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New Post Series

ByRachel July 13, 2009 1 Comment
I only missed one day of NaBloPoMo, and I almost missed tonight, but not quite! After Sunday's guest blog with SM Blooding I was out of blog juices for awhile. Starting tomorrow, I'll begin a series of posts on innovative marketing ideas for the new author. The thought of marketing and self-promotion daunted me at first, but after reading a few resources on the subject I feel confident in my...

A short despair, if you'll indulge me

ByRachel July 10, 2009 1 Comment
If you've time, perhaps you'd like to hear about my moment of despair. Right now I'm unemployed and have no guarantee that anyone in the publishing world is ever going to print what I've just spent the last 13 months of my life working on every weekday. I may not have anything to show for this endeavor, except to be even further behind those of my peers who are already showing promising careers....

Domain name!

ByRachel July 9, 2009 0 Comments
It's important for modern authors to market themselves online via web sites, and to that end I purchased rachelhestondavis.com tonight. I'm so excited! I have an excellent web designer friend all lined up to work with me, so hopefully within a short amount of time I will announce the release of my site upon the world. Mwuh-ha-ha! In other news, you can now subscribe to this blog via email! Just...

What's so Creative About Creative Writing?

ByRachel July 8, 2009 7 Comments
What makes a piece of writing creative? Why do certain genres--novels, short stories, poetry, journalism, even copywriting--get the additional word "creative" attached to them? Is it because they require the execution of certain forms? Perhaps the manipulation of form, such as the rising and falling action of a story or the line pattern of poems, and a careful choice of words...

Old School Writing Style

ByRachel July 7, 2009 4 Comments
J. R. R. Tolkien had an old-school writing style. He studied mythology and Old English extensively, and his prose in Lord of the Rings reflects a high, mythic sound reminiscent of older books and stories. A sound I don't run into anymore in the world of literature. That is, until now. Imagine my surprise when I ran across a modern book (copywright 2002) with a high wordy sound like Tolkien, and...