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Posts tagged ‘Writing’

Word Software – a Blessing or a Curse for Writers?

A lot of writing instructors advise you to show, don’t tell, cut adverbs, avoid passive voice, etc. These things matter. When I work on the Night to Dawn magazine or books, nothing makes me more frustrated than finding a potentially great tale cluttered with clichés, adverbs, and exposition. But no one addressed the eccentricities of [...]

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Interview with Balloon Artist Turned Author Ralph E. Horner

Some time ago Night to Dawn Books published Heroes of Ancient Greece, an anthology featuring Ralph E. Horner’s tale, “Atalanta.” I was pleasantly surprised and pleased to learn about his brainchild Tandem Tryst and forthcoming sequel. Also fascinating is his background in magic and balloon art. He has crafted every balloon animal you can imagine [...]

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My Beef with Word 2003 Revisited

Hi, friends! I am madder than an executive with a busted golf club about the way my Word Program acted up…again!  Sometime ago, I vented on the frustration of working with overly formatted documents in Word, and how I ended up with a big, mess by gum.  But what got me pig-biting mad is the [...]

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Interview with Eppie Award Winning Author Margaret L. Carter

An Eppie award winner, Margaret Carter is the author of Sealed In Blood, Crimson Dreams, The Vampire In Literature, Dark Changeling, Different Blood, and many other dark works, both fiction and nonfiction. Some of her stories have appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover anthologies. She received her MA in University of Hawaii and Ph. D. [...]

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