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Ten Things you can control when getting published
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Wishing you the best for the coming year 2015 and hope all your dreams come true. Last Clichès: Duty Bound—To be firmly obligated. This phrase is from bounden duty, which dates from the 1500s and was actually redundant, since from...
Creating your Writer Platform
A platform is not a list of your credentials, but is the ability to self-market yourself. First, last clichés: Still Wet Behind the Ears – Inexperienced or immature. The term refers to the fact that the last place to dry on a newborn colt or calf is the indentation...
Query letters for an Agent
For me, the query letter is much harder to write than the book. First, last clichés: Not to mince words – To speak plainly, avoiding giving offense. This expression, also used as not to mince matters, dates from Shakespeare’s time (see Othello and Antony and...
Agents
What do you need to know about agents? First, last clichés: My lips are sealed – will keep secret. The idea of keeping one’s mouth tightly shut is much older and sealing up someone else’s lips dates from the late 1700s. However, this phrase became current in the early...
Attending workshops is important
I just attended the 2014 Arizona Writing Workshop in Tucson on Nov. 22nd. It was a great experience, and writers should attend classes and workshops and conferences. But first, last clichés: Racking my brain – To strain to discover a solution or to remember something....
Traveling Still
I’m still on the road, but here are the last clichés: Off the Top of my Head – Impromptu, extemporaneously, impetuously. A mid-20th century Americanism. Term appeared in Harold L. Ickes’ Secret Diary (1939). See also author June Drummond (Junta, 1989). Make the Grade...
Time Flies when Having Fun
Can’t believe a month has passed. Sorry for not writing here. Too busy caring for others and editing on my next novel, which is almost done! First last clichés: Fire(d) away – Go ahead. Say what you need to say. Ask whatever. Fire away refers to a gun loaded to the...
THE EDITING PHASE:
Well, my editor finished with Vanity Killed and now it’s my turn to revise once more. First, let’s review last times clichés. Get a Rise out of someone (reader) – To provoke to action or to anger. This phrase probably comes from fishing. The angler drops a fly in a...
Making It Real
How do you make sure your scenes are real? First, last times clichés: In a Pinch – When hard-pressed. The British expression, “at a pinch,” is from the 15th century. See William Caxton in his translation of The Book of Faytes of Armes and of Chyualrye (1489). In 1888...
