Category: Writing

Best Writing Tips of the Week

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Plotting can avoid a Saggy Middle

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This post, By Guest Blogger Margie Lawson and Darynda Jones over at Writers in the Storm might get you to rethink plotting. Click on the link below to read more.

How to Write With Your Right Brain

By Guest Blogger Margie Lawson andDarynda Jones

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Is Social Media your problem?

Then hop over and read

Is Social Media Sucking the Life from Your Writing?

by  over at Mudpie Writing.

Has your book description got you stumped?

Then you might want to read Kristina Stanley’s latest post
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Conflict

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What is it good for?

Absolutely Nothing

The newscaster ducked, his words lost amid the rocket blasts.

I hit rewind and watched as desert instead of jungles filled the screen.

Decades past, still they die and still I miss you.

So much lost, so little gained, all for nothing but heartache and pain. War.

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Today’s A to Z Challenge is a re-post from a  Five Sentence Fiction Prompt in 2014

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Baby

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Goose bumps raise the tiny, fine hairs on my neck as you murmur against my skin, Baby. I never tire of

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hearing you call me Baby. The years haven’t dampened the thrill. Your lips brush mine and the word baby escapes in a whisper. Forever your baby, lover and friend.

A late start

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…but better than never.

I’m off to a roaring start with my very first A to Z challenge.

Falling back on the easy About Me post.

In-a-nutshell, writing is my third act in life. I grew up in a small SC town located near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Smoky Mountains2

Living this third act in Texas peppers many of my stories with down-home Southern flavor. 

Click here to read more about me.