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September Group Read Along : Girl Geek

Sep 5, 2018 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

GIRL GEEK GROUP READ-ALONG

starts tomorrow

….are you ready?

Step 1: Grab your copy of Girl Geek for just $0.99 (hurry because the sale ends SOON!)

Step 2: CLICK HERE to join the Brenna Aubrey Book group for readers on Facebook!

Step 3: Post and participate in discussions, games, Q&As, live videos and paperback/audio giveaways during the month of September!

Step 4: HAVE FUN and meet new wonderful friends who enjoy the same type of books that you do !

Sale ends THIS WEEKEND, then it’s back to full price.

Sometimes the Process is Messy

Jan 24, 2011 | Doing the Write Thing | 0 Comments

And what a mess I've made! In the aftermath of NaNoWriMo! I had a total of approximately 83,000 words at the end of November. When I printed out the manuscript (due to a mess of compatibility between Scrivener and Word), several scenes were duplicated. Beyond...

More for the library

Dec 30, 2010 | Reference Library | 0 Comments

Saving links for my own future use and clearing out tabs: The Royal Navy Memoirs: Rise and Progress of the Royal Navy Naval Tactics Beat to Quarters (.wav file) Royal Navy: Articles of War Ship's Bell Sloop of War Cruizer class Brig-Sloop HMS Fantome HMS Reindeer HMS...

Research: All About Underclothing

Dec 19, 2010 | Reference Library | 0 Comments

The things you never worried about knowing while reading Pride and Prejudice: Just what was Lizzie wearing underneath her gown? I guess it would never signify, since occassion "on stage" never called for her to take off her gown. Writing a romance novel set in the...

2011 Literary Challenge

Dec 10, 2010 | Literary Challenge | 7 Comments

For a change, and for some fun and good mental enrichment, I plan to engage in a literary (but non-writing!) challenge in 2011. I found this out on the Internet. Thanks, Internets! Here's a copy/paste from the originator of the challenge. Victorian Literature...

Remedies: Beating Creativity Block

Dec 9, 2010 | Doing the Write Thing | 0 Comments

A writer is a writer because even when there is no hope... she keeps writing anyway. --Junot Diaz Writer's block is creativity block and it can be frustrating. Many writers claim not to get it at all. More power to them, I say. Unfair are those same writers'...

Letters to an Aspiring Author, part 1

Dec 6, 2010 | Literary | 0 Comments

“For the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place” —Rilke Rainier Maria Rilke was born in what is now Czech Republic, of humble but not impoverished beginnings. He, among other things, was a poet and philosopher, rubbing elbows, at the turn...

Much Ado About Noting

Dec 2, 2010 | Doing the Write Thing | 0 Comments

"A writer is a writer because even when there is no hope... she keeps writing anyway." --Junot Diaz One thing I've noticed as I begin to associate more with other writers is that our processes tend to be wildly different. What one writer does and works so well for...

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner

Dec 1, 2010 | Doing the Write Thing | 0 Comments

This blog gets its name from the catchphrase of NaNoWriMo, "Thirty Days and Nights of Literary Abandon." And, for the past five years, I've set the majority of extra-professional life aside to participate in the phenomenon. It has, in my opinion, paid off. I am a...

The Greatest Love Letter in English Literature

Nov 29, 2010 | Literary | 0 Comments

And what, you may ask, is my opinion on this matter? Well I do have one and it is a strong one. Its author is none other than Miss Jane Austen (are you surprised?) and it is penned, in the story, by Captain Frederick Wentworth. Before I post the text and my...