Your readers have.
Yep, that’s right, they pay attention. If you write a scene where your hero unknowingly slices off somebody’s head because your hero swung his sword the wrong way they’re going to call you on it.
I enjoy writing that contains action scenes and I think about them a lot when I put one together.
by Peggy BechkoIt’s about time we talked about the kids.
Kids write too. Some quite well, others just trying their hand at the craft.
Sometimes we forget. I don’t know how many of you out there began writing at an early age, but I was about 12. Managed to write an entire novella without describing hardly a thing! Quite an accomplishment that. Thank heavens for a Godmother who read my work and pointed out that little failing.
by Peggy BechkoHad a computer crisis this past week that pretty much shut down my writing and couldn’t do a whole lot since the work I was in the middle of was on the computer. So I cleaned up the office, read, made a few notes and couldn’t help but take some of that extra time to refocus from being irritated with the whole computer thing and contemplate some aspects of my writing career.
One that popped to mind was taking a break from writing (since I was ‘enjoying’ just such an enforced break at the moment).
You might say “I’m a writer! I write every day! I don’t take no stinkin breaks! I’m a writer!” (yep, with all those exclamation points)
Hmm, well, sit back, relax, take a mini break and read on.
There really are times to take a break.
Have a lot to do? I know I do.
But in the spirit of procrastination I do find time to wander the web a bit between projects and I came across a rather long post (the equivalent of three pages with – oh horrors – no illustrations) on how to write a writer’s ‘to do’ list and manage it.
Over time I’ve done a lot of blog posts, guesting at some sites, creating posts for my own blog. You know, trying to toss out little helps, hints, website links that are fun and helpful for writers and readers. It’s fun and believe it or not it actually adds to my own writing, bolstering it in a way I can’t really explain.
The flip side of writing blogs is reading them. And I follow quite a few. Some make me smile, others are informative, some give me heartburn and others inspire while still others manage a weird combination. I enjoy blogs, squeeze in reading them at lunch with my Kindle online, sometimes late in the evening before bed, sometimes on the move when traveling from one place to another (no, now while I’m actually driving!); on a train, plane (hanging out in an airport actually) or as a passenger.
Why am I telling you all this? Simple, really, I was reading a friend’s blog (a friend I met in cyberspace who’s become quite the blogger) Seumas Gallacher (his blog is over at http://seumasgallacher.com/ and he made the point of how valuable it is for bloggers to share with others which blogs out there are great to read. He even started up a hashtag over on twitter #TBSU for The Blog Scratchers Union as a way of bloggers promoting bloggers who have something real to say.