Archive for the 'Suicide: A Mother’s Story' Category
My Writing Future
Yesterday, I listed fourteen novel length manuscripts that I have at various stages. Fourteen! When added together, that is some word count! Not to mention all the edits and rewrites.
I guess I can safely say the ideas are there. Some of the manuscripts were started many, many years ago and have […]
Posted by: Scribe on Sunday, 22 Jun 2008
My Writing Past
Previously, I’ve mainly written fantasy. I have manuscripts suitable for all ages. However, I specifically concentrated on children’s books – 8 to 12 years of age – over recent years. The only time I ventured into other genres were for short stories, although one of my first novel length manuscripts is romance […]
Posted by: Scribe on Saturday, 21 Jun 2008
Book: Introduction
This weekend I wrote the introduction to my non-fiction project – Suicide: A Mother’s Story. I want the first paragraph to be quite powerful. It has to grab the reader and pull them right in (this is essential for any reader, but especially so if the reader is an editor of a […]
Posted by: Scribe on Sunday, 11 Mar 2007
Reflections on Blogging
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 […]
Posted by: Scribe on Wednesday, 28 Feb 2007
Failure and Success
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 […]
Posted by: Scribe on Wednesday, 14 Feb 2007
Non-Fiction: The First Steps
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 […]
Posted by: Scribe on Friday, 9 Feb 2007
Juggling Projects
After several days of research, I’ve discovered that there’s not much information on writing non-fiction to be found on the internet…unless you don’t mind paying for it.
Yes, there is information, but not the kind of information I really want, like how to plan. (If you have links you would like to share, please feel […]
Posted by: Scribe on Wednesday, 7 Feb 2007
Why Write Non-Fiction
Several websites dealing with non-fiction tips ask the same question “why do you want to write the book?” I’ve had several writing friends ask me the same question (not in the “you shouldn’t be doing this” sense). Some people have said that it will take a lot of energy and strength; others have […]
Posted by: Scribe on Tuesday, 6 Feb 2007