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Wow its been so long since I was last on here I hope everyone is well and having loads of creativity happening. So quick update believe it or not but I have almost finished my 1st novel! Yes you read right so no need to rub your eyes in shock :-) I have around 17,000 words left to write and then finally book 1 will be complete. Its kind of sad though wonderful as I have been dragging my heels for so long. So I've changed the name and series the new title for…

Everybody who experimented any kind of  loses,from earthquake to death of someone loved,  put himself the question: Why me? Am I  guilty , am I blamed or I made a mistake in my life?

Those and other many philosophical questions about what our brains are, who we are, and why we're asking these questions all of our fears in life can be traced back to the most fundamental one: not knowing who we are.

And therefore, the goal of higher states of…

Today, I’m celebrating (as it were) my one week anniversary of my new home…in a camper trailer while I look for more permanent lodging. Here in Iowa, it’s been rainy and cool.…

Where were they she thought, the voices, they were supposed to join me after breakfast. Something small flying about near the ceiling high above caught her eye, she’d not expected to see flies in a place like this. She fixed her gaze on it there was something strange about it, that shimmer... As it got bigger and came slowly closer Delia was horrified to see it was a frightened…

    Recently, I was driving and passed the empty Borders bookstore building at the corner of Ronald Regan Parkway and 124 in Snellville, Georgia.

      I slowed down, turned into the parking lot. I opened the car door and walked up to the front door.

      I stared inside at the empty space.…

Greetings, I am new here and just looking around trying to get a feel for the site itself. About me... I am writer and artist. I write anything from plays, novels, short stories, poetry, and children stories and my art and my writing questions and challenges the 'Human Realities of this world'. The best way I can sum it up, just that it is all very involved. I raise questions of the human potential and those prospects of possibilities that may or may not be inflicted and imposed on the…

SPAMMING THE SPAMMERS

Got up this morning and did the first thing I’ve done every day since the computer age began. I checked my email. Not much there from family or friends that needed a reply.…

Fifth wasn’t aware she was drifting off to sleep but soon she was asleep and began to dream. She was a hawk, high in the air circling the village, lazy in its attempt to find prey. A rabbit ran across her path and she swooped down on it and just as she was about to grab it in her talons it turned to look up at her.

‘Oh Dee, Dee, I knew you’d come.’ And Fifth…

   TALES FROM THE SAND HILLS

A humorous collection of stories about life growing up in

the Australian outback as seen and lived by Mary Seaton

(Hoppo) of Tibooburra. With animals for playmates and

ww11 diggers for…

Tales From The Sand Hills an Australian Outback Adventure.

‘Tales from the Sand Hills’ is set in the Australian outback during the 50’s and 60’s. The times were pretty hard in post-war, post-depression Australia and to survive out there in the Australian outback you had to be a bit tough. And that country out there was particularly tough.

It was a…

So another week has passed. The upheaval from last continues with new frustrations this week.

Over a rainy weekend I secured a temporary place to live and this week, have started packing. Today I filled an entire dumpster with stuff I've accumulated over twenty years but haven't seen in years or haven't used. Some stuff I thought were important had lost their…

      How am I going to tell my story? Which Point of View?

      Choices? Choices? Choices?

     When I sit in front of my computer and start to pound the letters on the keyboard, I must decide on the point of view to tell the story! I swallow hard and try to figure out a “voice” in which to write my novel…so many choices!

      What is the definition of…

I don't see myself as a blogger, but I do like to tell what I'm currently working on, or things that interest me in the world of fantasy writing.  I have two self publish books under the title The Darkstone Chronicles, and I am working on my third novel (not related to the first two).  I have a blog site at www.darkstone8.wordpress.com and

I have a couple pages on facebook.  …

I am currently looking for a website that has some good quotes for motivational and inspirational quotes for women.  I am getting ready to write a new book.

Any information would be great.

If you don't write about your book or talk about your book, people won't know about your book. Keep the excitement about your book alive by sharing tidbits in as many formats as possible. Trust me - IT WORKS! 

Stephanie Lynne's Authors.com blog, May 2013.…

Hello, writers! Lori Stephens here--book editor, book writer, book publisher, and all-around supporter of the literary arts. Looking forward to connecting with you. :-)

This was not going to be the topic of this week's post. I was going to discuss last weekend's writers' retreat I attended where I met some great people, made some new friends, and had a lot of fun, especially Sunday morning trying to avoid the rain.

However, what I learned Sunday afternoon on the drive home turned my world upside down. From Sunday through Thursday (yesterday) my…

Hello all,

Excuse my cluelessness but I'm self publishing my book in August through Blurb first and then going from there, but my formatter/editor and general handler of things I don't understand was talking to me about ISBN numbers... Now I understand that I need to pay around £126 for one!? I'm a student and recently lost my job and haven't found another one, so I can't exactly afford it right now. We have a plan but can somebody out there please explain the ISBN thing to me because…

Until I stumbled unto this community, I intermittently wondered if indeed this writing business is not just an unending pointless Odyssey. Discovering a community like this assures me not only that there are so many others out there able and willing to sustain the arduous, shifting and often thankless business of writing but also that there may be something, afterall, no matter how indefinable or elusive, that compels and drives dreamers like me to stubbornly get on with it.

If you…