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McSweeney's PublishingAuthor of 38 books including Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Listssee similar authors
Joel DerfnerAuthor of 18 books including Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Cleansee similar authors- Jan Lars JensenAuthor of 8 books including Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literaturesee similar authors
Laurie NotaroAuthor of 17 books including The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Lifesee similar authors
Bill BrysonAuthor of 51 books including A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailsee similar authors
Gary KristAuthor of 10 books including Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleanssee similar authors
Dan SavageAuthor of 16 books including The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnantsee similar authors
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Humorous Authors
Friday, February 5, 2016
“It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.” — Isaac Asimov
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
How to describe sounds
I came across a site that helps writers describe sound.
https://wordobject.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/words-commonly-used-to-describe-sounds/
“A writer's natural voice comes from practice, from writing a lot, and trusting that you have something to say.” — Harriet Rubin, former Doubleday editor
Monday, February 1, 2016
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Sacrifice
Is it selfish to want good for someone else?
Is it utter selfishness to believe someone deserves better than you?
Sacrifice is selfishness in itself.
By humbling yourself,
You're trying to make yourself feel good.
Sometimes it works.
Monday, January 18, 2016
Best list of Hip Hop Choreography
Find the best list of Hip Hop Choreography Below:
Ted-talk on Descriptions
How to write great descriptions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSoRzTtwgP4
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Best Sex and the City Line
This line was the greatest line in the series Sex and the City
Friday, January 15, 2016
Best audio narrators
I came across a site with some of the best audio narrators I ever heard. Check it out by clicking on their names under their pictures on the site below:
http://www.audible.com/int/Featured_Narrators
http://www.audible.com/int/Featured_Narrators
Monday, January 11, 2016
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Improv Comedy prompt
Improv Comedy did a prompt on the phrase "Sand gets in your (blank)
It went something like this: Sand gets in your hair, your hair gets in your face, your face gets in other people's faces, their faces get mad. Mad makes people want to shout, shouting starts a protest, protesting starts violence, violence gets you kicked out of candy stores. Getting kicked out of candy stores makes you have headaches. Headaches can't be relieved by Midol. Midol is for Crampy Ladies. Crampy ladies look bloated. Bloated makes your face look puffy. Puffy is the worst name for a rapper. Rapper's nicknames should be names like Wilma and Fred. Wilma and Fred are my next door neighbors. My neighbors don't own the Bedrock. The Bedrock is a hard place. Getting in a hard place causes people to write prompts called:
Sand gets in your (blank).
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Buy used E-books
I heard that Amazon was getting a patent to sell used e-books but I wanted to figure out if there is another site that sells used e-books. When I came across this site:
Some popular books are sold as low as $1.00
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Where to find you perfect book cover
http://www.goonwrite.com
http://www.vividcovers.com
http://fantasiafrogdesigns.wordpress.com/premade-bookcovers
http://www.romancenovelcovers.com
http://ebookindiecovers.com **this one has sales/clearance at $12**
http://goonwrite.com
http://indiebookcovers.blogspot.com
http://mycoverart.com/premade-designs
http://www.bookcoversale.com
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Listen to Emergency Dispatch
I'm doing some research on emergency dispatchers and I came across this site that allows you to listen to live police, Fire, Ems, Aviation and Rail Audio Feeds throughout the United States at the site below:
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Listen to your favorite writer give advice on writing
I came across this site some of the best writers ever offer their advice on Creative Writing.
Writers like Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, John Updike, Carlos Fuentes, Norman Mailer, Wallace Stegner, and,many others.
http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/toni_morrison_nora_ephron_offer_advice_in_free_creative_writingclass.html
Writers like Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, John Updike, Carlos Fuentes, Norman Mailer, Wallace Stegner, and,many others.
http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/toni_morrison_nora_ephron_offer_advice_in_free_creative_writingclass.html
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Book Blogger helps sell your book
http://bookbloggerlist.com/ This site will post your blog and books that you have published in exchange for reviews. But you have to stay active on their site.
How to sell your book on Amazon.
One idea of how to sell your book on Amazon.
