Bookmarking this. Commas are my weakness! I put them boys everywhere. In need of proper comma usage in my life 😦 lol
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It’s a jungle out there – watch out for the vanity presses #wwwblogs #amwriting #selfpublishing
Nice reminder. Dear Writers, do your research. It’s free and easy to upload a file to Amazon. If you must pay, read the contract carefully and know what you’re getting.
3 Tips To Keep Your Reader READING: Cliffhanger Endings
I enjoyed this! Excellent lesson. I want to write now lol.
Using my unreleased manuscript An Angel On Her Shoulder, I am showing you my techniques for reworking a story into a more readable, more enjoyable piece. It’s 45+ lessons in about 45 days. (To start at Chapter 1, click HERE.)
To view it best, bring up the two versions in different windows and view them side by side to see what was changed.
Then give me your thoughts in the comment section.
Cliffhangers
Most of the time we as writers get a scene completed and we say, “That’s enough, I’ll stop writing and end the chapter here.” We solved one of the mini hurdles. Whew! Time for a drink.
But
If we give readers that feeling of something being resolved, THEY may stop and go have a drink – and never pick our book up again!
Your audience will probably keep reading if the story is…
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Yecheilyah’s Book Reviews – The House on Candlewick Lane by Amy M. Reade
Title: The House on Candlewick Lane
Author: Amy M. Reade
Print Length: 263 pages
Publisher: Lyrical Underground (February 7, 2017)
Publication Date: February 7, 2017
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Language: English
ASIN: B01FBZXR3K
When Dr. Greer Dobbins receives a call from her daughter’s school to confirm that her little girl is out, she is surprised. Ellie should have been in school.
Ellie is missing, and Greer could experience no greater agony. Having been abducted by her ex-husband Neil, Ellie has been taken by her own father. A marriage that fell apart over Neil’s gambling addiction, there’s no telling where he’s taken, Ellie. Distraught, Dr. Dobbins is at her wit’s end as she and the police try to piece together the details of the disappearance.
They discover a man is spotted on an airport security video in Albany, New York, holding the hand of a little boy. The man’s face is concealed, but the little boy turns around and faces the camera. The little boy is Ellie. Greer is taken aback. Neil has cut their daughter’s hair and dressed her in boys’ clothes.
Unfortunately for this professor, things do not get better. Having already sugar-coated the divorce details to the police, Greer must inform them that neither she nor Neil is from the United States. In providing information about Neil’s parents and siblings, she reveals that she and Neil are both from Scotland. At this point, after discovering that both she and her daughter’s passports are missing, it is clear that Neil is headed home.
After a frantic attempt at boarding a plane without a passport and going through several airport personnel to rectify the situation, Greer heads to Edinburgh, Scotland, searching for her daughter. On the plane, she meets James, and a casual conversation sparks the beginning of a relationship and a long search ahead. We learn more about Neil and Greer’s relationship, her strained relationship with her former parents-in-law, and other secrets the city holds.
I enjoyed how the author didn’t allow the book to end until all the questions were answered. I love this in a good novel: everything is resolved before the book end and we have a solid and satisfying conclusion.
Plot Movement / Strength: 4/5
Entertainment Factor: 3/5
Characterization: 4/5
Authenticity / Believable: 3/5
Thought Provoking: 3/5
Overall Rating: 3 / 5 stars
The House on Candlewick Lane is available now on Amazon.
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Website: www.amymreade.com
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Owning Your Writing Craft
Like I always say, take some time to enjoy the journey. Post quote: “Look at where you started and where you are now. Be proud of the distance you’ve traveled and how much you’ve accomplished, so far.”
by Tonya R. Moore
There’s all this hubbub floating around out there lately, conflicting theories of all the DOs and DON’Ts of what it takes to be or become a successful author.
Some time ago, I saw some Perpetual Writing Advice Giver actually tweet that if you’re a writer promoting your work and you don’t have this many (double digit) thousand followers on Twitter, you’re simply not trying hard enough. To add insult to offense, said party didn’t even have a half of that “strongly suggested” following.
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No Punctuation
Dear Love,
your voice is the sound of pages
I’ve been waiting to read my entire life
like run on sentences
in a book too perfect to end
tell me
how do you shackle power to punctuation
If I could
I would end this poem with a period
or place a comma in the places I need
to catch my breath
but you
will only rush to the tips of my fingers
you see love
will only leak
from the pores in my skin
like the sounds of many waters
flooding its way from Noah’s Ark
you shelter me
like an infant
carefully encased in its mother’s womb
before language existed
before there was ever a need of capital letters
dear captain
you chose us
before there was a thing called history
sucking at its mother’s breast
we are nurtured by the past
to understand the future
Dear Love,
you are the answer to every question
and the sound of your mercy
is the only thing worth setting my alarm clock to
so I’ve chosen to reverence you this way
with outstretched pieces of paper
and ink pens
and a medley of words
all purposed to form the letters of your name
all destined to sing your praise
with no punctuation
no commas
or periods
or apostrophes
just run on sentences
limitless
like sign language I don’t remember learning in Public School
and while my tongue clings to the roof of my mouth
while my heart waits
I’ll write you poems
in the form of prayers
on the palms of my hands
and I’ll leave them running
like fountains of compassion
overflowing the levees of thought
I’ll leave them open
unedited
unrevised
and grammatically incorrect
so you’ll read me
like you always do
and never forget what my heart looks like
with no punctuation
because all the world has ever needed
was love.
20 Ways to Get Yourself Out There as a Writer
This year get on out there! Great list on how.
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