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The Perspective of an Amateur, and his two cents.
Today’s post is a little special. I’ve been trying to rattle my friends for guest posts and when I say rattle it’s more like, hey you, write me a guest post. The next question I get is: about what? I kind of just stare at the screen when or them when that happens, because here are these amazing writer friends and their first question is about what? My answer is anything! The brains of writer’s are freaking amazing. I am always and continually in love with the amazing brains of some of the beautiful writers in my life. So without further ado here’s Andy’s guest post. Mandi asked me…
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Writing Wednesday
Today’s Writing Wednesday piece is about something I know that everyone can’t live without! Food! I know, it’s hard to imagine what life would be like if we didn’t have the simple and yummy joy of food. You walk into a food court and there are so many choices to choose from, what do you choose and how do you choose it? Don’t forget to send your tries into me at dreaming (at) dreamingfullyawake (dot) com for a chance to get free editing.
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Finding The Write Distance
It’s no surprise that I love writing fiction. And I know that what I do isn’t perfect, it’s why editing exists because you need to keep remoulding, revising and revitalising your work to get it close to perfect. I’ll always find something wrong with my writing, but I’m a perfectionist, so it’s probably not a good thing to look at me (ha!). Today’s blog is about distance and finding the write distance in both your writing and in your editing. You’re probably looking at me and going, why the hell have you put the wrong right in title? Well for one, I’m covering two different types of distances. One that is…
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Writing Wednesday
I’m in Adelaide for the Writers’ Week that starts on Saturday and I’m a little excited to get to volunteer for it. Woop but in saying that today’s Writing Wednesday is probably one of my favourite things to write about. I like testing the boundaries in stories and I love characters that do it even more. It’s like a pet love of mine. I have no idea why, but today’s prompt is all about that. You’re character has just been given an order to not go out in the shit storm that’s about too happen, but of course they are. Explain what happens and how they test the boundaries…
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Writing Wednesday
Today’s Writing Wednesday piece is all about prettiness and flowers. Flowers lighten up a room and I’ve come so used to buying them for myself that I stray from the usual. If there’s something different I want it. So today, here’s your turn to tell me about flowers. Flowers arrive at your workplace without a card. It’s not Valentine’s Day and you don’t have a partner…who could they be from? Explore it. Send me your tries! Let me know about them in the comments below, send me a link or send me an email to dreaming (at) dreamingfullyawake (dot) com
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Writing Wednesday
It’s the month of loooove and today’s Writing Wednesday is all about the colour red. Your character wakes up in a bed of red satin with no memory of where they were before they fell asleep. Retrace their steps and tell their story. Send me your tries to dreaming@dreamingfullyawake.com for a chance to get free editing and a chance to be featured on Sharing Sunday.
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Writing Wednesday
I can sense a bit of a theme with this month’s Writing Wednesday. I’m so glad that it’s summer so I’m a little bit obsessed with the beach. It’s my favourite place to go and then recharge and switch back on. Today’s prompt is about getting ready to go on a beach trip. You’ve got your bathers on, but that’s as organised you are at the moment. What do you need to take with you to the beach? What’s in your bag? Do you have money for food or are you bringing some? Explain in detail and talk about how it feels to get ready to go to the beach.…
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Why Readers Love Flawed Characters
Today I’ve got a post that I probably started a few times over. I struggled with it, because I’m having a hard time writing anything and I’m having a hard time shaking off the doubt monster but today I’m back with a post about why readers love flawed characters, but to get there first I needed to talk about a few things involving writing. So hopefully you enjoy it. Writing is an immensely personal thing, everyone who is a writer understands that, but the writers without a thick skin tend to get left behind. They tend to take any sort of feedback and get defensive and take it as an attack…
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My Writing Ritual Practice
And it’s another year! Yeah! Bring it on. I’m really excited about the year that’s about to come. There are so many great and exciting things I have in the works for you guys. Not to mention that I am slowly getting my novel ready, I’m editing it, at the moment, and testing it to see how I feel about it, so far I think I like it. I mean I know there are parts in it that I actually dislike but I know that’s because I’ve been staring at it for so long, but that aside, I’m going to be getting my editing services out there. I’m currently sitting…
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NaNoWriMo is done, now what?
So now we’re out of November, the happiest writing month around as far as I’m concern, and now left to twiddle our thumbs, blink rapidly and try and find what life was like before the insaness that is NaNo, right? Or I might be alone in that, anyway! Now that you’ve got 50,000 words or even less, or maybe more, you’ve got a starting point. Don’t slack off now. Writing is like learning to ride a bike, you have to keep practicing to make it a part of your life and make it really resonate with what’s going on around you. Most people can’t just jump onto the computer and…