About a little thing called 750 Words We Like to Write - Social Networking for Writers & Bloggers The Author's To-Don't List From established to aspiring author—typically in an interview format, you never see the advice go much further than: read, write, and learn as much about the craft as you can. It’s rather standard, often recycled, and although I agree with it, I’d have to say most of my more memorable lessons came through trial and error. Specifically, these are things you shouldn’t do as per the trial and error of others. Not simple blunders, mind you, but large lapses in judgment that pay lasting damages. Don’t lie and say it’s non-fiction Also known as: Pulling a James Frey. Don’t lash out on reviewers Also known as: Pulling a Jacqueline Howett. Don’t post naked pictures of yourself on the Internet You’d think that’d be common sense, right? Don’t have a public meltdown Things are not always going to go the way you want them to. Don’t burn bridges The most popular example of this is when an author has been rejected by a certain lit mag enough times that they begin publicly bashing their publication.
Simple Way to Create a Mood for Your Story In today’s installation of Think Like a Writer, we’ll look at creating a certain mood for your story, novel, or picture book. Writers know that readers want a certain experience and part of that is creating emotion or feeling. In other words, we need to create a setting that has a certain mood. How to do that? Creating a mood is fairly simple, if you start with the basic idea of sensory details. Now, the writer’s eye kicks in as you select details. But this time, you want to select details that support your mood. If you want a happy beach, you choose different details; soft wind ruffles your hair, sunglasses slide down the sweat on your nose, the smell of sunscreen brings back memories of that time on the beach in Jamaica, the mojita tastes perfectly minty, and the sea is a glassy swell. Writers notice sensory details.
Book Country: Discover New Fiction with the Genre Map Publishers, booksellers, and readers describe books by their literary categories, or genres. It's how books are placed in stores and sold online. We created the Genre Map to help you find the right genre for your book. Please contact us if there's a category you'd like to see on the Genre Map. The Write Practice | Practical Inspiration Social Networking Sites for Writers, Message Boards for Writers We know Facebook and Myspace are used by many writers, but we listed new and old sites that are geared to writers. There are other social networking sites out there for film-makers and musicians and on and on, but these are the ones pointed directly at writers. Story Link Social Networking community for writers that allows you to create profiles and join groups. The Writing Room Social Networking community for writers that allows you to create profiles and join groups. My Good ebook Social Networking community for writers that allows you to create profiles and join groups. Urbis Post your writing, create a profile, join groups. AbcTales Write your story, post a story. Writertopia Social Networking community for writers that allows you to create profiles and join groups. My Creative Content Social Networking community for writers that allows you to create profiles and join groups. Fiction Press Post your stories Message Boards for Writers
A Newbie's Guide to Publishing Fuck Yeah Character Development! Novelr Book of Imaginary Beings From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Work by Jorge Luis Borges The Book of Imaginary Beings was written by Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero and published in 1957 under the original Spanish title Manual de zoología fantástica ("Handbook of fantastic zoology").[1][2][3] It contains descriptions of mythical beasts from folklore and literature. In 1967 the authors published an expanded edition retitled as El libro de los seres imaginaros. Contents[edit] Although a work of fiction, the book is situated in a tradition of Paper Museums, bestiaries, and natural history writing.[4] In the preface, Borges states that the book is to be read "as with all miscellanies... not... straight through... Versions[edit] The original 1957 publication of Manual de zoología fantástica contained eighty-two entries. In 2005, Penguin published an illustrated edition with a new English translation of the 116 entry 1967 edition as part of its series of Classics Deluxe editions. Original editions[edit]
Pubslush Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2012 - The Winners When we asked you to nominate your favorite writing blog as one of the top 10 blogs for writers, we got a huge response! Great to see how passionate readers are about their favorite writing blog. As you’ll see there are some previous winners, as well as some talented new bloggers in the top 10 of 2012. How were the winners selected? Initial qualification: A site must have been nominated more than once by multiple individuals. Jeff Goins Writer Positive Writer The Creative Penn Make a Living Writing The Write Practice Live Write Thrive Moody Writing The Romance University The Renegade Writer The Writers [Inner] Journey Congratulations to all the winners! The badge of distinction: If you are a winner, display the badge you see above on your blog and link the badge back to this page. Readers, be sure to check out these awesome blogs! And please help spread the word. We’ll be inviting the winners to guest post on WTD so that all our readers can get to know and enjoy these excellent bloggers.
online graphical dictionary and thesaurus Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. It's a dictionary! Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. The Visuwords™ Interface To use the applet you only need to type a word into the search query at the top of the page and press 'Enter'. You can zoom the model in and out by rolling the wheel on your mouse. Understanding the links between Synsets