Starlog

Lesson Twenty-Nine from a Manuscript Red Line: How’s your synopsis?

The publisher talked a lot about the synopsis in the closing comments of the Red-line. I found this really strange, but I thought it had merit to mention it. For an intro into where these tips are coming from, please see my post: A Full Manuscript Rejection, or a Gold Mine? You can also click… Read more

February 27, 2012
So— what color is your character’s hair?

I recently jumped onto an on-line first page critique blog hop. (My most recent first page is posted in my header bar if you’d like to slap me around a little) I glanced over the comments last night, and one jumped out at me. She said that I spelled Blonde wrong. According to her, there… Read more

February 25, 2012
Hollywood Fiction and Technology Myths – My take on it. (Not necessarily from a writer’s perspective)

USA Today recently posted an article about television and movies, and how completely ridiculous some of the “Tech problem solving” is. The author, Kim Komando, mentioned current movies, as well as movies from way back… like “2001, A space Odyssey”, “War Games” (a personal favorite), “The Matrix”, “Swordfish”, “Independence day”(Another favorite) , and Terminator (Hey! … Read more

February 24, 2012
The Significance of Social Networking. Blogging, Facebook, and Twitter

Circuitmart recently ran an article about research that was just done on Social Networking. It focused on Twitter, and Facebook… not so much blogging, but the principles are similar. If you’d like to see the article, you can click on the link below, but I’ll summarize for you. http://www.circuitmart.com/mart/49609.shtml (There is a 30 second commercial,… Read more

February 22, 2012
Lesson Twenty-Eight from a Manuscript Red Line: Very Discreet Point of View Switches

I’ve talked about this before, but the second time might be a charm. I think a lot of people are having trouble with discreet POV switches. The big ones… where we pop heads for half a chapter are easy to find. The one-liners may be harder to spot. For an intro into where these tips… Read more

February 20, 2012
Hello. Let me introduce myself. I’m an Idiot.

Hello. Let me introduce myself. I am an Idiot. The other day, as some of you noticed, I posted my Monday night February 13th Blog post “Lesson 27” in the normal time-frame. Nothing new. I try to be punctual. This time, though, I tried to jump the gun and get it out before dinner. (I’d… Read more

February 19, 2012