You can see why I put this under the revision topic, I’m revising my post of Gator McBumpypants’ first movie. Why didn’t I think of this yesterday? So, how did I do it? It was much easier than I thought. When I clicked on Add Media above my draft’s text box, like I usually doContinue reading “Revision: Adding Videos to Your Blog”
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Revision: Exploring my characters’ motivations
I love playing with simple photo editing software. All of those fabulous colors were in my photo just waiting for me to draw them out–slough off a bit of brightness, delete a bit of shadow, redefine the contrast and saturate the hues. Now, to apply the same principal (drawing out the good stuff) to myContinue reading “Revision: Exploring my characters’ motivations”
Agent Query Progress
For once, I felt I was making some progress in my search to find agents to query. Then, the moment I was sure I had found someone and would get my first query letter out today, to my complete horror, her blog said she wasn’t accepting queries at this time. I clicked back to herContinue reading “Agent Query Progress”
Busy Writer’s Life Update: Gator McBumpypants 2 and searching for an agent
I can’t seem to stick to my goal of a weekly blog, but I’ll keep trying. However, while I’ve been neglecting this blog, my writing life has been very busy indeed. First, I’ve finished the text and taken the pictures for the second book in my Gator McBumpypants series. I’m pretty sure I’ll stick withContinue reading “Busy Writer’s Life Update: Gator McBumpypants 2 and searching for an agent”
Getting Words on the Page – Three Tools to Increase Productivity
It’s almost time for me to print out the rough draft of my novel, to read through the whole thing with fresh eyes, as if I just brought it home from the bookstore. But first, I have a few more goals to accomplish: I WILL finish reading Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (I was bornContinue reading “Getting Words on the Page – Three Tools to Increase Productivity”
Exploring the Senses – Finale: Using sensory information in your writing
Through this series on exploring the senses we (you and I) have explored all the major senses and more. We’ve experimented with how sensual stimuli trigger memories that can inspire writing and played with different ways to add sensory detail to our writing. Now, I want to talk about when and how to use thisContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – Finale: Using sensory information in your writing”
Exploring the Senses – The Sixth Sense
Though everyone agrees on the five major senses, neurologists and perception researchers believe there are more. Some think the main senses should be broken into sub-genres. Others believe we have many sensory cell types leading to other senses including: balance, pain, temperature, time, body part location, and sensing internal organs. However, when we talk aboutContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – The Sixth Sense”
Exploring the Senses – Touch
Touch is a sense most of us take for granted – until we’re lying on satin sheets, or picking glass and gravel out of a knee – but touch is sensed through the skin which is the largest organ of our human bodies. The sense of touch is based on detection of mechanical energy, orContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – Touch”
Exploring the Senses – Taste
Smell and taste are frequently stimulated together. The smell of food, for instance, greatly enhances its flavor. However, taste is a distinct sense from smell and should not be overlooked when describing your characters’ sensory perceptions. There are five well recognized types of taste receptors. These sensations are categorized as sweet, bitter, salty, sour andContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – Taste”
Exploring the Senses – Olfaction: The Sense of Smell
The sense of smell, more than any of the other senses, can trigger strong emotional memories. The olfactory system is physically wired for it. Unlike the other sensory pathways, the olfactory bulb has a direct connection to the amygdala (emotion) and hippocampus (memory consolidation). When you want to trigger your fictional character’s memory, you mayContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – Olfaction: The Sense of Smell”
Experience Writing 