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Friday tips
Writing is a truly personal thing. You end up pouring yourself into the page. Often you don’t get anything back except misunderstanding and criticism. It can be incredibly draining. It really can.
However there are some bright points to it as well. As any writer can tell you… Sometimes it is just a case of seeing what is in your head on paper.
So, when the words aren’t flowing…When the muse is flipping you the bird, the best thing to do is step back. Pick something else to write and come back to this. Or if you are too frayed to write pick another activity all together… Even if it is a nap. The mind is a muscle. Overextending it will only exhaust you faster.
Options to relax the mind include (but are different for each person) :
- Meditation
- Art
- Cooking
- Listen to music
- Watch television
- Crafting
- Cleaning
- Napping
- Go for a drive
- Go to a park.
Pick something that you know relaxes your mind. Return to the story relaxed and writing will likely go easier.
Thursday Tea Party
Hi all! Pull up a seat! So much on my mind… I am a wee bit squirrel brained lately. All that it takes to distract me is a shiny object in my side view.
First… I want to express my grief at the sad demise of Grant Thompson. He was way too young to die. *a moment of silence *😭
Now, I think that I promised a Tea recommendation? I love tea. Homemade, store-bought, hot or iced. I prefer sweet, but anymore I settle for adding splenda. One of my favorite store-bought teas are Stash Black Chai Spice. I prepare it with half milk and half water and it is a luxurious treat.
I have been working on the publishing company a lot here lately. It has been a learning experience. I am learning about contracts and the messy part of publishing… That moment when crap hits the fan. It is frustrating when it is your work with snafus… It feels like failure when you are handling other authors work. I am blessed with authors who understand and are patient with me.
Fae corps anthology Under the Mists is available in Ebook format… However as the platform that I chose to use for the paperback is still in Beta… We are looking at a month wait for the paperback. We are still going to be trying to get it in as many hands as possible because these stories are really worth the read.
I am quite sure most of you saw the call for submissions that I shared yesterday. Fae corps has two new anthologies in the works. We are going to do another fae story one, this one about light fae. We are also going to do a poetry collection.
Fae corps is also pleased to announce that we are going to be representing Ms Deedra Nichole in her In a small world series. We are in contract negotiations now, but I have no doubt that we will be able to do it.
I submitted 3 poems in a call for submissions that I found on wordpress. One of the three was accepted. My poem is supposed to be published on August 5th. With all of the feels of failure in the publishing… This felt like a win. I will take it.
Oh… And soon the next edition, the summer edition, of Creative Rising Ezine will be publishing. I will share the link to subscribe as soon as I get it.
Hmmm I think that is everything…. So I will be back tomorrow with some sort of tips on writing…. So for now… Time to gather tea leaves.
Anthologies Calling
We are looking for two different types of writing.
For the Anthology of Through the Sunshine :
- A story of between 3500-5500 words pertaining to light fae.
- Send in Doc format to faecorpspublishing@gmail.com with the topic of Through the Sunshine.
- Deadline is January 30, 2020
For the poetry volume of Faery Footprints :
- Up to five poems, max of 100 lines each
- Send in Doc format to faecorpspublishing@gmail.com with the topic of Faery Footprints.
- Deadline is September 30, 2019
Each of the authors in Through the Sunshine will receive a share in the profits from the book.
Each of the poets in the Faery Footprints collection will receive either a pdf or paperback edition of the book as payment. Only the best 100 poems will be chosen for this collection. The others will be considered for posting on the blog.
We have other anthologies planned… So if you cannot get…
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Author Spotlight Anne Belle
Fiction Author Anne Belle is quite the talent. She has a wonderful website, where she lists the books that she currently has out. She also has a YouTube channel where she reads such interesting stories.
Her bio from her site says :
Anne Belle was born Samantha Anne Branham in 1978 in Eastern Kentucky where she graduated from The Piarist School in Martin, KY and attended Eastern Kentucky University until 2000. She then took time to travel extensively throughout the United States spending time in Florida, Tennessee, and California before finally coming to rest in the great state of Texas where she now resides.
She was an award-winning essayist prior to turning her interest toward fiction. In 2006 she tentatively stepped into the water of fiction publication with a book that she later refined and released independently under her pen name. Her debut novel The Secret of the Storm…
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Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday Tunes
Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall
Lyrics ~
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey, teachers, leave them kids alone
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave those kids alone
Hey teachers, leave those kids alone
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
“Wrong, do it again! Wrong, do it again!”
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
“You, yes, you behind the bike sheds, stand still, laddy”
My two cents ~
Ok. I promised to give you a story last week. I had my first child at fourteen. I was six weeks late starting high school as he was born on September the first. Talk about hell. Starting a new school late and for such a scandalous reason. I was so nervous. I was terrified.
One of my step brothers was dating this amazing girl. She was held back a couple of years, and was so beyond caring about the “social norms”. Our school had the main entrance into the cafeteria. She knew the day I was starting. She knew how scared I was. So I got off of the bus, and saw her sitting there at the doors with a boombox (it was 1989.) Seeing me, she hit the button. Out of the speakers, at a volume that shook the glass in the doors of the cafeteria, she blasts that song. It started my high school career off on a better note. I was laughing. I was suddenly feeling like I was accepted. This song has been that feeling for me ever since.
Announcement!
Ok peeps! Our anthology is eBook live. However the publishing platform that we used had a small snafu. The paperback edition has been delayed for a month. So we are offering the link for ebooks only at the moment and preparing for more fun until the paperback edition is published.
Also if you are interested in a signed copy it is $25 + $3(US only. Canada and international is more. Just pm me for shipping costs there) Shipping. Please let us know, so that we can order the appropriate amount and arrange for all of the signatures.
The buy link for the Ebook is http://www.books2read.com/underthemists
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