The First Line.

Too often I hear bad, and I mean really bad advice that leaves writers plundering and pillaging their brains for something they do not need. This mainly involves the first line of a story.
We hear these lies, “The first line is the most important” and thus we quest off after some lost ideal of the [...]

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Some Days you have to Laugh.

I was reading the Blog of Stephenie Meyer, the Author of Twilight, and one of the funniest things she had to say was: “The meanest rejection I got came after Little, Brown had picked me up for a three-book deal”
Now this is something important to realize in life, just because someone says “I am an [...]

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You Suck!

That is, if you are Lucky, You suck.
Everyone from Stephen King to J K Rowling, from Ann Rice to Stephenie Meyer, it seems they all have someone that says “They Suck”
Entire groups say these people suck and suck hard.
So with that in mind, I sincerely hope that one day, you (and I) can Suck just [...]

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And the petals of her love unfrilled for his….

… short stubby dog collar. (Take that as you will)

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We all deal with this. We all suffer from this condition of what do with sex in our stories.
Sex in stories seems to be an aspect of life as a writer, because it is an aspect of life as a whole.
How we [...]

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New Stuff!

Well I was messing around with the site again, as you can see, I changed the banner, added in some stuff to the side bar, like a random Thought image, which is a wonderful pooch named Mick.
In case you are wondering why I am using dogs and dog toys as my Icons, it is a [...]

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Looking for Fearlessly.

Few things in this world encompass every trait of human greatness as Dogs do,  Hence my Avatar being a dog toy, the Cuz. Good Cuz/Bad Cuz.
Now I was tempted to go with Comedy and Tragedy, for my site, but as much as I enjoy the duality of that Image, that was not exactly what I [...]

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Copyright

Ok, we all deal with this. The worry that our work will get stolen.
First off, it can’t get “stolen” unless someone physically takes it from you.
But the fear is that it will be copied, or more to the point, someone copying the concept, idea or work and then claiming that they did it, or even [...]

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Let Nothing Stop YOU !

Many times we might feel that what we have to work with will affect the quality of our work.
We blame the Programs we have, or the access we have to things on our progress or ability to create.

There are tons of Word Processors and spread sheet makers and things like that,
so much so that we [...]

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What is a Cliché?

Admit it, many of us have heard this term but few of us really know what exactly a Cliché really is.
It seems to be this big bad evil dark cloud that hovers over our work like some hungry beast ready to strike.
Well, maybe not, but unless we know what a Cliché is, we just will [...]

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Something I just stumbled upon.

Well, I was wandering the internut like I normally do in search of subject matter to discuss, well, really I am trolling around looking for how creativity is being extinguished or attacked and lo and behold I met this wonderful dynamic person named C.F. Jackson.
Everything she said had this wonderful positive feeling to it, this [...]

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