Give your book in exchange for a review.Not only will that stack up your reviews but will help with publicity.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Listen to poetry
http://www.rattle.com/poetry/bearer-of-the-light-by-ariane-branigan/
This is a great site for contemporary poetry postings. It even has audio for some poems.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Find a place to publish your work
Here is a couple of places that help you find a place to publish your work. Although I'm sure there's a thousand more where these few came from.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Podcasts I need to listen to
strange stories and how our minds work
and
Criminal, short twenty minute stories .
and finally -
LoveandRadio
food geek show -
welcome to night vale-name of podcast series at
crime stories podcast
http://thisiscriminal.com/
Read any book
I like this readanybook.com site. Its not exactly a kindle book where you could thumb easily through the book but it does give you a personal library without having to login or check out.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Awesome site if you are writing a query letter for publication
This is a site for writing a great query letter: http://queryshark.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Are you writing a paper for school?
This site can help with novel writing or even if your writing a paper for school. There's tons of writers on this site that can help critique your writing.
scribophile.com
scribophile.com
Publish your writing
A place for where Writers can submit their writing:contests, blogs, publications
http://www.placesforwriters.com/
http://www.placesforwriters.com/
If you use google docs for writing
If you use google docs for writing, you can track your word count by adding this feature called track my words. The link is below.
This can help if you're shooting for writing that 50,000 word novel or if you just want to keep track of writing goals.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/track-my-words/cmenndbnbfkcdefgjpmdiejjhillbnlc?hl=en
This can help if you're shooting for writing that 50,000 word novel or if you just want to keep track of writing goals.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/track-my-words/cmenndbnbfkcdefgjpmdiejjhillbnlc?hl=en
Ever wondered what your writing sounds like?
This is a great site to help listen to your writing.
Maybe you have grammar errors that you can't tell from reading your writing and you want to listen to your work before publishing. Here is a great site:
http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.html
or
Google translate works even better for longer texts if you don't want to download anything.
https://translate.google.com/
Maybe you have grammar errors that you can't tell from reading your writing and you want to listen to your work before publishing. Here is a great site:
http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.html
or
Google translate works even better for longer texts if you don't want to download anything.
https://translate.google.com/
Organize your writing
I love this site I found that helps with organizing your writing by Melissa Donovan
http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips/writing-tips-getting-and-staying-organized#more-48
I’ve struggled with how to organize my electronic writing folder. For some reason, printed materials are easier to group and label. By using subfolders, I’ve been able to create navigable directories that make it easy to find anything and everything I’ve written.
Here are the sub-directories I’ve created in my “Writing” folder:
Tell me, how do you keep your writing files organized? Share your organizational writing tips in the comments!
http://www.writingforward.com/writing-tips/writing-tips-getting-and-staying-organized#more-48
I’ve struggled with how to organize my electronic writing folder. For some reason, printed materials are easier to group and label. By using subfolders, I’ve been able to create navigable directories that make it easy to find anything and everything I’ve written.
Here are the sub-directories I’ve created in my “Writing” folder:
- Notes and Ideas: Notes on the craft of writing and random ideas that don’t fit anywhere else.
- Templates and worksheets: Blank character sketches or world-building worksheets as well as story-writing guides, like the Hero’s Journey.
- Completed Works: Pieces that are ready to be sent out or published.
- In Progress: anything that is not polished, with the following sub-folders:
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Non-fiction
- Scripts
- Journals and Freewrites: pretty self-explanatory.
- Feedback: feedback and critiques that I have given and received.
- Submissions: copies of work that I’ve submitted along with a spreadsheet for tracking submissions.
- Research for Writing Projects: information that I’ve found online and have saved because I think it might come in handy someday for one of my projects. Now that I use Evernote to clip material from the web, this folder has become an archive.
Tell me, how do you keep your writing files organized? Share your organizational writing tips in the comments!
Saturday, December 5, 2015
I was thinking apricot-y
This is chit chat I overheard from three women talking to one another.
Well hello! A younger woman said enthusiastically, I thought she was the witch from the Wizard of OZ. She approached an older
woman selling crafts at a coffee shop. (They clearly knew each other.)
Well, Hi Sarah!
“This is Deena.” The
younger woman said, “The woman I told you about. She does everything, ain’t
that right Deena?”
Yes. I work at Northwest, I am a publicist and a writer, and I am a small business owner.
What else am I? Said the older woman to the younger.
You’re a cancer survivor.
Yes, then there’s that.
By the way I love your hair Deena. And it’s Curly.
What color would you say it is?
I was thinking apricot-y.
“Oh, and did I tell you?
I’m getting married this year!” Exclaimed the older women, “We’re going to
have a shin-dig across the border in Mexico.”
