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Your Writers Voice is Inside You

You literally must pour yourself into your writing. That isn't as much a cliche as you may have thought.Why do you write? I write to change my world by revising it and giving it a happy ending.
Harriet SilkwoodFebruary 02, 2006

7 Surefire-Tips For Writing “Make-People-Read” Article

It’s not something new that writing article can bring considerable amounts of traffic to your web site thus give you more profits. Today all net has been flooded with articles, which purpose to capture instant traffic for their owners.
Andrew HeuwFebruary 02, 2006

Feedback, the Beauty and the Bane

I use the words: feedback, review and critique interchangeably to mean the same thing in this article.I love getting critiques. It makes me feel acknowledged and important. Someone took the time to think about my work and give feedback.
Harriet SilkwoodFebruary 02, 2006

Newsletter Editors Are Writers Too

I love to write. I begin writing with kid-lit for my grand-kids, home made just for them. I write for fun. I have also written some rants and a few random thoughts. I write nothing fancy, PC (punctuated correctly), or of novel length.
Harriet SilkwoodFebruary 02, 2006

To Edit or Revise

Are you receiving the right type of feedback?New writers don't realize how much they don't know about writing until they begin to write. Hey, it's not easy! Writing is fun. The real work begins with revising and editing.
Harriet SilkwoodFebruary 02, 2006

Reviewing New Writers

New writers are very vulnerable and need to be handled gently, but not with kid-gloves. Keeping a friendly tone is very important for the reviewer. Because we are working together online, we can’t see each others faces or body language.
Harriet SilkwoodFebruary 02, 2006

The Rules are Simple

I wanted to come in here and write something profound and memorial, but alas, it ain’t gonna happen today. I hope what I do say speaks to you anyway.I joined a writers group while I was fired up, excited and anxious to learn ‘the right...
Harriet SilkwoodFebruary 02, 2006

Analysis of Heloise: A Medieval Woman

Heloise was completely unlike my perceptions of what medieval women were like. I was under the impression that the women of this time period were weak in spirit, obedient, and usually chaste.
Mary ArnoldJanuary 30, 2006

Writing A Book - Tips From An Author #7

Secrets of the PlotThe one overriding principle you have to remember when creating a blockbuster of a plot is to avoid randomness. A good story is a chain of events, and each link in the chain is bound to other links (otherwise it isn't a...
www.GetPlotted.comJanuary 30, 2006

What Makes Fiction Special

What Makes Fiction SpecialI was in a brisk discussion about whether a woman ‘would’ or ‘would not’ leave her wayward husband when a man interrupted and said, “But he’s not real! It’s fiction!” It was time to...
Rebecca GuevaraJanuary 30, 2006