by PennyFreeman | Jul 11, 2014 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY MEGAN OLIPHANT Maybe I should have written this blog post BEFORE the Orson Scott Card Literary Boot Camp, because my mind is so full of all the information, it will take several days for it all to gel into something coherent in my mind. So much good information....
by PennyFreeman | Jul 10, 2014 | Editor's Notes
BY KRISTINA HARRIS I’ve been playing the violin for over twenty years. As someone who is comfortable with my instrument, and music in general, I can hear musical pitch pretty well and can tune any violin quite easily using just one note from a piano: the sound of an...
by PennyFreeman | Jul 9, 2014 | Inside Marketing
BY BUNNY MINER Blogging and Your Author’s Platform Ok, sound off about how you did with your challenge from my last blog. (crickets chirping). Come on, you can do it. Put yourself out there and add something in the comments after this post on how starting your...
by PennyFreeman | Jun 28, 2014 | Editor's Notes
BY RIE SHERIDAN ROSE I’m Just a Proofreader . . . Nobody Loves Me . . . Okay, maybe that paraphrase of Bohemian Rhapsody is a little silly, but when it comes to the world of editing, the function is often overlooked, and it shouldn’t be. After all the editing of the...
by PennyFreeman | Jun 25, 2014 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY JESSICA SHEN While plot and character and setting are all well and good (I mean, I GUESS those components are important…) what will really keep your reader up to ungodly hours of the night flipping pages is tension. Tension, conflict, peril—these all compel us to...