by Zoe M. McCarthy | Dec 25, 2014 | Writing
“A launch party gives an author the chance to be surrounded by her village as a book makes its debut.” —Holly Robinson Recently I posted Part 1 with a checklist of tasks to consider for a local book launch party. For an example, here’s mine with some tips....
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 30, 2014 | Writing
“I write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.” — Miranda Lambert Why is it important to include our personal stories in some way in our writing? Well, few can imagine catching a sailfish better than a person who actually landed one. When...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 23, 2014 | Writing
“You can’t relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.” — Timothy Dalton Recently, I read about people...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Aug 14, 2014 | Writing
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero In an earlier post, I talked about squeezing by-products from your creative work. This time it’s squeezing by-products from others’ creative work, i.e. their books. I...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Aug 7, 2014 | Writing
“Most people have no idea of the gigantic capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.” —Anthony Robbins We could drown in all the resources available to improve the writing of our novels. But we can...
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