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of Altered States Release and Round Robin of Change
Last Monday saw the release of the first edition of the of Altered States anthology series and my fellow contributors and I are celebrating by sending a series of guest posts out into the world. Similar to the Round Robin …
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Scribbles Blog Hop
Today is National Show Your Journal Day! Didn’t you know? I’m participating in the Scribbles Blog Hop. Do you have a journal? Do you write in a journal? Do you write in someone else’s journal? Or do you just have …
How I Wrote a Novel In A Day
Last Saturday, the 15th of October, 2011, I participated in a ‘Novel In A Day’ project. The idea is simple; a group of writers get together (mostly virtually) over the course of 24 hours and write a book. We were …
About Inspiration
For once I give writing advice from experience. Most of the time the content here is reposted articles written by others that I find around the internet. Blog posts that I like. Blog posts that I think have some value …
The Other Side of the Story: To Edit Or Not To Edit
Janice Hardy has a post about work-in-progress editing over at The Other Side of the Story. From the post; At some point during your first draft, you’re bound to ask yourself if you should keep going or start editing. (…) …
Grammar Divas: ‘Excuse Me, Is That Your Participle Dangling?’
Grammar Divas has a great post on incorrect use of participles, or as they like to call them dangling participles. So what’s a participle again? A participle is a verb form that no longer functions as a verb but instead …
Muphry’s Law
StereoDax led me to the Canberra Society of Editors who postulated Muphry’s Law. It was first published in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s internal bulletin. Reposted from their website: ‘Muphry’s Law is the editorial application of the better-known …
Narrative-Collective Assimilation
Today another writing-science crossover post. I like these. They make me smile. Livia Blackburne has a great analysis of an article by psychologists Shira Gabriel and Ariana Young. They have done research on what they call narrative-collective assimilation, which is …
xkcd–Delivery Notification
Today’s writing-related post is admittedly extremely loosely related to writing, but every now and again I just have to feature a xkcd comic. All Rights Reserved xkcd. (The hoover-over comments are always the best, so click the comic to go …
Tony Parsons–Heathrow Airport Writer In Residence
Tony Parsons, who started his career as a music journalist but is now primarily known as a novelist and columnist, is spending a week as the Writer In Residence at Heathrow airport. The post was Alain de Botton’s two years …
