Tag: writers
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Writing Seminar
By P.C. Zick – @PCZick I’ve been so busy promoting my new e-book, Live from the Road, I have not had time to bask in the afterglow of my first writing workshop in five years. Here’s what one of the participants had to say: “I wanted to thank Patricia Zick for hosting an amazing writing…
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The More I Learn, the Less I Know
By P.C. Zick – @PCZick I’m in a very high learning curve these days as I prepare to publish my first e-book, Live from the Road. Every time I read an article, I find one more thing I need to do. Yesterday I probably sifted through a dozen new things to add to my list.…
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Write that Novel
“If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.” — Dashiell Hammett June 1924 Love this quote. Rachel Carson once said the writer…
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Important Message for Writers
By P.C. Zick – @PCZick I highly recommend all writers read this blog by Rachelle Gardner. She’s an agent with Books and Such Literary Agency and her blog is a great source for published and unpublished authors. Her advice is valuable for self-published and traditionally published authors. It’s also a resource for unpublished writers trying…
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Less is More – The Writing Oxymoron
“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.” —Stephen King, November 1973 By P.C. Zick – @PCZick A…
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Writing at Home Alone
By P.C. Zick – @PCZick I woke up grumpy today. I slept well, but the alarm going off at 6 a.m. really ticked me off. I let my husband sleep for a few more minutes while I made coffee, still grumpy. I came back to bed and couldn’t get the covers up around me because…
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Cross Creek Sojourn
By P.C. Zick – @PCZick Cross Creek was immortalized in the movie of the same name in 1983. The small village exists on the banks of Orange Lake in North Florida amid the hanging Spanish moss and spirits of those who once called the Creek their home. Two women whose photographs grace a hallway in…
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Writers Write – It’s as Simple as That
By P.C. Zick – @PCZick It’s a rainy April morning in Pittsburgh. If I was starting a novel that would be a boring first line, unless it was followed by this sentence: “The wet ground made it difficult to drag the body from the house to the woods without leaving tracks.” But this isn’t the…
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