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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, August 23 & 24, 2012
A 60/40 mix of craft and marketing posts today, with a final just-for-fun piece. As usual, we’ll start with craft. Kim Weiland (@KMWeiland) offers suggestions for how to Strengthen Your Writing by...
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Critique Technique, Part 29—Writers’ Tics
Writers’ tics—those sneaky, dastardly things that slip into our writing when we’re not looking and make it go CLANK! They’re insidious and terribly hard to recognize: our eyes glide right over them...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, August 25-27, 2012
Welcome to the first full-weekend edition of Great Stuff. Of course we’ve got stuff on craft and stuff on business but we’ve also got something new–stuff on writers’ conferences–and some just-for-fun...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, August 28 and 29, 2012
Welcome to post #201 on the Cochise Writers blog! Today we have everything from scenes to themes in our craft entries and several posts on what might be called the down sides of desperation for fame...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, August 30 and 31, 2012
Maybe it’s because a long weekend’s coming up, at least here in the US, that there wasn’t a lot out there on the blogosphere that really jumped out at me yesterday and today. That means a light...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 1-3, 2012
Happy Monday, everyone. Today is Labor Day in the U.S., a day on which governments (generally–police, fire, and the military excepted) stop laboring in honor of labor unions who represent a smaller...
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Critique Technique, Part 30—Too Many Words, or Too Few
In the movie My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl turned high-society woman of charm and mystery, sings to her would-be boyfriend, “Words, words, words, I’m so sick of words…” For...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 4 and 5, 2012
Wednesday already! How did that happen? Putting up that Critique Technique post yesterday must have thrown me off. Well, anyway, lots of terrific stuff to get to, so no more stalling! As usually, we’ll...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 6 and 7, 2012
Even though last weekend was a three-day weekend here in the U.S., it seems like it’s this weekend that my favorite bloggers are getting ready to take off for early. So, there’s not a lot of great...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 8-10, 2012
Whoo-ee, it’s been a busy weekend and Monday out there in writer/blogger-land. Lots to share with you, so let’s get right to it. On the pure craft side there’s really only one post, Harvey Stanbrough’s...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 11 and 12, 2012
I have to start today’s post with an announcement: Great Stuff and Critique Technique will be going on a short hiatus. Later in the week I’m off for a non-writing conference and expect not to have the...
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Just Say No
Longtime creative writing instructor Leslie Clark will be retiring soon, and no one more deserves the time to do her own writing and sleep in on Monday mornings. Recently, we talked about her plans. I...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 14-24, 2012
Just flew back from Washington, DC, and boy are my arms tired. Ba-dum-bum-ching. Thanks so much. I’ll be here all week. But seriously, it IS good to be back in the Great Stuff saddle. And contrary to...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 14-24 bonus edition
As they say on TV, we’re back, and time to finish getting caught up with the great stuff that came out during my 10 day hiatus. Let’s start to finish with a few more posts on CRAFT Adverbs. We’re told...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 25 and 26, 2012
Ahhh, it’s good to be back on the regular schedule. (And no snide comments, please, about those TV ads having to do with another kind of” regularity.” ) Let’s start with a few pieces CRAFT Jordyn...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 27 and 28, 2012
I have just a few pieces for you today, so let’s get right to them. CRAFT Ken Myers guest posts on KM Weiland’s (@KMWeiland) WORDplay blog about the 5 Characters Every Writer Needs to Master. The first...
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Critique Technique, Part 31—The Wrong Words
Authors can and do go wrong with their word choices, or use words the wrong way. This isn’t just a case of not understanding Mark Twain’s illustration of the difference between the right word and the...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, September 29-October 1, 2012
Lots of Great Stuff showed up over the weekend, so let’s get right to it. CRAFT One of the on-going problems I see with the new writers in my writers’ group is punctuation. This isn’t a “kids today...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, October 2 and 3, 2012
LOTS of stuff on craft, the last couple of days, plus some keepers on The Writing Life. Off we go… CRAFT Robert Bruce (@robertbruce76) of 101 Books uncovered a 1955 interview Ralph Ellison did with The...
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Great Stuff on the Writers’ Blogs, October 4 and 5, 2012
Quite a variety of great stuff today, so let’s jump right in. CRAFT Let’s begin with beginnings. Robert Bruce (@robertbruce76) is currently reviewing Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man on 101 Books. One...
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