Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ OK, a free blog topic! So, is it really true? I really don’t have to write more about horror, Halloween, and other ghouly stuff? (At least not for another year!) But I have gotten so used to this place… writing about stuff I haven’t…
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Let the fruit throwing begin!
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ A great title… it bears so little resemblence to my post this week, but it is a colourful idea… (thanks C.J.) Watermellon is big here in Greece and it is such a bright colour! Well, what would the alternative have been? A more mundane “FIVE…
The Mandarin Segment…
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Something completely different? OK, so, out of all the elements that make up a good story – which would I tell a novice they should take the time to study up on? You’re asking me? Really? English usage? Strike one – C.J. gone done that…
I Think, Therefore I am Not Blocked…
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Ok. Now let me see… it’s, what? 22:30? (…so the little digital time piece in the corner of my Windows 7 task-bar tells me). That is… precisely… one hour and thirty minutes within which I have this target to complete a post on writer’s block!…
Yellow Beehives, Lipstick Teeth & Favorite Authors
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Today, I am joined by my guest, Kate Porelli. One of the joys I have found since beginning to write fiction in earnest, and making that writing available on the internet, is coming to know a whole new bunch of exciting and interesting people, some…
Influence? Quelle influence?
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ A personal problem…? OK, so here I am, trying to conceptualise my approach for this article on how my various hobbies and pastimes might influence my writing and… well, not for the first time on this Blog, I am struggling! I do things. I don’t…
Caro Clarke: Can she be smart and still in peril?
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Nine Don’ts when writing about a female protagonist Today, we are joined by my guest, Caro Clarke. Caro is a Canadian, born in Ontario. She spent her childhood in various oil towns from Alaska to Newfoundland, but eventually her family settled in Calgary, Alberta. Caro…
Handy hint #1 – the lighter side of self-publishing or…
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Self publishing 101: Economics So, after refusing to accept rejection – or, rather, ‘…getting fed up of waiting for an agent to pick up my work with anything more than a resigned shrug and the comment “what’s this?” to his assistant, late on a Friday…
Spring Time and Thoughts Turn to Plotting
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Today we have the first post from our newest member, David Sartof! We’d been looking for a male mystery writer for a few weeks now, and C.J. met David on a Facebook group for authors. He wrote intriguingly, his novel sounded interesting, and he seemed…