Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers

Here’s the photo prompt for this week’s Friday Fictioneer’s: Why only 100 Words 100-words isn’t a *rule* and some of us write more than that. My goal is to have The Friday Fictioneers use 100-word stories as an exercise in choosing concise phrases and strong verbs. It’s an excellent way to show your stuff to [...]

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Tuesday Share: Debra Marrs, Editor and Coach for Writers

*** Intro: I’d met Debra via Twitter a few weeks back when she mentioned the concept of finding 100 pre-sales for my book before even approaching editors or agents. This was during a chat with agents on Twitter, and some of the agents agreed. Have heart, though. Some didn’t think it mattered ahead of time [...]

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Shaking things up

Just shaking things up a little bit with my blogging schedule. Tuesdays and Thursdays will have a new focus on my blog. Tuesday Share Tuesdays will become the day I invite other writers to tell me their stories. How they started, where they are and hope to get. If already published, what books they have [...]

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Writerly Business Plan – Twitter as a Tool

This post is part of my series on my Writerly Business Plan. Here are the first 4 parts and the other information that goes with the Plan: Introduction The Goal Statement Products and Ideas Marketing Tools – the Blog and a guest post from David Rozansky on Bookkeeping for Writers and some guest posts from [...]

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100-words #FlashFriday Whoo-hooo! Go #Fictioneers!

This week’s story is from Eli’s POV and ties in with the story from a couple weeks ago for the mushroom prompt. I’m looking forward to reading your stories this week. We have more members than ever before, so it is taking longer than Friday evening to get through them all. Sometimes it is taking [...]

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Guest: Laura Schultz, author, reviewer and co-founder of Writer’s Etc.

Madison, I am honored today to share my writing journey with your viewers and for me it has been the ride of a lifetime. I had always wanted to write and had been writing poetry since I was a child but I had little confidence in my ability to do it professionally. As it were, [...]

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Marketing post for writerly business – twitter

Oops. Didn’t mean to hit Publish on that one yet. That’s not until Sunday, and it’s only half baked!  

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Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers

Here’s the photo prompt for this week’s Friday Fictioneer’s. Why only 100 Words 100-words isn’t a *rule* and some of us write more than that. My goal is to have The Friday Fictioneers use 100-word stories as an exercise in choosing concise phrases and strong verbs. It’s an excellent way to show your stuff to [...]

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Dismay, frustration and … frustration!

I am so dismayed. Yesterday I saw a blurb about a new show coming out on SyFy channel that sounds very similar to the same concept I’m working with in my novel. Has that ever happened to you? I’ve practically cloistered myself to keep other ideas from influencing me and then I find out that [...]

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Writerly Goal Check

This week looks a lot like last week. One of my submissions came back rejected so that one is going to be added to the file of those I want to examine for rewrite potential. Those are the ones I’ll keep as my future story collections if they look good after I’ve gone over them [...]

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