Diane Sherlock
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ROAR SHACK A Partnership with Portuguese Artists Colony Presents: Home At Last Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 826LA 4 – 5:30 p.m. Note Location and Time Change!!! Thank God for books and music and things I can think about. –Daniel Keyes Roar Shack is a collective of writers and artists, and over the…
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It’s been a wild month. My application to attend TEDGlobal was accepted, so I will be in Edinburgh, Scotland mid-June. More on that in the coming weeks. I have been recording some of my work, but I also did one of Neruda’s love poems. I will be posting my own work in the coming weeks…
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Want to stand out with your writing? Or in general? Remove hyperbole from your writing and, for that matter, your speech. Have you noticed that people now seem to be incapable of speaking without it? We’ve become gushers of adjectives, adverbs, and expletives. A touch of hyperbole can strengthen a scene, but if it’s not…
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Need to get away, refresh and write? Consider signing up for Other Voices Querétaro What you get? 10 days of structured activities with your fellow writers 7 days of workshops, 3 hours per day All “Wine and Publishing” Talks Mid-morning pastries and coffee on all workshop days Welcome dinner at Fin de Siglo Walking orientation tour…
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How good is your imagination? Did you ever imagine riding a moose in a river or lake? Why not? I mean, come on, Teddy Roosevelt actually did it (not photoshopped according to History.com and Life Magazine) and you didn’t imagine it? Me neither! But then, I would have gone to the hospital if someone shot me.…
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Part of the writing life is managing your moods. You’ve heard that if you wait for inspiration to strike in order to write, well…. Yeah, that novel doesn’t write itself. Do you catch yourself indulging in any of these three behaviors? They’re all part of the same thing with different time references: Self pity –…
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Several times this past year, I had people ask how they could help me with my books. The first question I asked was whether they’d bought any of them. No. Well, there’s a start! You want to help an author, buy their books. Forget all the fancy posts on book marketing…
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Why do you write about what you write about? What images or feelings stay with you after reading a story or watching a film? What genres resonates the most with you? Horror? Thriller? The life of the mind or the heart? Mystery? Romance? What feelings or images stick with you? Do you know why? What…
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In the last post, I briefly addressed the dragging of feet that can go along with finishing your work or getting it out into the world. We cannot know if success will come quickly, after many years or not at all. All we can to is to try to be prepared and that means making…
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