online aids

Museum of Idiosyncrasy | Link Licker Pick

11.09.2011
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If you’re under 18 or easily offended, you absolutely should not check out this site; otherwise, go there and see for yourself.

I go there to get inspiration when I need to write sexy scenes. Every image, to me, tells a story. It evokes a feeling. Every quote speaks truthfully. And, I love it.

Tagged as: because we all need a way to waste an hour, let's talk about (writing) sex, online aids, the care and feeding of your muse

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Last Chance Workshop

06.04.2011

CJ Redwine, whose query workshop I’ve mentioned before, got a great new book deal. Unfortunately for the rest of us, she’s only going to be doing one more query workshop and then she’s calling it quits.  She says she still has room and the last one starts Monday! You missed your chance. I hear she’s [...]

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You Could Win a Free Professional Book Edit

03.19.2011

The ever entertaining @CA_Marshall (Twitter) is giving away her professional services to one lucky winner!  Having followed her tweets for quite some time and checked out her site, I’d already been mulling over paying up for an edit from her.  Especially after already doing what she suggests, checking out the big names and finding their rates [...]

Tagged as: editing, online aids, querying, the business side, writing tools

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The Male POV (Rom Writers)

07.18.2010

Title: Show Up Naked: Writing the Male POVInstructors: Chris Redding Date: August 2 – 27, 2010 Classroom: Mile High DESCRIPTION: This class is a fun, but informative trip through a man’s mind. Scary thought, I know, but when you finish this course you will know more about that man in your life and, more importantly, [...]

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Stages of Change and Character Arc

03.28.2010

On Kathy Carmichael’s awesome site, she has a form to aid in creating a short synopsis and plotting your story.  You should go download that now.  I’ll wait. She suggests, on the first page, to list ten events that will help change a character’s core belief and to keep in mind the stages of change.  [...]

Tagged as: character development, craft, online aids, plotting, process, stupid synopsis, writing tools

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Create Your Writing Bible

03.06.2010
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An excellent article on how to create a set of rules for what’s selling and, more importantly, what you like reading in your romance novels.  It makes it a lot easier to know what to write when you know what you like. But I needed help—some guidelines when it came to spinning a story that [...]

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Writing Isn’t a Game

02.08.2010

Writing is entirely too hard to not take seriously.  Like the decision to go on living, the decision to decide between life and quality of life, writing is a choice.  It’s not something we’re called to (though it may call to us, like the siren); it’s not something you do halfway, because maybe you can [...]

Tagged as: because we all need a way to waste an hour, i'd recommend, online aids, the care and feeding of your muse, writing past the fear

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Best. Character. Name. Finder. Ever.

09.19.2009

’tis be, as described, th’ best character name finder ever. Let’s spy wit’ ye eye, ye can pick which letters it can’t or must start wit’ or end wit’, th’ length ‘n number ‘o syllables, even what letter sequence it contain. Then thar’s style preferences, like: Traditional, Contemporary/Invented, Passin’ Fashion ‘o th’ Past, etc. Then [...]

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Authonomy

01.29.2009
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HarperCollins has set up a website called Authonomy to flush out the brightest, freshest new writing talent around.  

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