Tag: novel
group name: novelistsonly
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January 15, 2007 09:52 PM EST --
Kael could not accept what his eyes were telling him. A great eagle head was protruding from his chest! His whole torso seemed to be totally immersed in a blinding light. The light began to spread until . . .
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January 26, 2008 09:35 PM EST --
Shortly after submitting the first chapter of my novel in the Next Great Crime Writer Contest, I wondered just how good (or not so good) a former Gather.com . . .
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November 30, 2007 03:32 PM EST --
As you may already know, Terry Shaw’s novel won a contest here on Gather.com earlier this year. The contest itself was a test of faith - for everyone involved - in their work. Because there . . .
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September 16, 2007 05:43 PM EDT --
something i am working on, feedback is appreciated? up to and including trashing the entire thing...thanks!
under revision~
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January 30, 2007 09:50 PM EST --
The following I am either currently reading or have read recently.
Michael Cunningham's The Hours; Specimen Days, which are highly intuitive and well written
James Baldwin's Another Country; . . .
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January 13, 2007 01:43 AM EST --
Hello all! Thank's for checking out Novelists Only! Sorry it's not too exciting just yet, but please bear with me as I am new to Gather, in the middle of writing my first novel, and busy . . .
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March 17, 2007 09:16 AM EDT --
I get the impression from some people that they don't necessarily know how to read when they complain about even the slightest use of the passive voice in the work of others.
One author who wrote . . .
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June 27, 2008 06:04 PM EDT --
The comma is probably the most commonly used punctuation mark in the English language. Or maybe it's second after the period; I'm not sure. But I think I can say with certainty that it's the . . .
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September 03, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
I've always wanted to be a novelist and thanks to everyone here at Gather, Simon & Schuster/Touchstone is releasing my first book Sep. 18.
"The Way Life Should Be" is . . .
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February 01, 2008 01:58 AM EST --
Yesterday I posted a listing of sites I had saved in my email about Mystery Writing Resources. Today I'm passing on some sites about Self-Editing. These are all things many of us know, but they . . .
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February 12, 2007 05:33 PM EST --
I've come across a few important things toward editing my novel. Though not too many people stumble upon my articles or leave comments when they visit them, I thought this advice may come in handy . . .
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June 19, 2008 02:07 PM EDT --
The Dialogue Bog
The dialogue bog is where many beginning fiction writers seem to get caught. It's a set of common dialogue problems that mark you as an amateur. They're easy mistakes . . .
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June 22, 2008 08:58 PM EDT --
In my earlier post 22 Reasons Not To Trust Spell-Check , I gave you a test: Replace each (?) with the appropriate word from the following list.
I know (?) no way that Porsche could be (?). . . .
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June 23, 2008 04:54 PM EDT --
In the last post I offered you a challenge: to type the word 'til in MS Word . . . with a properly curving apostrophe. If you tried it, you probably typed 'til (note the mark is actually . . .
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September 30, 2007 11:26 PM EDT --
Today I re-editied my novel, Maven Fairy Godmother, (97k words, 490 pages) and submitted it to the Authorwise contest. I am glad I did the re-edit. I found words missin, repeated paragraphs and several . . .
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February 10, 2008 08:53 PM EST --
Ever mix dinner with a discussion of bones, bodies and fire?
That's what we did Friday night in Knoxville.
But don't worry. It was for a good cause -- a fundraiser for the Friends of Literacy. . . .
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November 11, 2007 11:25 AM EST --
See the bottom of the article for updated information!
Back in September during the First Chapters Romance competition, three of our friends from the Writin' Wombats banded together . . .
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November 12, 2008 12:47 PM EST --
Fall is in the air! The holidays are near, along with all of the hectic shopping, cooking, and entertaining! So why not relax with a free e-book?
That's right, I'm holding . . .
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February 19, 2008 04:25 AM EST --
The other night I actually got to be rather early - or at least early for me. I fell asleep fairly fast which isn't typical for me and slept well.
Well, that is until I woke up four hours later . . .
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June 01, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
Tommy was still shaken from his encounter out at sea with what would become the most intense storm of this season so far, he imagined. He had always been a practical guy, searching for the . . .
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