Today's post about how Twitter can actually help you finish your book is from award-winning author A.B. Funkhauser, whom coincidently I met on Twitter! Finish that WIP: A friend recently asked me to fly to England and finish his work in progress (WIP). He was kidding, of course. I had just typed “The End” on a manuscript that had joyously taken up fifteen months of my life, and somewhere … [Read more...]
Wading into Writing for Children
It began with a Ghost Crab Incident On a family vacation last summer, my daughter took my then 8-year old granddaughter and 3-year old grandson to the beach after dusk to look for Atlantic ghost crabs (they're most active in the evening). Dozens of them were skittering around, and it was fun watching them until a large crab startled Oliver by running across the top of his shoe. That was it. From … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Karen W. Pullen
What: What compels me to write? Maybe it’s in my DNA, like my pointy nose and near-sightedness. My new book, Cold Heart, is dedicated thus: “To my mother, Juanita H Williams, who would’ve liked it.” She was a journalism major at the University of Kentucky for two years until she married my dad and took a ten-year break from her studies to produce four children. She went back to school for a … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Karla Huston
What: I write poetry; I write poetry reviews. I’ve committed acts of fiction but decided long ago that writing poetry was more fun, more satisfying than writing a 20-or-30-page story. I have no desire to write a novel. I can’t imagine extending a story for 400 pages. Those characters totally out of my control! But that’s the point, I guess, and how good novels are written. Characters whisper in … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Herta Feely
What: I was working on my second novel (In Search of Che) and had reached page 100 when the story came to a screeching halt. I felt like a person trekking through a forest who’s lost sight of the trail. You look everywhere, but alas it’s gone. The muse had forsaken me. But, likewise, one never knows when inspiration will strike or how or why. On January 10, 2008, I ran across an article in the … [Read more...]
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