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Reading Short Stories for Fun and Writing Profit

Please welcome guest blogger Kat Duncan.

How can you profit by reading short stories? Let me count the ways. Short stories are the Reader’s Digest condensed version of a story. They have characters, conflict, mood, plot, and setting. All the basic items you need to learn the craft in a bite-sized nugget your can serve yourself anytime of day.

Haven’t got time to read and analyze lots of genre books? Read genre short stories instead. After a dozen or so, you’ll catch onto the basic ideas of what makes a story interesting and suspenseful. You’ll also have [...]

April 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Guest Blogger, Reading | 18 comments

Finding Time to Read

Finding the time to read is difficult in our busy life, yet it isn’t as hard as you may think. The most important step is to find the time you can read. Ask yourself these questions:

Can you read every day?

Only during the week?

Only on weekends?

Is it early in the morning?

While you eat a meal?

Before you sleep for the night?

Keep in mind when answering these questions to pinpoint the time you can read at least half an hour with no distraction. If you do this four times a week, two hours are devoted [...]

April 13th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Reading | 4 comments

Another Way to Write Daily

Over the last couple months, my mind has changed on how to approach writing every day. Focus is the key to finish your novel. Since I can’t keep a steady written count on my novel, I wanted another way to keep myself focus on the novel but it still needed to keep me writing every day.

Then I started journaling as part of my SavvyU course at Savvy Authors. After a few days, writing the journal entry on my novel did help to maintain the focus. Sometimes the entry is long and other times it is short but each [...]

April 6th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Writing Daily | One comment