Premeditating Writer

I regularly follow other writers and bloggers blogs. The following links will lead you to discover several interesting points that could help you discover a great deal. So pull a chair over, bring your cup of coffee with you and enjoy the learning ride...
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware, she discusses an article written by literary agent Betsy Lerner. "Should I Tweet?"
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2010/11/tidbits.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtLastWriterBewareBlogsAcCrispinAndVictoriaStraussRevealAll+%28Writer+Beware+Blogs%21%29

What makes readers have a hard time putting the book down at the end of each chapter? Novelist Randy Ingermanson writes about cliffhangers. Great tips here.
http://pattistafford.com/blog/2010/11/writing-cliffhangers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreelanceWriterMusiciansWife-PattiStafford+%28Stafford+Scribe%3A+Write+What+You+Love%29

In this blog Terry Burns, an agent with Hartline Literary, discusses when NOT to make inflated claims about your book. Self promotion is good, but make sure you work is totally polishede.
So here is  Agent Terry Burns On: When NOT To Stand Out From the Crowd
https://mail.google.com/mail/?nsr=1&shva=1#inbox/12c682cabdfd1db7

The following is an excerpt from my book: Blow Forward


Amid stamped his feet to the ground, and tried to think about anything else other than the chill that gnawed at his bones. He chose to forgo making the dawn Salat for fear that kneeling in the parking lot would draw unwanted attention. Instead, he opted to practice the Sunna; exempting him from bodily prayer when traveling far from home. He made it internally instead.

The world was subject to change, more precisely, to extinctions. It coincided with one of his basic beliefs that a man at all cost must keep a part of himself beyond life. But Amid was plagued by the suspicion that at any moment he would discover he had been wrong. He pushed away all the dark thoughts from his head, realizing he was ready to begin his Jihad. If he should cease believing, he would be cut off from the solid ground to which he had clung for so long. But there was another voice in his head, less confident.

Amid thought of his son, then. Soon, he would get the best care money could buy. His boy would need many surgeries to continue some kind of a normal life. There were no guarantees of course.

He’d grown up in a small town fifty-miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan, where donkeys and carts and people converged and surged in every which direction, where houses were small, patched together out of stone and metal, where dust was everywhere. The neighborhood he’d lived in his youth had disappeared in ashes and smoke, replaced by skeletons of homes where stray dogs roamed and where scary looking teenagers, with machine guns pointing in the air, made their home.

Reasonably fluent in four languages, prone to obsessive dedication, he was blessed with good looks. And there was his wife and children, his loyal wife who gave her blessings before he left. His family saw him off, but he said almost nothing. He was accustomed to leaving things behind. At the training camp he had to leave behind his identity, possessions, and even his name. It was yet another in a long series of good-byes, and he knew that this time he might not return, that what he had to do was necessary

Writing Body Language is a wonderful way to inject movement and punctuate mood into your story. I am a firm believer in paying close attention to my characters and signaling to the reader what they feel without having to actually spell it out.



Juliette Wade wrote a great blog about it, far better than I could.
TalkToYoUniverse: Body language: are there clichés?

Body language is a wonderful way to inject movement and punctuate mood into your story. I am a firm believer in paying close attention to my characters and signaling to the reader what they feel without having to tell them that. Juliette Wade wrote a blog just about that. She said it better than I ever could.

Here is her link:
http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/body-language-are-there-cliches.html?showComment=1287598518634_AIe9_BHOnYOy_UD9ETllTO2aVbpWAQ8hQDpAMCXAGHQ2J73DmkYNZHHYn9MQ0Jb8nM17OOGl8ORA7T_9W_dA772TFKFXnAD7oP58MkNl7bkkRo3yetksmeBEDhPlFABU0ts50rTQDsa9bPwQUCU1dnifb23F5WsphsJySceOjmnP9SXbYMgDuww7gdKx_pHzkalHo4mN8Lo-nsK9NH7G35q5tZZDTg9oTv_Gjhm2qaHFxmqXIwHx9eqX8xh8-8rnZIdM6_u4jJhRHYV8KYBWIyrcScZ31yR_X-h0YvWMr2yqkIQLJzIsn9k0yKqcD1WuDpTKZ4Suz8S67AzgZRJ3XRtKDVp8sbxfjFwQdKylUU574jqIsyTO0dFSkMwJ-s74DpvkEeAyU4lB45ZqYX3NwlYgks2zCdnioXqpW7dzKVqcOAtC9rXt5yaIdVBh4IJHNGOf-bslbgpmDMXWQPszwRqOe0AZCJY-7J98WWgRMBtcuHW80KM0MAO84oOPT5aOCmKESzyzXaw-jkUFU-pdn_Rb2x1ugwbwjflEUnGEcykngUYyV0YOXWtX2tDT7FcaKdwq88x8BKHYlVtbLOcyUpvvLHWcqUxXUivEE7xm7fcMk1XI3gpS4Rbfgl8UprSB5XvMY7zztDkKRNxokJwozSSp1CCfdL6x8S0vgIGDxauOkQwr2gKSSaT2n_6uu_22TX-_rFfxVlAVv-_imfWjY8uZCo-5xaV3UzpXVwDgXx0TZC1hjWhPHlq1FDsLGHt7QXBmMHYcRSZzNB53ThSohZT568NcGEqtnioOIFVfsasvmE4R9JdI0AdqAC0015r_uT-2TSOxDe-TCSwb4pwnaITbiqcPPCqhBBof3lkHKcCyYpHZL8qRuVI#c6095124915810326360

It peaked in the Berkshires this weekend. The trip lasts about three hours to get there from Manhattan. Under normal circumstances, I'd have little endurance for spending such a long time cooped up inside of a car. But this trip is worth it. Once we get out of the city, the topography is breathtaking. Each season brings with it the miracle of nature.



Here is a small sample of what I see out of my car's window.

If you want to become a better writer, the following link will take you to a great blog Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware.

http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2010/09/guest-blog-post-how-deliberate-practice.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtLastWriterBewareBlogsAcCrispinAndVictoriaStraussRevealAll+%28Writer+Beware+Blogs%21%29

The beauty that resides in the words you string together equals that in which you find in nature.