Oh really, my son’s seeing a girl, and they met in
Mexico. They live outside Montreal, can‘t
think of the name. Cornwell, I think it is.
The two women stood, not able to sit, not sure when the
older woman was going to finish the introduction portion of the conversation; the
time when most people would take theirs seats.
The woman not related to the soon to be married individual began looking
around anxiously, no doubt wandering if it was time to sit or move on to the
business of buying crafts.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Writer's Tips
Writer’s tips
- Say the “Writers dance” when you want to describe how the writer uses good word play.
- Is there enough emotion in your piece? Highlight emotion with a highlighter. Also, it's good to know what the character’s pain is; for each character, and what their struggling against.
- Be careful with characters delving out money from out of no where, especially if its cash.
- Note why a writer recollects on another character over and over again like their mother, question whether this is necessary.
- Be careful if something is supposed to be secret, if it’s secret it’s secret, there’s no gray area as far as who knows and who does not. For example If there in a cubicle and their mindful of who is listening, and then later in the scene their not mindful it doesn’t make sense.
- A call came in from someone who claimed they witnessed it- a line like this brings you farther way from the narrator when you don’t indicate who, exactly, the call was from.
- Going back and forth between characters needs to be real tight.
- The writer Checkov, is good at having his characters do exchanges, and one person is not really listening as another character says some pretty random things. Note that its not always important in dialogue to have a character understand exactly what the other character is saying.
- He was no where near tickled about the precipitation. This sentence doesn’t show the emotion of the character. Be careful with difficulty with negatives like the word NO.
- Prepositions are relationships between objects, too many prepositions are too many relationships that the reader has to keep track of, and too many prepostions indicate a run-on sentence.
- Parenthesis listed after a real long aside can have readers lose track of what the parathensis are used for.
- The beginning gets us to ask a question in short story, and the ending should answer that question. Choose one theme and run with it, like the sea, or a song, that has to run throughout the course of the story, don’t have too many themes.
- Be careful of professions and hobbies and what those individuals can do. Scuba divers can’t dive far, so if you’re talking about diving to the bottom of the ocean you might use but a deep sea can.
- For generalizations, careful how you phrase things in dialogue, to make it seem that this is what the character thinks and not the writer.
- Good to use reflections. Especially when your characters feel guilt.
- Think about the significance of a scene, and how much you lead into it.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Why I need to write a character similar to Harry Potter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcBJEXnouU0
I like this free lance editor's talk (in the above link)on what needs to be included in your novel writing. She talks about how you shouldn't have your character complain so much. Yes, there will be hardships but the character needs to seem like their rising above them. Similar to Harry Potter, we know he was an orphan but he takes his life in stride and comes off as fearless, honest and a good friend.
In the beginning of the novel don't have your character waking up from a dream or daydreaming. Don't have your character be sitting around and thinking about things instead of engaging in conflict.
I like this free lance editor's talk (in the above link)on what needs to be included in your novel writing. She talks about how you shouldn't have your character complain so much. Yes, there will be hardships but the character needs to seem like their rising above them. Similar to Harry Potter, we know he was an orphan but he takes his life in stride and comes off as fearless, honest and a good friend.
In the beginning of the novel don't have your character waking up from a dream or daydreaming. Don't have your character be sitting around and thinking about things instead of engaging in conflict.
Monday, November 23, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
What I'm reading Now
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand. I like this novel because its only my second exposure to life in Nantucket. The setting alone will make you wish you lived there. But I think the characters are people you can follow. Hilderbrand uses each chapter for each character tell their side of the story. This idea is not unique entirely, but given the fact that the children have their own chapters as well gives great perspective of the underlining story. I right away began to adopt my favorite characters based on my own personality. For example, I like hope, because she's shy and she she's underestimated and undervalued by her twin. How many times have I felt the same way as that character?
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Monday, November 2, 2015
What I'm reading Now
I'm reading the Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarity. I like the way the novel has you asking some pretty intense questions. Who did it? What Would I do in the same situation. What stood out for me was the setting of Sidney, Australia. It wasn't presumptuous like California. It didn't shriek material world or extreme competition. I think the characters give readers a perspective about motherhood that they may have not thought of before. Things like researching your child's project and learning something you never knew. Or being an extremely organized mother and the power that can come from that. It gives a reader a lot to think about besides just being carried away by the plot.
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