http://scribblersontheedge.com by members of Scribblerati.com Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:44:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/03/how-to-reduce-the-time-it-takes-to-write-your-first-draft-start-with-a-strong-synopsis/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/03/how-to-reduce-the-time-it-takes-to-write-your-first-draft-start-with-a-strong-synopsis/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:56:03 +0000 Lia Keyes http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=716

After spending the last five years writing my first novel, I’ve come to the conclusion that if I’d figured out how to write a synopsis sooner rather than later I could have cut that time in half. If you figure out whether the story holds water before you begin to write, you can save so much heartache. I agonized over every story decision I had to make. I couldn’t keep the story in my head because it was so jumbled. [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/03/how-to-reduce-the-time-it-takes-to-write-your-first-draft-start-with-a-strong-synopsis/feed/ 3 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/the-great-wait-what-to-do-after-submitting-to-agents-and-editors/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/the-great-wait-what-to-do-after-submitting-to-agents-and-editors/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:28:19 +0000 Lisa J. Michaels http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=665 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/the-great-wait-what-to-do-after-submitting-to-agents-and-editors/feed/ 2 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/notes-from-dwane-knobbes-fun-workshop/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/notes-from-dwane-knobbes-fun-workshop/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:39:51 +0000 Cheryl http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=577 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/notes-from-dwane-knobbes-fun-workshop/feed/ 2 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/a-lovely-rejection-letter/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/a-lovely-rejection-letter/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:42:23 +0000 John Rea-Hedrick http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=465

Let’s face it, for any writer submitting their work for publication rejection letters are inevitable.  However, it’s best to think of these letters in terms of what they really are – a part of the journey, not the end of the road.  With that in mind, I’d like to share an experience of my own I recently had along the way. Back in July of 2009 I entered one of my poems, Shizaru Undone, in the New Millennium Writings summer [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/a-lovely-rejection-letter/feed/ 2 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/writing-for-publication-writing-for-self/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/writing-for-publication-writing-for-self/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:38:44 +0000 Michael L. Martin Jr. http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=442

If the music industry has taught us anything it’s that artists should be artists and the CEO’s should stick to CEO’ing. But, these days everybody and their grandmother must be a better marketer than their own marketing team. That’s fair. (sarcasm) But really, no one is going to be as passionate for the success of your product than you. It’s your baby. To most everyone else it’s just some smelly kid with cheese doodle fingers. Yeah. Cute. Just don’t touch [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/writing-for-publication-writing-for-self/feed/ 4 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/sending-the-inner-editor-on-vacation/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/sending-the-inner-editor-on-vacation/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:31:35 +0000 Ann Marie Gamble http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=170

Much advice about getting words on the page and finishing a manuscript will recommend at some point to “banish your inner critic!” If you’re critiquing or editing as you go, the theory goes, you’re also inhibiting your imaginative self, the parts that will come up with the fantastic ideas. I’m an editor in my day job, and I do a lot of wrestling with the issue of ignoring the Inner Editor—at this house she’s paying the mortgage, so we don’t [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/sending-the-inner-editor-on-vacation/feed/ 0 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/founders-findings-a-world-of-opportunity/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/founders-findings-a-world-of-opportunity/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:20:48 +0000 Lia Keyes http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=384

Following our editor’s terrific round up of business news in The Edge this week, I thought I’d give you a Christmas present in the form of information about our readership. We’ve only been operational for a couple of weeks at the new site, and already we have readers checking in from all over the globe. I was shocked, and thrilled. Here’s the list of cu Following Brittany Landgrebe’s terrific round up of business news in The Edge this week, I [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/founders-findings-a-world-of-opportunity/feed/ 0 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/to-blog-or-to-novel-that-was-the-question/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/to-blog-or-to-novel-that-was-the-question/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:25:01 +0000 Elizabeth Varadan http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=289 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/to-blog-or-to-novel-that-was-the-question/feed/ 0