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What’s Your Question???

• January 28, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: answer, courtney vail, fiction, hook, novels, question, readers, revolve, ride, story, thing, work, writers, writing

Yearly Resolutions, Goals and All That Jazz

• January 23, 2009 • 11 Comments

Posted in Personal Notes
Tags: blog, book, career, courtney vail, critique group, edits, goals, Kings & Queens, polish, query, resolutions, SASE, submission, writer, writing

Become A Nitpicky Reader

• January 22, 2009 • 6 Comments

Posted in Advice
Tags: author, books, characterization, critique, edit, junk, nitpicker, novel, plotting, reader, reaper, writer

Have Any Weird True Stories to Share?

• January 15, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Poems-Shorts-&-More, Writing Exercise
Tags: courtney vail, funny, hershey, stories, true life stories, weird stories, writer, writing, writing prompt

Love Fey, Aliens or Bloodsucking Creatures?

• January 14, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: bantram spectra, contest, courtney vail, dark, emented, fantasy, freakish, horror, newbies, pulse, science fiction, short fiction, short story, speculative fiction, unpublished, weird, writers, writing

Sucky Synopsis Sludge

• January 7, 2009 • 13 Comments

Posted in Personal Notes, Poems-Shorts-&-More
Tags: agents, conflict, courtney vail, deeper, hook, Kings & Queens, main goal, manuscript, microblurb, plot, story, summary, synopsis, teaser, ten-word hook, writer, writing

Make Good on Your Promise…Go Visceral

• January 5, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Advice, Baiting Readers, Building Characters, Creativity, Voice, Texture, Tone
Tags: 18 seconds, captivating, characters, courtney vail, critters, deja vu, description, five senses, george d. shuman, intuition, Kings & Queens, life, melissa marr, mind, novel, plot, readers, realistic, scents, sense, sensory impressions, spiritual sight, story, visceral, wicked lovely, writer

Going On and On and On About Dialogue

• January 2, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Advice, Building Characters, Voice, Texture, Tone
Tags: author, characters, chatting, chimera, conflict, conversation, courtney vail, details, dialect, dialogue, discuss, info dump, pacing, plot, propel, speaking, talk, talking, teens, texting, thrust, tone, writer, writing, yada

January FIRST Wild Card ~ Gatekeepers

• January 1, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in FIRST
Tags: author, christian, cops, david, door, fiction, gatekeepers, novel, portal, Robert Liparulo, school, writer, xander, YA

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~ Creative Burst ~

Archive for January, 2009

What’s Your Question???

Yearly Resolutions, Goals and All That Jazz

Become A Nitpicky Reader

Have Any Weird True Stories to Share?

Love Fey, Aliens or Bloodsucking Creatures?

Sucky Synopsis Sludge

Make Good on Your Promise…Go Visceral

Going On and On and On About Dialogue

January FIRST Wild Card ~ Gatekeepers

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