Let Your Words Flow

Let Your Words Flow
Let Your Words Flow

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Oops! Wrong File.



Editing the wrong file!


This is a tip from my writing presentation, “Taming Technology.”

I love to revise and edit. The first draft is the hard part for me.

When I revise, I end up with multiple versions. I give each one a number at the end of the file so I can keep track of the newest version. An example,“My Story 43. doc.” I also save all those old files just in case. Imagine my shock when I discovered I was revising the wrong file one day. All that work on the wrong version! Imagine my shock when I did it again! I finally figured out how to avoid this.

My solution? Color!

It’s simple. Now every time I save a file for the last time I change the page color of the whole file. In Word, simply go to the Page Layout tab, click on Page Color, and choose your favorite color. I use a light blue. Now when I look back at an old file to see my original words, I know not to revise on that version. It works.




I also use this on files returned from editors, beta readers, and critique partners. I open both files side by side on the computer screen or on a second monitor, depending on where I am working, and know which file to work on.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Winner's Circle!

 

I am excited to be included in the Winner's Circle. Here is a link to the interview on the Institute of Children's Literature's site.

 




Interview with Rick Starkey.



Sunday, November 27, 2016

Busy, busy, busy.




 CRAFT SHOW





We are a part of the Great Smoky Arts and Crafts Community craft show at the Gatlinburg Convention Center. It started Nov. 22 and ends on Dec. 4. We are carving our bears on the main street in front of the convention center so we have to pack up everything each evening and bring it back each morning. It makes for long days, but the show is a lot of fun.

I don’t have as much time for physical writing during the show, I am able to brainstorm a writing project I have been working on.

That’s what I’m up to. How about you?

Friday, October 28, 2016

Skid by Tracey Martin



Sometimes when you lose control, you find yourself.



It took Gabrielle ten seconds to skid on black ice.
Ten seconds to wreck her car and her back.
Ten seconds to ruin her Olympic dreams.
Ten seconds to kill her younger sister.

Eight months later, Gabrielle's haunted by guilt, dependent on drugs to numb her pain and alcohol to numb her brain. Then Erik Tennyson crashes into her. Soon Gabrielle's immersed in the ghostly legend surrounding the Tennyson orchard, convinced that her sister is linked to its mysterious origins.

If she can just discover the truth, maybe she can put her sister's spirit to rest.

But as Gabrielle grows closer to Erik, her world skids out of control once more. Instead of appeasing the dead, she starts to do the thing she fears most: she remembers how to live.




"SKID is my favorite kind of story, one that acknowledges that life gives us pain and joy, love and sorrow in equal measure. I rooted for Ellie every step of the way!" -Jennifer Mason-Black





About Tracey Martin:
Tracey Martin wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, and an actor, possibly all at once. Instead, she studied psychology , and that led her to have an epiphany–imaginary people are way more fun than real ones. And so she became a writer. Her books include Another Little Piece of my Heart, the Miss Misery series, and the RedZone dulogy.

She likes her coffee simple, her music epic, and her movies to contain explosions. A city girl at heart, she doesn’t understand how she and her husband ended up living in New Hampshire, but writing keeps her off the mean, small town streets.

Follow Tracey on Twitter and via her website.tracey-martin.com, @TA_Martin

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Friday, October 21, 2016

Avalanche by Denise Jaden Cover Reveal!







When Ellis and Dylan’s resort world and all of their hopes crash – literally – around them, they’ll need to depend on each other to survive.





About Alexandra Diaz:

Denise Jaden is the author of the critically-acclaimed young adult novels Losing Faith, Never Enough, and Foreign Exchange, as well as two nonfiction books for writers: Writing With A Heavy Heart and Fast Fiction. When she’s not writing, she’s usually homeschooling her son (who is also a fast drafter of fiction) or dancing with her Polynesian dance troupe. Find her online on Twitter, Facebook, or on her website at denisejaden.com.

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