Fiction Story Review by Monterey Peninsula Writers
by: Norm Goldman.
Editors: Chris Kemp: Byron Merritt: Ken JonesISBN: 0976009609The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews There is something to be said about a group of diverse auth...
Fiction Writing Tips
by: TK Kenyon.
Don’t Show, Dramatize! — Even Better Than “Show, Don’t Tell.”I’m sure that, at some point, you’re heard the adage Show, Don’t Tell. There’s even a rather good writing book by that title. Here’s a new aphorism: Dramatize...
Fiction Writing Lessons
by: TK Kenyon.
"As You Know, Bob." — When Exposition Masquerades as Dialogue by: TK KenyonAuthor of RABID, coming in 2007 from Kunati BooksIf your dialogue sounds too stilted, you may have exposition passing itself off as dialogue. Dialogue's one and o...
Books for Writers
by: Lisa Silverman.
In her lengthy career, Betsy Lerner has been an MFA student, an award-winning poet, a book editor at major publishing houses, and a literary agent. So in her wonderfully insightful book about writers and the business in which they struggle...
Good Fiction is Credible Fiction
by: Eric Penz.
So you want to write a good story? The kind of fiction that resonates with its readers; the kind that lasts longer on the shelf than the milk at your grocer; the kind that keeps people up at night like a narcotic? Well, then here's a litt...
American Express - the American Dream?
by: Tomas Loden.
American Express - The American Dream10 Facts About American Exress Card1. Everyone likes to have a American Express (Amex) credit card with a low interest rate on hand, even if it is just for emergencies.2. Choose the right American Expr...
Coffee - Some Fact and Some Fiction
by Javicaholman. It is amazing that this mere beverage has been able to generate such a wealth of romantic tales. On it other face, it also is behind a hard driving business model that affects almost all continents around the world. It is truly a wonder. Fr...
Food Labels: Fact or Fiction
by Michael Bens. It’s a proven fact that a manufacturer is in business because they make a profit off the items they sell to the consumer. This has been a known fact since the inception of manufactured food.And up until the last twenty years or so, manufa...
Green Tea Study - Fact Or Fiction
by Chris Jensen. To back up their claim, they submitted 105 studies, articles and other publications. Nearly a year later the FDA said no, insisting that, "There is no credible evidence to support qualified health claims for green tea or green tea extract a...
Tea For Weight Loss - Fact Or Fiction?
by Cupotea. Can tea really be helpful and aid in weight loss?Folks have better things to do with their time, like finding real solutions to their real dieting problems, so why should they bother with brewing a cup of tea? I mean is that all there is to...
African-American Life & African-American Achievement
by: Norm Goldman.
John C. Cothran, author of A Search of African-American Life, Achievement and Culture, candidly states in the Introduction to his book, that as an African American growing up in the USA, he was unaware of significant accomplishments of A...
Young Writers
by: Simone Mary.
If you are between the ages of 8 to 18 and love to write, be it short stories, plays or poems, then you are a young writer. For the writer nothing is more satisfying than finishing a story, play, poem etc. In fact some young writers decide...
Ghost Writers What Do They Do
by: David Fishman.
It's important to keep in mind, that not all ghost writers are skilled in all kinds of writing. Many times, ghost writers earn a quite a nice salary do something they love, which is writing. Ghost writers are more common than you think. Of...
Writers and Ergonomics
by: Ken Hassman.
If you are a professional writer that spends many hours sitting at your keyboard pounding away at the keys to produce written product you have probably become painfully aware (pun intended) of the need to pay attention to the way you hold...
Poetry Is For Writers
by: Steven Gillman.
What is poetry? The meaning is apparently difficult enough that my dictionary uses circular defining. "The art or work of a poet" is the first entry. The other two definitions don't clarify this much. I might define it as "The use of wor...
