Category: craft tips
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Journals for ourselves and for our writing: A Day with Laurel Olsen Wenson
This month, Lehigh Valley author Laurel Olsen Wenson presented the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group with a program on various types of journaling and then turned that information into a workshop of using journaling, both in the text and behind the scenes, as a resource for character development. Types of…
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To NaNo… or no?
Tomorrow. Tomorrow is the first day of November. It’s National Novel Writing Month. In the mid-aughts, a phenomenon developed that lead to an organization that might now be classified as a writing movement. Every November, let’s all try to write a novel. First draft. Messy. Painful. But keep going. 1700…
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The evening of Under 1,000 Suns
As one of the publishers involved in the Fifth Annual Easton Book Festival, I spend much of the event chaperoning my authors and doing what I need to do as I’ve been asked to do it. This year, I’m making more of an effort to attend more events that I’m…
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Podcasts as a way to research your writing craft (and topics) and promote your work
I will be presenting the monthly program at the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group meeting in October, 11 a.m. the fourth Saturday (October 28). William Prystauk and I will be discussing using podcasts for writing, from research to learning craft, to marketing and promotion. The afternoon workshop, from 1:15 to…
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Writing Dirty Word hits a #1
I’ll keep it brief, but Ralph Greco Jr.’s Writing Dirty Words has hit #1 in Amazon’s hot new releases in the erotica fiction writing reference niche. What I find hysterical is that the #3 title came out two weeks before Ralph’s book and it sounds like the same book but…
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Writing Dirty Words now available
This week has been a delightful split between two of our favorite pastimes here at Parisian Phoenix Publishing– disability advocacy and dirty words. Today (as I write this it is 6 a.m.) is the first Lehigh Valley Disability Pride, hosted by Disability Pride PA and the Lehigh Valley Arts and…
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Plotters vs. Pantsers = Bullshit
I hope I’m not too high up on my horse, but for years I’ve been irked by all the fascination and discussion about those who outline their writing and those who completely wing it. Because honestly, isn’t most of writing a combination? But a few days ago, I realized— this…
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Wisdom from the writer of Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder
I purchased Maria V. Snyder’s first book, Poison Study, at the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group Write Stuff conference where she served as keynote speaker. I’ve been meaning to read the book for a decade. Maria gave a very eye-opening keynote address at the conference about her career, and how…
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