Tag: creativity
member name: Charlotte McClain
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July 06, 2007 07:50 AM EDT --
Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Oh wait, that's not mine. This is my sci fi galaxy about telepaths and evil dictators. I've acutally got 30 years worth of history worked out and . . .
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July 16, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
I don't want to freak anybody out, so nobody take this personally.
Sometimes you run across something someone wants you to critique that is just awful. The story is trite, the grammar is bad, . . .
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September 28, 2007 07:59 AM EDT --
Ok, I've been chewing on this for a couple weeks now and I'll be the first one to admit that it's half baked, but I thought I'd throw it out and see if it floated.
Joining a critique . . .
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September 29, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
Giving a good critique is difficult. You want to help the critiquee become a better writer, but you don't want to frustrate him or her out of ever wanting to create again. Finding a middle . . .
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September 28, 2007 07:23 AM EDT --
Being critiqued is both painful and exciting. You put your best into your art and then you hand it to some stranger to pass judgment on it. On one hand, you've made a huge leap from hobbist to, at . . .
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July 04, 2008 08:11 PM EDT --
A few days ago in the middle of the chaos that is my life, I was hanging out on the Romance Divas forum procrastinating when I saw a post about Lyrical Press lowering their word counts and seeking submissions. . . .
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April 29, 2007 12:53 AM EDT --
Here's a list of Romance contests and deadlines I found. Good luck to one and all!
Updated and all sites tested...Compiled by Donna Caubarreaux.
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E = Electronic Format Available
EO = Electronic . . .
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August 29, 2007 07:30 AM EDT --
Greetings and salutations. Pam is a friend of mine from another online group and she's new to Gather. In fact, she just joined up the enter the contest. She's a really excellent writer, but she . . .
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September 16, 2007 03:33 AM EDT --
C.C. commented that she has reached the 2 million word mark in her writing and I started wondering how many words I had written. Of course, lots of words are lost. One whole novel of approximately 70K . . .
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September 07, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
I've wanted to be a writer since I was 12 years old. I was in fifth grade and reading behind my age level when I discovered The Hobbit. We were only allowed to check one book out from the school library . . .
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October 04, 2007 06:33 AM EDT --
I don't claim to know how best to write or even how you should do it. In fact, I think if you come across someone who claims their system is the only system, you should run far, far away. The world . . .
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September 10, 2007 08:37 AM EDT --
A few years ago I bought a book with a floor plan for the Millenium Falcon in it. I got it home and was highly amused to discover that there is no bathroom on the Falcon. How is this, I wondered. There's . . .
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September 15, 2007 01:32 AM EDT --
I am a detail oriented person. It made me one of the best magazine clerks Borders has ever seen and it got me a job as a circulation manager at a magazine. Right now it's making me a really good teacher . . .
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September 15, 2007 10:06 PM EDT --
Last winter I took an online course with Leigh Michaels which was extremely valuable on several fronts. I met great people and was spurred to meet more great people. I figured out a few things I couldn't . . .
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September 22, 2007 03:59 AM EDT --
Ok, for a couple of days now I've been trying to send out thank yous to everyone who commented on my First Chapter and I really have to throw in the towel here. My mother taught me well, but at some . . .
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September 15, 2007 12:34 AM EDT --
Not too long ago, Helen and I were plotting Christmas. I like to plan ahead and when there are 4 year olds and a bureaucracy involved, it's the best method. Koreans claim to not be big on sweet things . . .
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November 02, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
I bumped across this today. It was attributed to Anon (such a prolific writer!)
Our Father, who art in Heaven
Has also written a book.
Just a little something to brighten your day. . . .
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January 26, 2008 02:21 AM EST --
Not actual author's royalty checks, but a pretty nice ballpark figure. Personally, I have few delusions left about what "real" (i.e. published) author's make off their books, but I know . . .
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January 27, 2008 02:36 AM EST --
I just noticed the Publishers Weekly review of my Amazon Breakthrough Novel entry and I probably should be curled into the fetal position right now, but I guess I have thicker skin than I thought. Some . . .
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January 20, 2008 12:22 AM EST --
This is my synopsis for Three Alarm Tenant. If you were a romance editor would you buy this book (or at least request a complete manuscript) and why or why not? Go ahead, be honest. I can take it.
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