An Aussie Christian who enjoys reading, getting out in nature and likes to write.
Release Date: August 1st 2014. Publisher: Random House Australia. Source: From publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis from Random House Website: This road trip will have earth-shattering consequences . . . Twins Justine and Perry are about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime in the Pacific Northwest. It’s … More Review: Are You Seeing Me? By Darren Groth.
The thing about adverbs is that you should use them sparingly, though many writers will probably tell you not to use them at all. Stephen King is famously quoted as saying, ‘The road to hell is paved with adverbs.’ Adverbs, for those scratching your head, are the words that end in -ly. You can see … More Writing Tip Wednesday: The Thing About Adverbs.
Entries are now closed and the winner of my Hidden giveaway has been chosen using Random.org. The lucky winner of one paperback copy of Hidden is… Lisa Fleetwood (Welcome To My Library.) I have contacted Lisa via Twitter. Thank you so much to everyone who entered, I am sorry I couldn’t give you all a … More And The Winner Is…
Book Delights is a feature on my blog where I share with you all the books I purchased/received in the previous month. I was on a self imposed book buying ban in July and am pleased to announce that I made it through twenty nine days without buying a book. I cracked and bought one … More Book Delights (3)
Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s writerly update. I have had an odd week, writing wise, this week. For most of the week, I didn’t really feel like writing. For those of you who regularly read this update, you know that it usually kills me to go days without writing, so to go days without … More A Writerly Update 42.
Release Date: May 21st 2014. Publisher: Black Dog Books. Source: From Walker Books Australia in exchange for an honest review. #It is the 12th book I have read for the Australian Women Writers challenge. Synopsis from Goodreads: “Don’t let her know you’re scared,” Alexander’s father had said to him the first time Alexander had sat on … More Review: Alexander Altmann A10567 #aww2014.
Pub(lishing) Crawl is a great source of writing advice from various writers. I was reading an article on there today by Kat Zhang where she shared how she revises. She had some great tips so I thought I would share it with you. She confesses that her first drafts are always terrible. (So are mine, … More Writing Tip Wednesday: The Art Of Revision.
This week’s update is going to be short and sweet. I only worked on my novella this week and wrote 7000 words. I am really happy with what I’ve written so far. I plotted it out first, which I don’t usually do, and am finding it is easier to write because I don’t have to … More A Writerly Update 41.
When writing, it is important to show your readers what is happening rather than tell them. It’s a golden rule of writing. There is one area of showing vs. telling in writing that I hadn’t really thought about, though, and that’s character internalization. I was reading a post on Janice Hardy’s blog that talked about … More Writing Tip Wednesday: On Showing Or Telling And Internalization?
Hi Everyone, The good news is that the kids were back at school this week. The bad news is that I didn’t get much writing done. Not from lack of time. I was going well the first few days. I wrote, edited and sent a short story away to an anthology that was about to … More A Writerly Update 40.
Rochelle L. Sharpe 