Editing for Indie Writers: Is Your First Draft Ready? (Chapter 2, Part 1)

I woke up this morning and felt like an utter and complete idiot…about nothing and everything. “Hello, my name is DeAnna, and today I feel like a loser.”  “Hi, loser.”  ***Dave explained what I was really doing wrong, though: “I think it was the cursed tiki idol you took from that cave. Maybe you just

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Alice in Wonderland as Instruction Manual

I went to a lovely 12th-night party this weekend at some friends’ house where we exchanged Christmas gifts, and the person who drew me (Dave Newman!) gifted me with a bunch of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-themed books, one of which is Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser. The first essay was a feminist

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-22

Book review of Curses! A F***ed Up Fairy Tale…now with links 🙂 http://t.co/g45wUGVV # When a girl's mom disappears, she's supposed to do something about it. http://t.co/hr6WU2Ba Stories for kids with attitude. Exotics #1 # Plotting another Theornin story…involving a pun about mountains. # Theornin story drafted. No songs included. # Editing for Indie Writers:

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Book Review: Thunderbird, by Deb Logan

**** Excellent. The book has two narrators, a boy and a girl, both with fun stories. Abut 150 pages.   Thunderbird by Deb Logan In short: Twins Janine and Justin are stuck at their father’s dinosaur-digging camp for the summer.  While most kids would be thrilled, they’ve seen it all before.  However, when Janine is

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