Robert E. Howard was one of the greatest pulp fiction writers. He created Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja, and was a contemporary of HP Lovecraft. (1930s)
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Writing Festival Friday #4 – The Muse Conference Week!
What an incredible week we’ve been having thanks to author Lea Schizas and her wonderful presenters at The Muse Conference! This is the online writing conference’s second year. It has been overwhelming – like swimming in an ocean of knowledge about writing, trying to pick up tips and ideas, here and there. I’ve met a lot of wonderful people, won one door prize (thanks, Hope Clark!), and tried to take in way more information than I really had time for.
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Writing Festival Friday #3
It is still Friday in California, where I live. At 8:58 pm, I know that in many parts of the world it’s already Saturday. I didn’t put this week’s Writing Festival Friday online this morning for two reasons. One was that I had to go into work early this morning, so I was a bit rushed. The other was that the person who won last Wednesday’s drawing hasn’t sent back the interview yet.
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Writing Festival Friday #2 – Featuring Donna Alice Patton
Welcome to the second edition of Writing Festival Friday, a blog event where you can connect with other writers, promote your books and blogs, and possibly become the featured writer next Friday. It is easy to participate. Just leave a comment to this article, telling us about yourself, your writing, and whatever else you want us to know. Please include your site and blog links if you have any. Writers of all genres are welcome to join in.
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Three Things A Writer Should Have
There are three things every writer should have:
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Writing Festival Friday – #1
This is the first edition of my new blog event: Writing Festival Friday . Using the comment section for this post, all writers are welcome to post links to their sites, information about their current writing projects, or anything else that will help promote their writing careers. Tell us about yourselves, and what we can expect when we read your writing.
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Next Friday – The First Writing Festival Friday at Perspectives on Writing
Next Friday I’m starting something new. I’m calling it Writing Festival Friday. It will be a day when writers can come here and leave their links to their websites, books, blogs or whatever they want to share. Links in comments should become good back-links for publicity-seeking webmasters and writers.
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Dreams: An Inspiration For Writing
Every now and then we have dreams that could be good inspiration for a short story or novel. However dreams, like all thoughts, are fleeting. These inspirations must be written down immediately in a writer’s notebook, in as much detail as possible.
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Making Time for Writing
Lately I’ve been running from work to appointments, to errands, to classes. Where has my writing time gone? When I sit at my computer a thousand tasks confront me. Seems like the workload has increased while my time decreased.
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Blogging and Creative Writing
Today I’m participating in Getting To Know You by answering the following questions about my blogging experiences and how they relate to creative writing.
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Writing With Wings
I am the pilot. My writing is the airplane. I am responsible for take offs and landings, and for the direction my writing will take.
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