I must confess to a little nervousness as I attended my very first Balticon. On one hand I was REALLY looking forward to meeting all of my online friends (at least the ones in attendance) but on the other that little affliction that affects many writers known as shyness was rearing its ugly head. I took a brief wander through the con, saw a few of the people I recognized and kept going. I was on my way to my room for the first time when I stopped myself. It was time to take myself to task. I asked myself the hard question: why am I here? Now before I go any further, I hope you don’t find it too […]
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Get Published Episode 32 – The Importance of Agents: A Conversation with CA Marshall
I had the opportunity to talk with Author, Freelance Editor and Literary Agency Intern CA (Cassandra) Marshall. We talked about the importance of agents to authors and a few other things too. It was a great conversation that I’m sure you’ll enjoy. I didn’t get any questions or feedback for this episode so I thought it would be nice to give you all a view of my own personal plan to publication. I talk about my four main tactics and the success I’ve had so far. Thanks for listening. -Michell Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode 32 – The Importance of Agents: A Conversation with CA Marshall Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start […]
Read moreDeveloping New Writing Habits
Many of us have some bad habit in our writing that we need to fix. It may be that we do too much telling of the story or too much dialogue. My personal bad habit is skimping on the descriptive elements in the story. I think it has something to do with being in too big a hurry to tell the story. So what do I do? Well, for starters, I start adding more description. There’s the no-brainer. But how? I’ve never been a fan of description for descriptions sake. It has always felt like padding the story. No, I’ve got to spend more time using the character’s various senses for one thing: sight, smell, taste, touch and sound. Now […]
Read moreGalaxyBillies – Episode 10
There is a lot going on in this episode. The humans decide whether to help Sheanna’Ree or not, Vice-Chancellor Greklor acts like a crazed animal and there is a good chance the Earth has been found. And just what has happened to Bobby John? I’ve also had a few requests for Kinfolk names which I have put up on the GalaxyBillies page on this site. If you would like to be included, here’s what I’d like you to do: send me your name or Internet handle to kinfolk at irreverentmuse dot com and I’ll generate a kinfolk name for you. Those I will post on the kinfolk page. No plans to use them for anything yet, but like the story, this is a work […]
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