by PennyFreeman | Jun 15, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
Language is an amazing thing. So much emotion can be conveyed with a carefully construed statement. Each word is a drop of paint, each phrase a brush stroke, every conversation a canvas, so why would anyone choose to paint by numbers? My opinion—most people don’t...
by PennyFreeman | Jun 7, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
Hi! I’m Alyson. I’m new here. When I say “new,” I mean that I’m new to this mythical place of “Being Published,” not new to writing things. I’ll tell you how I got in, though, if you want. I have always been an avid reader. In preschool, I firmly requested that my...
by PennyFreeman | May 25, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
Today marks the first in an ongoing series of blog posts from Scott the new X author—a very different personna from Scott the X Marketing Guy. I can speak from authority on all things Marketing—well, kinda sorta, since we’re in the process of inventing all sorts...
by PennyFreeman | May 17, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
One of the things that stifled my development as a younger author came in the form of encouragement from my friends and family. When I would create something that wasn’t immediately uplifting or pretty, they would look at me and say, “Oh Ben, that’s...
by PennyFreeman | May 9, 2013 | Featured Friday
Getting through that critical first draft. It’s so thrilling, this author world I have entered. Vivatera has only been out for a few weeks and I have already had opportunities to meet many fun people, a lot of them writers, just like me. Some have asked how I had time...
by PennyFreeman | May 3, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
So, you’ve got the urge to write? You have an idea that you’d like to turn into a book? You want to see that book on the shelves in your local bookstore? Don’t wait. Do it NOW. I doubt that the idea of writing a book just occurred to you sometime during the last few...