Just a quick update to let you know that our Metaphores Writing group is moving to it’s own blog with password protection for it’s members only. We want to reserve the rights on our stories so if we sell them someday they are not all plastered on the web somewhere.
I have kept up the Homework section so you could see what we’ve been up to for the last year. Thanks to all of you who have come to see us and read our stories.
I started taking our new transit system almost two months ago. It has been heaven compared to riding the bus into Salt Lake for work and like a resurrection from driving in the crappy traffic. All of this time, which is about one hour and 15 minutes, affords me the opportunity to read as much as I can.
I’ve been on a big reading kick of late too. I think I’ve read about 10 novels in the last month. I’ll work on getting the Book Reviews section updated over the next few weeks. I am currently reading Valorian by Mary H. Herbert. Excellent series. I highly recommend it. I’ve read it before about five years ago and now I am revisiting the story.
If you have any book suggestions you’d like to share you can comment here.
I’ve just updated our Blogroll list on the main page with several new websites. Two of them have to do with writing for science fiction and fantasy. The other one is Agent Query, which allows you to search for who is the agent of your favorite writer, that sort of thing. Helpful if you’re a writer and want to submit to the agent of your favorite writers.
Happy writing!
Chrisopher Paolini is a genius. His first novel Eragon, sold millions of copies world wide and gave young adults and those of us older adults a chance to dream again in a newly created world. The third novel in the series and final book Brisingr, will hit the shelves at a bookstore near you on September 20, 2008.
Metaphores Group and Homework have now been udpated.
You are probably looking at the title for this post and wondering what exactly does that mean? Thanks to Jo and Kathryn we do know what this means.
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
I am encouraging those of you who are interested to take part in this global effort. For the why’s, how’s and when’s go to their website at : http://www.nanowrimo.org/. Click on About in the menu bar and get started. If you do decide to do this and sign-up for the site, they will send you email reminders daily to help lift your spirits as you take on this mamoth challenge. Good luck out there. A few from our group are going to take the challenge. I hope to if I can find the time to do it.
Book Reviews and the Metaphores Group have been updated. A new section has been added called Homework Files for us to post the stories or poetry we work on.
The first get together of the Metaphores Group in a year was a resounding success! We’d like to welcome newcomers Kristen and Woodruff to the group. I look forward to a wonderful year of collaboration with all of you.
About two and a half years ago some friends of mine and I decided to start a writing club. We called it the “metaphores”. Now, we do know that it is not spelled properly but I think that is why we chose the spelling. We went strong for almost two years meeting about once-a-month. There were 6 of us. I really learned a lot about myself as a writer during that time. Then about mid-year last year I stopped going because Jason and I were dating seriously and then I got married and then…..
Now it’s time to revive our group! We have three of the orignal members, counting myself, and a few new ones joining us. In the Metaphores section of this blog I will be posting the assignments we are working on so if you want, you can do them at home also.
Welcome to my author blog. I’ve always wanted to have a place to post my writings and share stuff with others. Now, it may not be that great but it’s a great place to receive advice and constructive criticism. So, please participate with me.
A few of my friends and I have a writing group and so I will go ahead and post the assignments we are working on so that you can too.
