by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
What’s Your Novel’s Log Line? by Maeve Maddox http://www.dailywritingtips.com/whats-your-novels-log-line/ The term log line (also spelled log-line and logline) is usually associated with movies, but the wise novelist will learn how to write one. In the context of...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
http://fictiongroupie.blogspot.com/2010/09/love-scenes-101-dont-be-corny-or-porn-y.html So what exactly constitutes a love scene? Are they only important for those of us writing romance? Of course not. A love scene can involve any number of things. It could be that...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Creating Cover Art: Down &...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Does playfulness spur creativity? Ethologist Sir Patrick Bateson of the University of Cambridge wants to know why playfulness is so connected to creativity in the realms of science, music, and business. Working with behavioral biologist Daniel Nettle, he asked over...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html Where I’m From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
New Blog post: How to Title Every Book You Ever Write You’ve decided on a life of letters. You’ve got that manuscript you workshopped getting your MFA, an agent, and a publisher. Congratulations! You’re well on your way to being a critical darling. Now all you need is...