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Triskele Books Blog: June 2015
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Saturday, 27 June 2015. CreateSpace Vs Ingram for Print-on-Demand Distribution. Guest post by Karen Myers. From her original post. Note: The following observations reflect Karen's personal understanding of the differences between the two services, based on her own and others’ observations. They do not include private information received from any of the vendors involved. The first Expanded service compares directly to Ingram. Buying a print book from Amazon. Buying a print book anywhere else. Except for ...
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Ode to a Dead Salmon: July 2013
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Ode to a Dead Salmon. A bad writing contest hosted by Running Fox Books. Monday, July 29, 2013. Newest entries show first; scroll down to view all. To enter the contest, click here. Entries must be received by Aug. 5. Finalists will be posted on Aug. 12. ODE TO A DEAD SALMON: TWO PERSPECTIVES. With apologies to James Russell Lowell). By Susi Gregg Fowler. Oh, what is so foul as a midsummer day? Then, if ever, the putrid reigns,. When the wind brings a stench. That will make your teeth clench,. At the cla...
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The Self-Made Writer: The Successful Author: The Heart of Your Book
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A teaching series for writers. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. The Successful Author: The Heart of Your Book. What’s at the heart of a successful book? A multitude of answers could be offered up: an intriguing premise, engaging characters, a strong voice, a plot that twists and surprises. In school, we don’t learn to search for the heart of a book; we learn look for its topic and themes, which are far more cerebral. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Did Twain know the heart of his book? Acclaimed author and t...
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The Self-Made Writer: February 2015
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A teaching series for writers. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Free Books: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. A scam: don't fall for it! Let’s keep this simple. Everyone likes to get things for free. (Whether they value them is another matter; mostly, they don’t.). Say you want free books. There are good ways to get them. Libraries, for certain. If they don’t have the book you’re looking for, ask them to order it. Piracy of intellectual property, like everything else in the economic realm, is fundamentally abo...
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The Self-Made Writer: Try This
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A teaching series for writers. Time, Risk, and Writing:. As a remedy for the idea that writing must be about ideas,. Suggests that in your daily journal you note, with minimal explanation or editorializing, things that stop you in your tracks. “Aprioristic ideas make for writing of no vigor,” says Lea. Instead, write from your seemingly unconnected time-stoppers. What you’ll discover, Lea promises, is personal idiom and a range of previously unarticulated emotional truths. Select a short scene from a dra...
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The Self-Made Writer: Characters Strategies for Compelling Fiction
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A teaching series for writers. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Characters Strategies for Compelling Fiction. Characters that fail to engage are among the most common reasons that books are rejected or poorly received. What are your characters hiding from you? What are they hiding from themselves? Learn to develop compelling, multi-faceted characters and you’ll captivate readers. The creator, of course, is you, the author) In what way is your creator not being fair to you? Interviews with your favorite authors.
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The Self-Made Writer: April 2015
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A teaching series for writers. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Four Tips for Beginning Your Book. If you’re a regular reader here, you know I’m returning from a couple of weeks off—productive time, in terms of author events and family gatherings, and also for my novel in progress, though I worked on it only during the first leg of my journey (when you fly to and from Alaska, there’s plenty of flight time). But something felt off. Here, four tips for beginning your book:. Develop an instinct for false starts:.
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The Self-Made Writer: January 2015
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A teaching series for writers. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Creative Mistakes: Five Ways Authors Box Themselves In. As an author, you’re a creative type. That goes without saying. But in your approach to your craft, your publishing, and your promotion, are you actually as creative as you might be? Writing is a scary business, any way you cut it. In Write Your Best Book. The companion volume to What Every Author Should Know. A focus on the wrong kind of being:. In any uncertain enterprise, the natural tende...
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The Self-Made Writer: Quotable
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A teaching series for writers. Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake." E.L. Doctorow. 8220;We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” Helen Keller. The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put first." Pascal. Our most haunting dreams, no matter how hallucinatory, are the most busily etched.”. It should make you panic and ask yourself ...
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