#writerpride

[blog-addict-and-proud]

You guys!!!! My #Jaylos story is number 24 on Wattpad!!! Out of the hundreds of #Jaylos Stories, I’m number 24!!!!!!! Omg!!!!!!!! #WriterPride #JaylosFanFic #SoProud #SoHappy

[virgilioastram]

I wasn’t going to do this but...

Ok. I think I decided to do this. I previously hesitated about posting the result of my experiment. I wrote two similar poems about similar topics: Drop and Teardrop. I wrote Drop purposely mediocre and I tried giving my other poem much more thought. And immediately, one scored more likes than the other. Drop was more ‘successful’, the one I considered inferior. As a writer, academic, and pretentious douchebag, it hurt me a lot. As a creator, it scares me. And I had a conversation with one of my best friends, someone who can think uncannily like me and vice versa. WE are scared that our works would just fade of obscurity. For a lot of reasons... from material to our pride. But I told her that it didn’t matter, it just happens that we can’t control other subject’s interests and likes. And honestly, regardless, it doesn’t mean to stop writing or creating. It just means that we need to land the thing that will stick, in our way of course. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I rather die in obscurity than be praised for mediocrity. Also, i rather experiment, go crazy, and say what needs to be said.  Still, I thank you 230 something followers, and bots of course, for paying attention to me. But my work isn’t for you, it’s for me. I’m just glad you can be pleased by my madness. Here’s hoping I can convert more of you to my ways. And ruin more days.   The absolute worst: Virgilio Astram, El caballero de paso fino. 

[kallmaker]

In Every Port - History on a Flyleaf

I’ve seen hot debates in more than one group over that photo of really really long books that someone split in two to make them easier to carry. The reaction is often horror, and many people have strong feelings about dog ears, note taking, and other forms of “destruction” of the book. This picture is why I don’t mind what people do with books they own. This is the flyleaf of my first book, In…

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[kallmaker]

Picking a Favorite Child - Free Anthology and Mega-Sale News

That Dreaded Question of the most challenging questions a writer can get is, “What’s your favorite of what you’ve written?” The answer is never easy. Most of the time, my favorite thing is what I last imagined in my head and actually made it to the page the way I hoped it might. Or that scene that for some reason always makes me cry. Or has a writer’s tool in it that I managed to use to its best…

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[lillianccc]

Having a little too much fun with my new light box. Message inspired by @shadowsandhighlite, the fiercest writer I know.💃🏻 #writerpride #officeswag #noonewillseeitexceptme https://www.instagram.com/p/BqLnpZogyWy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lqllg6nbfxlt

[kallmaker]

So I Had This Idea 2018 - From Idea to Published Work

There are many right ways to finish a novel. Over the years I’ve seen over and over that there’s only one wrong way: not to finish.

Lucky me, every year I’ve been honored to moderate a panel of authors who tell us how they personally got it done. The light bulb went off and they took that idea and transformed it into a finished story. The “So I Had This Idea” Panel is one of my favorite parts of

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[kallmaker]

So I Had This Idea 2017 - From Idea to Published Work

Ask a hundred writers “how’d you finish that book?” and you’ll get 97 different answers and 3 people who’ll wander off muttering. Well, there won’t be any muttering in this year’s installment of the “So I Had This Idea” panel at the 2017 Golden Crown Convention in Chicago this summer.  But there will be six different answers. This annual panel was the brain child of author Pol Robinson who…

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[with-amore-infinito]

I'm vaguely annoyed at Amazon's TV division for picking up Zombieland. there is definitely room in the world for a zomedy but it should have been Right Behind You.