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by Lev Raphael I’m just back from reading from my memoir/travelogue My Germany in Windsor, Ontario. I was at a fundraising event for BookFest Windsor and people asking me to sign books afterwards said they enjoyed it especially because most authors read from their books so badly. I tend to avoid author readings […] via 5… Continue reading 5 Things Not to Do at Your Book Reading — A Writer’s Path

by ARHuelsenbeck When I resigned from my teaching job four years ago, I resolved to do things around the house that I hadn’t had time for while I was working, like tackling our “garage of doom.” Our house, built in 1979, was showing its age, and our heavy wooden garage door looked shabby […] via How… Continue reading How to Maintain Your Motivation on a Large Writing Project — A Writer’s Path

by Steven Capps Let’s discuss plotting. Not the evil, “let’s take over the world” kind, though I guess that does fit. I’m talking about the events that create a story. Specifically, I’m talking about the events that create my stories and how I go about developing them. via Using Short Stories to Plot a Rough Draft… Continue reading Using Short Stories to Plot a Rough Draft — A Writer’s Path

I share some lighthearted word games on CFT this week. Give them a go! I finally get around to watching The Blues Brothers (and loved it). I look at how I use word games to wind down with and I reflect on what cut and paste meant in the old days of typewriters! There are… Continue reading Fun With Words — Allison Symes: Collected Works

There are affiliate links in here. I get a small commission if you purchase through them at no extra cost to you. It’s no secret that I love Latin America. Mexico, Central America, South America, I’m a fan of it all. It’s my favorite region to travel in and I can’t wait to go back […]… Continue reading 45 Books Set In Mexico That Will Have You Dreaming Of It Tonight — Red Around the World

Is passive voice off-limits, or are there times when it’s necessary? via Should I ever use passive voice in writing? — Hyperbolit

You will learn give them enough know-how and the courage various other their first attempt. It can be shown in your press release and inside your online campaigns. You may have read a novel or two before you developed a pastime in writing your own novel. As you go through these books you may have […]… Continue reading Getting There – Five Tips For Meeting Your Writing Goals — light novel web

By Farhang Jahanpour, Lecture delivered at GCGI Conference, 31 August 2014 The prolific author, novelist and historian, A. N. Wilson, who originally studied theology at Oxford, later on left the church and declared himself an atheist, and again in an article on 11 April 2009 in Daily Mail announced his conversion to Christianity, in a […]… Continue reading Mystical Legacy, An Antidote to Fanaticism — F Jahanpour

Welcome back to my last post of the month for #IndieApril! It’s been great to be able to talk about just a handful of the amazing indie authors present in the writing community whom I’ve gotten to know, and whose work is so good it’s honestly a lot better than many of the trade paperbacks […]… Continue reading #IndieApril Reads: Getting Real — Kyle Robertson, Novelist

If the guy who creates New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s slide decks were a figure of speech, he’d be a metaphor. I love a good metaphor in story for the way it describes something else in concrete terms. The Bard was a master, and since he (might have) celebrated a birthday this week, we begin […]… Continue reading What engaging story can’t use a metaphor or two? — Monica Lee