Tag: writing

• Week 18: The Next Big Thing Blog Hop

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I’m participating in my first blog hop, and I hope you’ll join me on this journey as we blog hop our way through some new reads. A blog hop gives readers an opportunity to find some wonderful authors you might have missed. Be sure to follow our blog hop and be…

  P. C. Zick

  October 24, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

  amazon.com, authors, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, e-book, editing, editors, fiction, healing, Karen White, Kathleen Heady, Live from the Road, love, novel, Pat Conroy, publishing, recovery, revising, sea turtle eggs, sea turtles, southern families, writers, writing

• Remembering the Moment

    By Patricia Zick @PCZick I watched a documentary recently about pursuing a dream. The Back Nine revealed much more than the story of one man going for the impossible. The piece chronicles the life of Jon Fitzgerald, who at the age of forty decides to pursue his dream of playing professional golf. Almost everyone,…

  P. C. Zick

  October 19, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace

  authors, Back Nine, documentary, golf, novel, writers, writing, writing flow

• The Wise Writer Does Not Make the Oprah Angry

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When I began my writing career, somewhere in the back on my mind I still held the romantic vision of myself typing on a manual typewriter lost all day in the world I would create on the page. If only. When my first novel came out in 2000, my publisher wrote…

  P. C. Zick

  October 12, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, fiction, James Frey, lighthouse, memoir, nonfiction, novel, Oprah, publishing, St. Augustine, writers, writing

• Tenacity = Writer

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick We found this tree while driving through the Rocky Mountains. Its tap roots must be very long in order to find water through the rocks. This aspen tree demonstrates the qualities of tenacity. The word tenacious comes from the Latin tenac, which means “tending to hold fast.” Synonyms for tenacity include…

  P. C. Zick

  October 5, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  aspen tree, astrological signs, capricorn, career, Colorado, tenacity, writers, writing

• Versatile Blogger Award

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick This week my blog Writing Tips, Thoughts, and Whims was nominated twice for the Versatile Blogger award by two bloggers I greatly admire. Thank you, So Much To Write, So Little Time and 365 Things to Wrote About. If you don’t follow them already, visit their site. I think you’ll be…

  P. C. Zick

  October 3, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace, Uncategorized

  blogs, versatile blogger, writers, writing, writing blogs

• Revising – Dread then Joy

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I finished the second draft of my new novel Trails in the Sand before leaving on a trip to Denver two weeks ago. I like to have deadlines like that because once you leave a novel for a few days, it’s almost like starting over again. Since the incubation period is a…

  P. C. Zick

  September 26, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, editing, environment, fiction, nature, novel, protagonist, revision, story, writers, writers write, writing

• Following the Muse

    By Patricia Zick @PCZick Sometimes the muse leads us where we need to go. In early 2002, I was working on a novel set on the Suwanee River. I was also a reporter for  a 5,000 circulation weekly newspaper in north Florida. I covered one of the more contentious city commissions as WalMart began…

  P. C. Zick

  September 21, 2012

  Books by P. C. Zick, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, bomb, bomb squad, commission meeting, fiction, Kindle, muse, newspaper, novel, reporter, WalMart, writing

• Incubating a Novel

  “Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.” Larry L. King By Patricia Zick @PCZick My new novel is incubating. I finished the complete first draft in February. I gave it over to two beta readers who sent back their comments and suggestions in May. In the meantime, I read.…

  P. C. Zick

  September 14, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  beta readers, editing, fiction, first draft, Kindle, novel, point of view, rewrite, second draft, Trails in the Sand, writers, writing

• “Once a Upon a Time” is thankfully in the past

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Note: I wrote this column about publishing my first novel in 2000. Times have changed and after re-reading this piece and remembering, I’m happy they have. Viva la revolution! All I ever wanted to do was write, but I kept that knowledge to myself as I went to college and then…

  P. C. Zick

  September 12, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  Ann Arbor, book signings, bookstores, fiction, Michigan, novel, writers, writing

• Patti Smith Just Rocks

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Just Kids chronicles the rising star of poet Patti Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, two free spirits let loose in New York City in the late ‘60s. Patti is the kind of artist I always longed to be: cool and free. My fear of rejection kept me from stepping off my…

  P. C. Zick

  September 5, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace, Writing Ideas

  fiction, Just Kids, memoir, New York City, Patti Smith, poet, Robert Mapplethorpe, writing