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More Websites and Links for Book worms, Bloggers and Writers

Published on May 15, 2015May 15, 2015 by Jean M. Cogdell4 Comments

Thanks to Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog for connecting me to a new Blogger-

I love all the Links for readers and writers alike.

Lots to dig into tonight.

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Soon, on Tuesday 5th of May, there is to be a Writers’ resources evening at Cambridge Writers, the group that I am a member of, so with this in mind, I thought I would do a little warm up, and type up some helpful website links for Writers, Bloggers and Book Worms.

http://www.cambridgewriters.net/

I have been gathering the details of this list for some time so hope that it will be a useful resource.

So to kick it off my first discovery was Wasafari, who are they you might ask?
“Wasafiri is Britain’s premier magazine for international contemporary writing. Published quarterly, it has established a distinctive reputation for promoting work by new and established voices across the globe.”

http://www.wasafiri.org/

Book review/Bookish sites:

Netgalley https://www.netgalley.com/

Bookbridgr http://www.bookbridgr.com/

and Lovereading.co.uk http://www.lovereading.co.uk/

Read books for free: https://storycartel.com/search

Author’s resources:

Tips for authors on how to make book trailers: https://effrosinimoss.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/tips-for-authors-book-trailer-made-easy/

Tips on writing…

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Hunting for symbols?

Published on May 12, 2015 by Jean M. Cogdell1 Comment

I use Scrivener and MS Word for my writing.

Don’t ask why, I’m just weird that way. However, Sometimes my writing flow is interrupted when I can’t remember the shortcut key for a specific symbol.

Searching through the Insert Symbol tab is like coming to a stop sign.

To ease my irritation a little, I made a cheat sheet and thought I’d share.

So if you are tired of searching for just the right symbol as if you’re looking for a matching pair of socks in a drawer that won’t close. Hope this helps.

Shortcut keys for symbols

Ctrl+Alt	em dash
Ctrl+W	Close the active window / document.
Ctrl+Z	Undo an action.
Ctrl+Y	Redo the last action or repeat an action.
Ctrl+S	Save a document.
Ctrl+P	Print a document.
Ctrl+K	Insert a hyperlink.
Alt+Left	Arrow Go back one page.
Alt+Right	Arrow Go forward one page.
Ctrl+C	Copy selected text or graphics to the Office Clipboard.
Ctrl+V	Paste the most recent addition to the Office Clipboard.
Ctrl+Shift+A	Format all letters as capitals.
Ctrl+B	Applies or removes bold formatting.
Ctrl+I	Applies or removes italic formatting.
Ctrl+=	Apply subscript formatting (automatic spacing).
Alt, F, A	Save As.
Alt, S, T, I	Insert Table of Contents.
Alt, S, T, R	Remove Table of Contents.
Alt, W, F	Full Screen Reading – View > Document Views > Full Screen Reading.
Alt, W, R	Ruler. View > Show/Hide > Ruler.
Alt, F, X	Exit Word.

For less commonly used keyboard combinations check out this website:

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/msword_keyboard_ibm.htm

For more Alt symbol codes go to:

http://www.alt-codes.net/

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How to pick and choose your scenes

Published on May 11, 2015May 3, 2018 by Jean M. Cogdell3 Comments

One of my favorite ezines now is South West Writers

In today’s email is a great article on how to figure out which scenes in your writing need trimming or maybe cutting.

How do you decide which scenes are working?

Lorena Hughes gives a lot of information to help a writer make that decision. Hop over and read.

TRIMMING THE FAT (AKA EXPENDABLE SCENES) IN YOUR NOVEL by Lorena Hughes

Happy editing.

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Writing with Expression

Published on May 7, 2015May 6, 2015 by Jean M. Cogdell1 Comment

Want to give life to your writing?

In an earlier post I discussed Tropes and their technical writing terms. After reading Kristen Lamb’s post on story structure I became fascinated with their use and a link she provided to tvtropes.org.

Full Definition of TROPE

a word or expression used in a figurative sense: figure of speech
a common or overused theme or device: cliché
The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.

Tvtropes.org explains – a trope can be a plot trick, a setup, a narrative structure, a character type, a linguistic idiom… you know it when you see it. Tropes are not inherently disruptive to a story; however, when the trope itself becomes intrusive, distracting the viewer rather than serving as shorthand, it has become a cliché.