Blogging, when we first start it, is addictive. Instead of writing or planning a story, we spend much of the day writing and planning our next post in our heads. There’s so much to say and not enough time to say it.
Or so we think.
As the days turn into weeks, and the weeks [...]

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With 19,232 words already edited, and only three chapters to go, I’m doing extremely well with the edit of Cat’s Paw. Having said that, the next three chapters are going to be, by far, the hardest chapters to work on. I wrote them at the end of NaNoWriMo and didn’t put the same [...]

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I must be getting old, because I really don’t know how Technorati works. I’m not sure what happened, but I found myself there tonight. I signed in - after many long months - and discovered the blog I had “claimed” had the old url. In my efforts to fix this little issue, [...]

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Yesterday, my in-laws left Sydney and went on a half-world cruise. This is something they have been planning for two years. The family went to the city to see them off.
The boat – the Oriana – was enormous. In all honesty, I’ve never seen anything like it. The largest ferries in [...]

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Well, what can I say? I discovered the pages that were lost when I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 were not lost after all, they were converted to posts. I’ve found all of the former Links pages, maybe I’ll find all the other pages I lost as well.
Every evening I’ve spent some time going [...]

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It seems the procedure for non-fiction isn’t the same as fiction.
With fiction, a writer spends many months writing, editing and proofing the manuscript until they get it to the best of their ability. Then they send out queries and hopefully receive a request to submit.
With non-fiction, a writer spends months [...]

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An impulsive act of a friend saw this book bobbing it’s way over the wide ocean from America to Australia at the end of last year. The byline of this book is “for everyone who has been hurt by life…”
The author, a rabbi by the name of Harold S Kushner, wrote this book because [...]

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Editing the second chapter of Cat’s Paw has been no easy task. It is where the majority of the changes take place and I found it extremely difficult to introduce those changes and keep the same flow.
Shape shifting, loss of power, a mother’s well being, and not to mention a good reason for giving [...]

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Finally, I’ve found information on writing non-fiction that is written by an author with credentials that look impressive…and she has been published by a number of main stream publishers too.
Jenna Glatzer started a thread in the Absolute Write Forums called Learn The Nonfiction Book Publication Process With Momma Jenna.
Below is an abbreviation of the questions [...]

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Whilst researching non-fiction, I found this article called And Now for the Sequel…Writing Series Fiction for Children by Nikki Tate.
It’s interesting to read the thoughts of this writer, because they echo my own thoughts in so many ways, even though I made up my own mind before reading it elsewhere. I like how this [...]

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