, then to Go Daddy and now I’m looking at DotEasy.…

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Quick Fiction Fixes – Use your nose

But don’t just give your readers the visual descriptions—give them the experience of walking into the setting by stimulating their olfactory senses. In other words, smell. Our scent memory is incredibly powerful. We don’t necessarily remember the exact smell so much as we feel certain emotions triggered by a smell, or even the mention of…

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It Works for Me

As I wait for the impending release of Ruby Among Us (Jan 2008), I work furiously on my second novel. One thing I have learned about the second one is that I am pretty much writing it using the same process I used for the first one. At first, I tried to be very organized.…

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Guest Blogger Mary DeMuth on Writing Resolutions

Will this be the year of your dreams come true? Or just another ho-hum year where you plug away (or not) and end up in the same place you were when you started? How do writers break in? Or better yet, break through? If you’d like to head toward that slippery nirvana called publication, read…

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Getting Organized

by Dena Dyer www.denadyer.com If you have a resolution to “get organized” with your writing, here are a few tips that have worked for me: 1. First, know your organizing personality. For example, don’t try to use notebooks if you’re not a notebook person. If you love doing everything paperless, go paperless. Don’t try and…

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Flash Fiction: Mick Silva

Busy today. A bit crazed, in fact. I’d like to say I’m good on days like these, but I’m not. In truth, they make me retreat into fantasy. Anything to escape… “Do you have the time,” the clock asks, no doubt amused by the irony in his statement, I’m sure. Cheeky clocks are forever messing…

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A Writer Going Home

Celebrating my savior’s birth notwithstanding, at this point I feel loaded down with the holiday season’s commercialism and busyness. Don’t misunderstand. Christmas was great, but how do I come down from it, so I can get back to writing? Sugar plum fairies still dance in my head uninvited. Really, you too? So then, what do…

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Christmas To Do List Update

Well it wasn’t on my to do list, but I just spent the entire day cooking for a small dinner party. Now I’m too exhausted and too stuffed to do anything else but go to bed! (Though it is kind of early and I can get some good reading time in. ) I guess staying…

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“Writerly” Resolutions

We writers need rejuvenation every now and then . . . especially when the rejection slips start to pile up, the endless “waiting game” becomes maddening and the mailman looks on us with pity as he hands us (yet another) fat envelope. Since the start of a new year is a perfect time to begin…

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Fall Into Reading Wrap Up

Wow! What an awesome challenge! I’m a competitive person so this challenge really helped me focus on the books I said I would read. When it came time to pick up another fiction book, I heard that little voice (don’t know if it was Katrina’s or not) but it said, “Your non-ficiton book list has…

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