YA author Rayne Lacko tells how falling in love with the colorful speech patterns of the American Southwest helped her shape her novel A Song for the Road. When I charted an epic road trip across the American Southwest for Carter Danforth, ...
A couple of months ago I discovered a new text to speech tool called Voicepods. When I first tried it and wrote about it Voicepods would only create voice recordings based on text that you wrote. This week Voicepods launched a free Chrome e...
I can’t speak for the Welsh or in their language, but I am not aware that anyone in the UK would simply say “air-plane”. There is always that extra vowel noise between those two words although it is difficult to define wha...
If I’m publishing short-stories to the internet, or in book format with self-publishing, than I’ll have to be my own editor. If I am forced to employ self-publishing, because editors and publishers don’t like the way I wan...
I have a cheat sheet that I use when I get caught in a bind onhow a voice should sound. Hope it helps. : Hola! You can call me J.This blog was created in the hopes that I could help out the writers of Tumblr. It will consist of helpful rebl...
The ‘otherworld’ is my main interest and though I’ll admit a large part of this is escapism, the exploration of an ‘ideal’ realm, I’m also interested in thresholds and the interaction of the fantastic wit...
Hey folks. I did a quick search and it doesn’t appear the following has been shared before. Here is an essay written by George Orwell. A guideline for preventing common errors in written language. I have found it very helpful: Politic...
With school ending and the global pandemic in full effect, it’s getting extremely hard to stay focused. This simple and easy-to-implement system will take you less than 15 minutes and help you get more done, be more productive, and lessen...
Today we have another entry received for the Writers Forum 2020 Short Story Contest. Since the contest judges are supposed to be judging the entries without knowing who wrote them, the author’s names will be withheld until after the w...
I didn’t get much out of my previous experience with writing coach. It was profoundly disappointing after struggling to explain my story and trying to articulate the multiple issues I felt with the process I was given suggestions where st...