This week’s writerly update is going to be short and sweet as I only worked on two of my WIPs. I am a member of the Romance Writers of Australia, and every June they have a 50k in 30 days challenge. I’ve never done a challenge like it before; I’ve never managed to do Nano … More A Writerly Update 34.
Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s writerly update. This week my main focus was polishing a flash fiction piece I had been working on so I could send it to the comp I wanted to enter. Polished and sent. Fingers crossed. One of my goals this week was to outline ten chapters of Rift, … More A Writerly Update 33.
Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s writerly update. Unfortunately I was unable to write for the first three days of this week, but I did get some writing done on the rest of the days. I did a first draft of a picture book that I feel has real potential. I knocked out a … More A Writerly Update 32.
Welcome to part two of my recap of the Penguin Random House National Book Bloggers Forum which was held in Sydney on May 20th. Here is a list of the bloggers that attended. You should check them out and discover some amazing Aussie blogs. Interestingly, there was only one male blogger among us. In part … More Recap: Penguin Random House National Book Bloggers Forum 2014 Part Two #NBBF14
I was one of the lucky book bloggers chosen to attend the first ever Penguin Random House National Book Bloggers Forum. It was such an amazing day and I am so glad I was a part of it. They are looking to do another one next year, maybe even in another city (This one was … More Recap: The Penguin Random House National Book Bloggers Forum 2014 Part One #NBBF14
Hi everyone, welcome to this week’s writerly update. It’s been a short story week for me this week. On Monday I got inspired to write a fantasy short story and sat down and wrote 14 A4 pages by hand. I’m really getting into this writing by hand thing. I wrote more of it on Tuesday … More A Writerly Update 31.
Hi Everyone, I haven’t written as much as I’ve wanted lately. The first half of the week I hardly wrote, I don’t even know what happened, I think it was just bad time management. I did post a short story on the blog though, which I haven’t done in forever. YA Book Lover, is a … More A Writerly Update 30.
Megan came out of the book store with four books tucked under her arm and an empty wallet. She shouldn’t really have bought the last one. Okay, she really shouldn’t have bought more than one, but she couldn’t help it, there were just too many good books. Why did they always have to come out … More YA Book Lover: A Short Story.
I subscribe to the Nelson Literary Agency newsletter. In the recent newletter I received, Kristin Nelson shared the top culprits for why an agent stops reading a submission. Kristin says if you say yes to any of the following questions it’s time for a revision! 1) Does your opening chapter begin with action, but then … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Top Reasons Agents Stop Reading Submissions.
Synopsis from Goodreads: Full of both inspirational and practical advice, Writing Children’s Fiction: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion is an essential guide to writing for some of the most difficult and demanding readers of all: children and young people. Part 1 explores the nature, history and challenges of children’s literature, and the amazing variety of … More Review: Writing Children’s Fiction By Yvonne Coppard and Linda Newberry.
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