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The Furlow Writing Lab: Most Useful Tips for Authors
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The Furlow Writing Lab. A conversation on book writing hosted by Two-for-One Editing. Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Most Useful Tips for Authors. Lots of writers share their best tips or rules, and here's a very good list from Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander. And a writing prof at USC. Some of her ideas are different, such as "torture your protagonist." If you're interested in becoming a better fiction writer, take a look. 1 Write the sentence, not just the story. 2 Pick a better verb. 3 Kill the cliché.
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The Furlow Writing Lab: November 2010
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The Furlow Writing Lab. A conversation on book writing hosted by Two-for-One Editing. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Bore-geous for Bore-geous's Sake. Novelist Ayelet Waldman discusses a problem nearly all writers have in an excellent little piece in the Nov. 27 Wall Street Journal (Beware the Trap of ‘Bore-geous’ Writing). To quote Waldman further:. 8220;When rewriting, I inevitably find passages that aren’t necessary. To the plot…Usually I’m convinced that these passages are among. Move the story along, p...
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The Furlow Writing Lab: Inspiration for Beginning a Book
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The Furlow Writing Lab. A conversation on book writing hosted by Two-for-One Editing. Friday, February 4, 2011. Inspiration for Beginning a Book. In a recent post, we mentioned that author John Irving said it often takes him seven months to a year to develop the first sentence of a novel. Read this opening to Mother Jones: Miners' Angel. For inspiration in how to begin a book. Posted by Bill and Davilynn Furlow. Clare Marie Kronemeyer, AKBD. February 4, 2011 at 2:49 PM. February 4, 2011 at 3:08 PM.
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Great Books Under $5: April 2011
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Great Books Under $5. Books reviewed. Authors discovered. Money saved. Thursday, April 28, 2011. 399 at Smashwords.com. Okay, I admit it. I’m a sucker for dogs, for books about dogs, for magazines that sell dog stuff, for just about anything doggie. Scooter’s a bit freaked out, but what choice does he have. He tells the SPCA lady that he wants this cute black puppy with white fur on her chest. Her name is Gabriella, but Scooter, in his macho beach guy best, tells the pup (yes, the pup herse...Scooter is ...
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Great Books Under $5: Our Latest Recommendation
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Great Books Under $5. Books reviewed. Authors discovered. Money saved. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. We're offering something a little different this month. Rather than our usual fare of undiscovered authors who deserve to be read, we've selected an old hand who deserves to be remembered. To be honest, as Bill searched the Web for a newly published book calling out to be read, he just didn't find it. Instead he came across Robert Daley's The Enemy of God. In reviewing The Enemy of God,. Our Recommendations - ...
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Great Books Under $5: The Friendship of Mortals
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Great Books Under $5. Books reviewed. Authors discovered. Money saved. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. The Friendship of Mortals. 495 at Smashwords.com. Herbert West is as ambitious and narcissistic as any character you’re ever likely to meet in literature. His compulsion is not treasure or glory but a seemingly impossible intellectual challenge. Herbert West wants to find the way to restore human life to those who have lost it. Now a physician with a growing reputation as a surgeon, West surprisingly volunteer...
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Great Books Under $5: Monster Story
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Great Books Under $5. Books reviewed. Authors discovered. Money saved. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. 499 on Smashwords.com. Monster Story is a modern-day werewolf story. Please don’t stop reading now if you are not a horror, supernatural or science fiction fan. I’m not either, but author McCarty Griffin sent an email to our blog, www.greatbooksunder5.blogspot.com and asked if we would review Monster Story. The story takes place in Appalachia, and Griffin does a good job of describing the area. She also ha...
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The Furlow Writing Lab: Grammatical Errors That Aren't
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The Furlow Writing Lab. A conversation on book writing hosted by Two-for-One Editing. Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Grammatical Errors That Aren't. Here is an excerpt from an excellent piece by Mark Nichol on the Web site Daily Writing Tips. These are four of seven grammar fallacies he shattered. I found these the most compelling. 7 Grammatical Errors That Aren’t. 1 Never split an infinitive. It isn’t wise to always ignore this fallacious rule against dividing the elements of the verb phrase “...The stric...
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The Furlow Writing Lab: A Word Best Forgotten
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The Furlow Writing Lab. A conversation on book writing hosted by Two-for-One Editing. Thursday, December 16, 2010. A Word Best Forgotten. Here’s another little writing tip that was inspired by a discussion from a LinkedIn group we belong to. The question posted was, “Are ‘compose’ and ‘comprise’ interchangeable? Bill’s response to the posted question was to advise writers to leave “comprise” alone and never use it. Used incorrectly it’s annoying, and used correctly it is awkwa...One person responding to ...
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The Furlow Writing Lab: February 2011
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The Furlow Writing Lab. A conversation on book writing hosted by Two-for-One Editing. Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Grammatical Errors That Aren't. Here is an excerpt from an excellent piece by Mark Nichol on the Web site Daily Writing Tips. These are four of seven grammar fallacies he shattered. I found these the most compelling. 7 Grammatical Errors That Aren’t. 1 Never split an infinitive. It isn’t wise to always ignore this fallacious rule against dividing the elements of the verb phrase “...The stric...