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 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 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, 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 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 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 Read more