#IWSG   Twitter Hashtag

• Joylene Novell Butler
• Jen Chandler
• Mary Aalgaard
• Lisa Buie Collard
• Tamara Narayan
• Tyrean Martinson
• Christine Rains!

 

IWSG NOVEMBER question is – 

What is your favorite aspect of being a writer?

• Creating characters profiles.  World building.  Creating connections within connections with symbolic and metaphoric touches that drives the subconscious of the character and building the complexity.
• Making stuff up. The Possibilities!
• Making the story follow logic even in a fantastical situation within the story limits you set up.
• Creating emotional connection.  I love deep point of view but I am still a novice at that and learning, but it makes me happy when I nail the emotion.
• Making sure the law of cause and effect holds  true within the story.  That choice/action generates a reaction/consequence be it internal or external or both, which is the best kind.

These last three are developed likes in the course of learning, honing, and practicing story craft as I play at working.  Writing story makes me feel like a kid and that anything is possible. Below, something I used to say a lot, especially when younger, and still sometimes do.

If I could be anybody in the world, I’d be a heroine in a book so I could live many lives, many adventures, see the world, fall in out of love and back in love again, experience space travel and fight pirates.  Best of all, I’d be a Jedi Knight.  ~Juneta

I’ve written almost as long as I have been able to write.  My early years were writing to make stuff up for entertainment and to see if I could, and then that changed to serious-minded play in RPG’s creating characters with their own stories that played out in my beloved story worlds.  e.g. Star Wars, LOTR & one in a Pern-like world, and now as a career creating my own worlds and original stories.

 

As Holly Lisle likes to say…

 

FROM MY AUTHOR RESOURCES LIST

DEEP POV & DESCRIPTION

• Deep POV and Narrative Distance—Part 1 by Fiction Editor Beth Hill
• Deep POV and Narrative Distance—Part 2 Jby Fiction Editor Beth Hill
• 5 Times Katniss Nailed Deep Point of View by Marcy Kennedy on Novel Writing Project
• Writing “Personal” Description through Your POV Character at Live Write Thrive
• Writer’s Digest Tutorial Engaging Your Readers Through Emotion and Description
• Deep POV—What’s So Deep About It by Fiction Editor Beth Hill on The Editor’s Blog
• Hack Your Readers’ Brains by Describing the Five Senses by K M Weiland
• How To Share Your Protagonist’s Deepest Feelings With Readers by Angela Ackerman

 

LITERARY DEVICES AND SUCH THINGS

• 5 Basic Literary Devices That Will Deepen Your Fiction K M WEILAND
• What’s the Best Way to Tell (and Write) a Story? By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

 

Free 3-Week Flash Fiction Course created by Holly Lisle.  No strings.  It’s free with free membership to the site.  It’s fun.  I learned so much.  I take it over and over again when I am feeling rusty and in need of practice.  I learn something new each time.  I love and live for those Ah-ah moments!  Just click on the book cover to check it out. 

 

I AM HAVING COMMENTING PROBLEMS.

WORKING ON FINDING A FIX.

 

I COMMENTED TUE ON SOME OF THESE BLOGS JUST FINE NOW MY COMMENTS ARE MAGICALLY SWALLOWED INTO NEVERLAND WHEN I POST ON ALL BLOGS, SO FAR EXCEPT ON 3 BLOGS-(2 WP & 1 BLOGGER).

NOT SURE WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS IN THOSE 3 BLOGS BECAUSE IT HAPPENS ON ALL OTHER WP AND BLOGGER BLOGS I HAVE VISITED.  I HAVE TRIED AT LEAST 10 BLOGS COMMENTING  MULTIPLE TIMES ON EACH TO NO AVAIL BEFORE I GAVE IT UP FOR THE NIGHT.

FYI  I have been trying to post on WP and Blogger blogs and return comments but they are being eaten.  I’ve googled several different fixes none have worked.

I will try again tomorrow.  I have never had this happen before so not sure what is going on.  I have spent way too much time trying to figure this out so moving on so I can accomplish something today.  It is 7pm already–been at it all day, only left one comment on Anna’s blog, not sure why can post there and none of the others I always post on.  Too weird!!!

Grrrrr, I’ve maintenance my computer, my browser and google with half a dozen different fixes, NONE work.  I still cannot comment or return comments on peoples blogs I’ve commented on forever.  My comments have become ghost disappearing as if I never typed them.  It’s 1 am and I’m going to bed.  I am so frustrated with this.

 

Check out my Author Spotlight Author’s.

 

This month’s Author Spotlight is on Joylene Nowell Butler and her newest release.  I just read this is a sequel to her book, Broken But Not Dead.  Matowak Woman Who Cries can be read as a standalone.    

 

November Author Spotlight

Matowak Woman Who Cries by Joylene Nowell Butler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 27th Storytime Blog Hop 17 Short Stories written by 17 Authors from around the world.  Read them here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER 1ST RELEASE DAY.  GRAB YOUR COPY!

Timeless Maiden of Time 3 Cover Reveal (YA) Paranormal Historical

 

 

 

 

 

The Dragon’s Curse by Julian Adorney New Release Fantasy Romance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cradle Rock by Tara Tyler Available December 1st, read about here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sign Of The Green Dragon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bish Denham The Bowl and the Stone COVER REVEAL. Available Now to purchase released Oct. 3rd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When It Hooks You by Nicki Elson Romance & Humor!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trouble By Any Other Name Book 2 Lori MacLaughlin!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chrys Fey Seismic Crimes Book 2 Romantic Suspense!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Startling and Unexpected Visit By Renee Scattergood (Shadow Stalker Series)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flare The Sunless World Series Bk 2 Cover Reveal Rabia Gale.  Check out the Sunless World Series BookI 

 

 

 

 

 

Treasures Retold: Royal Swans: The Wild Swans Book 7 by Katharina Gerlach Available on Amazon now!

The Treasure Retold series: Fairy tales touches of Steampunk & Airships. Read Her Author Spotlight Book 6 Release Here