Tag: writing
group name: bardsandsages
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October 08, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
I was reading the paper on my front porch enjoying a cup of coffee when the devil came to visit. It used to come as a surprise to see him, but it has turned into a daily routine. I never know where I . . .
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June 07, 2009 11:28 PM EDT --
There is a tree right smack in the middle of an empty fragment of unused land. It is a large wattle tree, blooming golden-yellow in the right season with adequate sunlight and water.
It might . . .
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June 15, 2009 03:10 AM EDT --
There is a fig tree in the center of our family courtyard. It has been with our family for generations, providing basketfuls of sweet-fleshed figs year after year. Celebrations are held under its peridot . . .
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October 16, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
Chapter Three:Balance Of The World: Interlude
The balance of the world was not just the balance of an antiquated globe left behind by history. It was not a fixed world, with arcane words . . .
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July 02, 2007 10:43 PM EDT --
A few years ago, I wrote an article that was syndicated over a lot of writer sites regarding the importance of following publisher guidelines. I think the actual method of submitting a work to a . . .
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July 05, 2007 04:01 AM EDT --
Having now enlisted myself into the using ranks of this service I have concluded that I should, perhaps, actually do something that might be of use to someone. With that in mind I thought I'd talk . . .
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July 05, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
While no one tends to ask me (I think they're afraid of what the answer might be) other writers seem to at least occasionally get asked where they get ideas from. While most of the responses I've . . .
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August 26, 2009 02:12 AM EDT --
Been busy with Natasha. She's fast growing up, getting rounder and cuter. She will be exactly a month on the 1st of September.
Book and writing-wise, I have signed up with Createspace and right now, . . .
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July 03, 2007 09:37 PM EDT --
I don't pretend to be all that important. I run a small...tiny...itsy bitsy...press, Bards and Sages. It turns a profit, but I don't do it full time. I haven't published . . .
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July 02, 2007 10:06 PM EDT --
If you haven't been by our website in a while, we recently updated our submission guidelines and announced two major projects for the 2007-2008 publishing year. The first project is a trio of . . .
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December 03, 2007 05:03 AM EST --
I'm in the cheap seats for this latest incarnation of the First Chapters contest. I didn't have a Mystery/Crime ms or I'd have probably thrown my hat in with the rest of the authors.
I . . .
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August 17, 2007 06:11 PM EDT --
Dialogue can play an important role on the page. This is especially true when it is the primary method by which a reader or audience is given information such as in a comic book or a play. The method of . . .
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February 26, 2008 09:06 AM EST --
Forget everything you think you know about the planes.
The Cosmology of Karma explores the true nature of the planes, where the gods are far from the most powerful beings and the fight for . . .
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September 10, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
Just for the record, I DO NOT EVER READ ROMANCE NOVELS. No exceptions. No "just once." No, "but you'll like..." NO NO NO. I hate romances and erotica. . . .
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October 16, 2007 05:54 PM EDT --
It would be a long night in the Shinjuku. For Deki it already was. She had been waiting nearly three hours when the Globe Express van finally pulled up. It was probably just her impatience, but even the . . .
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October 31, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
November approaches. And for thousands of people that no longer means lovely foliage and turkey. It means Nanowrimo.
Of course most of you, whether you participate or not, have . . .
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July 02, 2009 10:49 PM EDT --
Sorry for the silence. I am now close to delivery (three weeks more to go) and still working on stories.
At the moment, my current stories are stored at http://jolantru.dreamwidth.org/.
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September 14, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
Writing scams abound on the internet. Anyone with an e-mail address can claim to be a publisher, and too many writers are too eager to get published. In reality, there is no reason to fall . . .
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July 07, 2007 04:36 AM EDT --
As I was working on my article on genre emulation in roleplaying games I started to think about examples of game elements that are a certain way simply because that's the way they have always been. . . .
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January 30, 2009 06:38 PM EST --
Dialogue should do a number of things for your story. It should help move the story forward. It should also help define the characters, and help flesh out their relationships with . . .
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