Glynis Smy - Author of Historical Romance/Suspense: A Little Help is Always Appreciated

A Little Help is Always Appreciated

This is worth watching until the end, Andrea Rain Waggener offers a website address for you to collect a few free tips. Her claim that novel writing is easy is a little debatable in my mind at the moment. I am sure that one day I will...strike that...I hope one day I will be able to think like that.

Stephen King gives good advice, he made me smile.

3 Comments:

Jen Chandler said...: Thanks for the videos, Glynis! I'll especially have to watch the one from Stephen King :)

Jen; 12/10/09
aldon @ orient lodge said...: It is interesting to watch these three videos as I prepare for National Novel Writing month. I wrote my first novel as part of NaNoWriMo in 2007. The few people that read my early draft liked it, but it sits on a hard disk unedited.

I changed gears in 2008 part way through my story and it never came to completion, but I'm gearing up for my 2009 effort.

It seems so different than what the speakers spoke about in some ways, and yet so similar in other ways.

It will be interesting to see how this year's effort turns out.; 12/10/09
Glynis said...: Happy that you enjoyed the videos, thanks for dropping by.
Aldon, get it off of the disk!
Good luck with the future.

Jen, Stephen King made me smile.; 13/10/09

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