by Elizabeth | Jul 31, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Five Things We Avoid That We’d Do Better To Embrace 1) Verbs: Make things happen in your sentences. Be alert for “There is/ are/ were” and “I felt/ heard/ saw/ noticed.” These usually can be cut and replaced with verbs, further into the heart of the sentence, that...
by Devi S. Laskar | Jul 27, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Events, Featured, Uncategorized
All current members of the Book Writing World (anyone currently enrolled in any BWW class or group) are invited to a Q & A with Thaisa Frank on 5-6p.m. (PST), Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, to kick off the Fall quarter. Thaisa Frank is author of the novel, Heidegger’s...
by Angie Powers | Jul 27, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Ah, revision. It is a difficult thing and also a splendid thing. See my previous post if you want to see the original version of the piece I wrote and will now begin to revise. In the meantime, let me tell you what my marinating and letting it go has made me think....
by Devi S. Laskar | Jul 26, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
You want to find the very best editor for your own work? Someone who can give it the ‘fine tuning’ it deserves before it goes out into the world? Look no further than the mirror, baby. It is easy enough to develop an editor’s eye, to be ruthless with your own work....
by Devi S. Laskar | Jul 25, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
You could say that I may be starting to saturate on the “once a day” philosophy. I’m hard at work on the second year of the “365-art-a-day challenge” where I’m now either submitting two photos that I’ve taken, or I’m submitting two pieces of art that I’ve drawn,...
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