Starlog

  • Reconnecting with What’s Really Important

    I am about to embark on a long needed vacation. It’s time to relax, and spend some time with my family.  I can’t wait to see the look on my children’s faces when the plane lifts off the ground, or when they see the sunrise from above the clouds for the first time in their… Read more

  • Free Professional Writing and Query Help from Real Agents!

    WriteOnCon 2011 starts today and goes through Thursday.  If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a really great place to get gads of information all in one place.  It’s great stuff presented by industry professionals that writers normally would have to know someone or have to jump through hoops to try to get. Here is… Read more

  • Rooting out the Show Verses Tell

    Have you ever read a manuscript that was JAM PACKED LOADED with tell sequences? Was it your own?  Would you admit to it if it was? Even bigger question:  Do you even know what I am talking about?  (I admit, I didn’t when I started out) There are actually people out there querying novels that… Read more

  • Revision time! (Using losing a contest to your advantage)

    I mentioned last week that one of the judges in a writing contest I entered liked my pitch, but I didn’t make the finals because my first page was not “exciting enough”.  As any good writer would do, I used this as a learning experience, and I tossed my first page and started over.  Now,… Read more

  • YATopia Micro-Synopsis Writing Contest

    There’s a Micro-Synopsis contest going on over at YATopia Here’s the Scoop From the Yatopia Blog Site: ————————————————————————— A Micro Synopsis competition is no small feat – it’s HUGE! And a real test of a writer’s ability to use economy of words. So YA agent John Cusick from S©ott Treimel NY (can check out his tweets… Read more

  • Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web!

    Did you know that twenty years ago, August 6, 1991, the very first WEB page was published?  Back then, only a few people could view it, so no one really even knew it existed, but WOW has it totally changed the world as we know it! I remember when I used to have a question… Read more