All Blog Posts Tagged 'Writers' (15)

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Rating: 5 of 5 - sheer perfection

Have you ever smelled the magnolias, tasted the gumbo, seen the Spanish moss strung like Christmas garlands in the live oaks, heard the rain play on a tin…

     I'm not going to complain about the 300 days of sunshine we typically get each year in St. George, Utah, but the downside is that there isn't much of a change of seasons. My favorite time of year is Autumn and I miss the beautiful fall colors I grew up with in my hometown of Boulder, Colorado. To compensate, I have found new ways to celebrate the seasons. Novels and audiobooks are an excellent way to get me in the mood for whatever holiday is on tap.

October is an especially fun…

Some Writers Have Always Felt Unappreciated in Hollywood.

      Writers are often are greatly surprised or disappointed by how their work is changed when it is adapted for the big screen. When Irwin Shaw’s World War II novel The Young Lions was shot in Paris in 1958, Marlon Brando played the Nazi character. Ever the method actor, Brando provoked uproar by strutting around town in his SS uniform, even going into restaurants to dine. The thirty three year old star…

Some Writers Have Always Felt Unappreciated in Hollywood.

      Writers are often are greatly surprised or disappointed by how their work is changed when it is adapted for the big screen. When Irwin Shaw’s World War II novel The Young Lions was shot in Paris in 1958, Marlon Brando played the Nazi character. Ever the method actor, Brando provoked uproar by strutting around town in his SS uniform, even going into restaurants to dine. The thirty three year old star…

Inspiration - what an elusive creature.  Where does it come from?  Can one even define it?  For me there are several versions of it.  First there is the inspiration that gives birth to the initial idea for a story or a novel.  It can be such a small thing.

Let me give you an example.  I am currently working on a novel called The Seed. This is how simply an idea can emerge.  I was sitting down.  It was summer or early autumn and I was barefoot.  I felt a foreign object on the…

As part of the ongoing Indie Writers Unite Blog Tour, my next guest is Susan Ricci. Instead of doing the usual—an interview—Susan gracefully agreed for a guest blog. Susan is really funny. I follow her posts on IWU and I find myself many times with a big smile on my face or burst out laughing.

Here's mine, yours and ours, Susan Ricci:

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The original intent of this entry was to discuss my greatest writing fear. This is a concept that's been on my plate for over a month now, and the problem that I arrived at as I turned this over in my head was that it was nearly impossible to narrow it down. There are so many different possible writing fears that naming just one would be impossible.

There is, for example, the fear…

Because of the very special nature of BestsellerBound, this post is for Readers, Writers, and Publishers.

I’ve already had author interviews with the three Resident Authors of BestsellerBound: Darcia Helle Here,…