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When the Ending is the Beginning

January 15, 2010

Write a short story with a begin­ning, a mid­dle and an end­ing. Make it at least three para­graphs or one page in length. Then swap the begin­ning of your story with the end­ing. So that your first para­graph is now your last.
How does the story read now? Some things will be con­fus­ing and yet… does it […]

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@OnlineFiction on Twitter

November 30, 2009

Do you write fic­tion online? Have a look at this Twit­ter account geared to online fic­tion writ­ers and those who want to read them.

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No One is Infallible

November 1, 2009

The prob­a­bil­ity of some­one watch­ing you is pro­por­tional to the stu­pid­ity of your actions.
Read in The Rules of Thumb blog.
I like when char­ac­ters in the book I’m read­ing are less than per­fect. One great way to illus­trate this is with humour, hav­ing them drop some­thing. slip and fall, or other things which hap­pen to everyone. […]

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Exchange of Realities

October 30, 2009

Erika writes Exchange of Real­i­ties, a blog about game writ­ing (the writ­ten part of video games). It’s a nicely nichey blog topic. But she has quite a bit of off topic posts, due to writ­ing for a blog net­work like Today I would guess. Still, I like see­ing some­one who found an inter­est­ing niche. Her […]

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Fantasy Names

October 29, 2009

Think up some fan­tasy names for char­ac­ters. You don’t have to take them seri­ously, you never have to actu­ally use them, just have fun cre­at­ing them. Once you start, you’re going to be hooked! If you need a place to start remem­ber, names are often based on a job some­one was doing. Go from there.

Tree Book­head
Tommy […]

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More Women Should be Horror Writers

October 2, 2009

It’s been a tough, frus­trat­ing day at work. You get home feel­ing you just man­aged to drag your­self through the door. On the fridge, a note, one of those “gone fish­ing” type of notes from your sig­nif­i­cant other. In fact, every­one has gone out for the night. You will have the whole place to yourself […]

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Fix That Bad Boy

August 18, 2009

I think it’s odd how much com­ment spam I get about drugs for sex­ual dys­func­tion. Yes, I’m divorced and not dat­ing but that doesn’t mean I’m like a cat in heat or a dried up spin­ster. I’m just fine, thanks for ask­ing.
Actu­ally, some­times I’m kind of evil. I like day­dream­ing about men as sexual […]

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A Vintage Burlesque Star

July 24, 2009

Renee Andre claims to be one of the first strip­pers to have a breast enlarge­ment. It almost killed her. I read this in a book review (Chate­laine mag­a­zine) for Pretty Things, about bur­lesque queens and vin­tage glam­our shots, by Liz Gold­wyn.
I couldn’t find any­thing about Renee Andre, just men­tions of her in regards to other […]

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Writing Your Very Own, Very Good Villain

July 16, 2009

I think I’ve been hav­ing trou­ble get­ting my book off the ground, writ­ing the char­ac­ters,  because I have been writ­ing the vil­lain as the hero­ine and the hero­ine as the vil­lain. At first I thought I was just out of prac­tice writ­ing a good vil­lain. So, as I was in the shower and had nothing […]

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The Rogue Taxidermist

July 5, 2009

Some things are just creepy. See­ing taxi­dermy (taxi­der­mied?) ani­mals which have been sit­ting some­where for­got­ten for years is quite creepy to me. I don’t know why exactly, I’m really sure they are long and well dead after all. Just… ick!
Taxidermy.net — For the odd per­son who may come here and want to know more about hunting […]

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And They Say Sex Sells…

June 14, 2009

Do you write sex scenes or erot­ica? I have writ­ten both and an adult col­umn (weekly). I’m ok with it and can live with the fact. But, I don’t like any­one I actu­ally know to read any of the slutty stuff I’ve writ­ten. It embar­rasses me. Kind of silly maybe, kind of back to that […]

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Soap Opera Babies

September 13, 2008

On a soap opera the char­ac­ters who are men can have chil­dren pop up from out of the wood­work, it makes it easy for the writ­ers to intro­duce new, young char­ac­ters into the sto­ry­line and have them already con­nected to the exist­ing char­ac­ters. Good strat­egy.
Women don’t have it that easy. We know when we have […]

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Even Soap Opera Divas Get the Blues

January 8, 2008

You’re an actor on a soap opera. You’re gor­geous, you have fans around the world and your own lofty apart­ment in New York City. Things are going pretty great and you look good too! So what’s your prob­lem? Even the most beau­ti­ful and rich have prob­lems. Do you secretly have warts? Does your Mother call […]

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