Category Archives: Writing

The bumpy road of book blogging

By Anysia | November 15, 2008

Negative reviews are the risk of publishing a book. No matter how a book gets to a reader, they have the right to express an opinion of the book — these days that opinion frequently ends up on online cataloging sites, online retailers, and yes, book blogs. Most authors, 99.9% I would venture to guess, [...]

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Do you Nano?

By Anysia | October 23, 2008

Well, do you? I do. If you do too, feel free to be my “buddy” on NaNoWriMo.org. You’ll find me under the name Anysia (which means complete in, erm, some language, so I thought it was fitting for writing a novel — or at least the draft). I’ve seen some NaNo participant buttons on book [...]

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Writerly Wednesday #5

By Anysia | September 10, 2008

Well, it’s September. For more years than I care to remember that means that I am doing coursework again. This year my classes fall on Wednesdays so these writing posts will likely be moving to another day. Not that I’ve done much writing other than blogging lately.
If you want to get some of the benefit [...]

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Writerly Wednesday #4

By Anysia | August 27, 2008

I’m off sunning myself on the coast, so here are some writerly sorts of links to look at while I’m gone:
It’s bad enough when anonymous people diss your book on websites, but how about when your own publisher does it in advance reader copies? All is not as it seems. Be sure to read the [...]

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Writerly Wednesday #3

By Anysia | August 20, 2008

Technically it’s still Wednesday, so this still counts. It’s been meltingly hot here lately so I ended up sleeping most of the day to make up for not sleeping at night now that it has finally cooled down. Since it’s nearly midnight and I’m just getting around to doing today’s post, here is an ode [...]

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