Okay…so the other night in my incessant surfing and reading and absorbing and visiting, while trying to clarify the difference between a Critique Partner and a Beta Reader (seems like the same thing at different points in revision), I stumbled across Lynda R. Young’s fantastic blog. Googling “Critique Partners,” lo and behold if she didn’t pop up … More This Make Believe Book Launch Is For Real!
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand October 11th seems like a lifetime ago — a bygone era, the days of yore. A once upon a time when I still tread water and chased windmills on the same blog, before the split and … More I’d Like to Thank the Academy…
Prospector, by ToOliver2, Flickr NaNoWri Month is drawing to a close and as luck would have it, a blog hop on Works-In-Progress fell into my lap just in time to brag about Monty. To be sure, over the course of my NaNo ramblings this month you’ve seen me write about the antics of Gus Sanchez, of … More Blog Hop: The Next Big Thing
Shining a lighton a great event and idea! God bless the selfless acts of others, like Julie Luek from A Thought Grows. Julie was the first writing buddy I made when coming onto the cyberscene, and it’s been a treat to travel on this journey together. In her usual creative fashion, she took a worthwhile cause … More Writers for Readers
“My advice is…really the same for anybody writing any kind of book…but I guess it’s more for fiction writers like myself. It’s really basically this: WRITE.” – Anne Rice Roxanne Ravenel writes a weekly craft column called Storyteller Saturdays over on her site, Mindful Banter, in which she posts insightful interviews and observations of some of the … More WRITE ON!
M.L. Swift, Writer 