Another week is gone, where is time flying? Upcoming for most of you out there is the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, opening on the 24th and ending Feb.6 or whenever they reach 5000 entries, so hurry. Why is it not for me? Because in spite of opening Amazon Italia, Italy ISN’T in the countries allowed [...]
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The “new” Waiora
As most bloggers are on hiatus for the Holidays, I don’t have links to share this Saturday. So I thought I’d update my readers about the Waiora, or water people. Once upon a time they were called “Vetrolandiani” (something akin to Glasslandians), they were completely human, had translucent tunics and here’s a very old drawing [...]
Posted by Barb on January 1, 2011
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/the-new-waiora/
Letter of intent
I’ve been wondering what is success as a writer for me. After a year of blogging, I probably changed my mind a hundred times about what I wanted from my writing! so I’ll try to write my letter of intent like Smander suggested and did. Dear Reader My name is Barbara (a.k.a. Barb) and I’m [...]
Posted by Barb on October 7, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/letter-of-intent/
chapters and series
One of David Farland’s Daily Kick newsletter talked about chapter titles and how everybody should use them to hoot the reader and map the book. I’ve used chapter titles for the whole 20th century (at least the part I’ve been living and writing, i.e. the last quarter), especially as I considered my first novels “episodic”, [...]
Posted by Barb on July 29, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/chapters-and-series/
Deleted scenes
You find this title on some DVDs extras, right? Well, I suggest you apply this to novels as well. Cheryl mentioned on her post she’ll have to delete part of her manuscript. My comment: “don’t hit “delete”. cut and paste somewhere else (a new document, a document of “deleted scenes”, whatever), you never know when [...]
Posted by Barb on June 22, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/deleted-scenes/
Writer friends books
While I wait for Mickey’s book to arrive, and before I read Prue’s books, I’d like to talk about other writer friends books I read last year or earlier. I reviewed them mostly on WeRead (one also on Amazon), and it’s been some time since I read them, but I still remember them. I’ll try [...]
Posted by Barb on March 2, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/writer-friends-books/
back on track
OK, enough crying over myself and whining nobody loves me! My yo-yo ego is going up again, so I can start making more plans. Yesterday on the bus I was checking my notebook where I used to write my priority lists (now I write them here, haha, so my two readers can wonder if I [...]
Posted by Barb on February 10, 2010
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/back-on-track/
On fantasy
I’m a genre writer. I started as fiction writer, telling stories in the present (with some excursions into past and future) until I finished high school. Then I started writing what I thought was science-fiction, but is actually science-fantasy, as I’ve never read hardcore science-fiction, but I did watch the original Star Wars trilogy and [...]
Posted by Barb on November 28, 2009
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/on-fantasy/
NaNoWriMo
So, it’s my first NaNoWriMo. And I haven’t made up my mind yet. I’m such a compulsive writer, I don’t really need a specific month to start a new work! I know I’ll write the fifth and final Book of the Immortals, Earth, by the end of the year. It’s a total rewrite, by the [...]
Posted by Barb on November 5, 2009
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/nanowrimo/
My name is Barb, and I'm a writer, sometimes an artist, mostly a world-creator and storyteller of fantasy worlds. I have more than one pen-name and write in more than one genre.
I blog about life, the universe... OK, you can guess I'm a writer, but not Douglas Adams, so I'll leave the Hitchhiker's Guide aside. And no, I'm not going to spam you by only rambling about my books - if you're interested, just go to the dedicated pages, thank you.
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