by PennyFreeman | Aug 1, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
BY M. IRISH GARDNER I am so not a pantser. Y’know, those authors that simply sit down at their computers on a whim and write an entire book? Yeah, not me. Unless I’m free-writing, which I do as often as I can for warm-ups and practice, I am an outliner. I love knowing...
by PennyFreeman | Jul 26, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
BY AUTHOR BRECK LESUEUR While I love writing, my full-time job is programming software, and I can’t help but draw some comparisons between preparing for a writing session and RAM (random access memory). RAM is one of many ways to store data on your computer. But...
by PennyFreeman | Jul 19, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
BY AUTHOR J. AUREL GUAY The American Dream Like 80% of Americans I’ve dreamed of publishing a novel, and like most of that 80%, I don’t have a background in literature or English. But, if we are honest with ourselves, degrees (or lack of them) aren’t really what stop...
by PennyFreeman | Jul 12, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
BY AUTHOR BEN IRELAND I am speaking not from experience as a writer, but from experience as a reader. The most important thing in a story, to me, is the characters. If I am not in love with the protagonist, I will have a difficult time caring about what they are going...
by PennyFreeman | Jul 6, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
You’d rather have a leather-bound book than a blu-ray… You love to read. You edit emails in your head and can’t help but notice when a friend ends his sentence with a preposition, even though part of you knows there’s nothing wrong with it. You...
by PennyFreeman | Jun 28, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
When I sat down to write my first novel, I thought it would be a fairly simple task. After all, it was a fiction novel; I was making it all up. But as I got into the meat of the story, I realized that just because the characters, events, and places were fictitious, I...