Category: inspire
Ben and Jerry’s has the most amazing flavor of ice cream called Chubby Hubby. It is a single pint of decadent saturate-your-sorrows in 35 grams of sinful artery-clogging saturated fat and it’s-probably-better-if-you-don’t-read-the-rest-of-the-nutritional-information yum-inny goodness. For several years, it was my…
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Category: Adventures in Querying, agents, courage, discouragement, Food For Thought, H.L. Stephens, HL Stephens, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, indie, inspiration, inspire, lonely art, publish, publishing, query letters, writing
Some words come easy to us. Words of tenderness for a loved one. Colorful metaphors. The proper order of terms for the grande triple mocha latte flavored coffee you order every day at the local Starbucks. But there are also…
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I used to love the phrase when I was a kid. “A day late and a dollar short” It seemed so jingly. So fun. So easy to catch up to if you just tried hard enough. After all, it was…
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Category: fear, Food For Thought, future, H.L. Stephens, HL Stephens, hope, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, indie, inspiration, inspire, lonely art, mistakes, Mister Marmee, mystery, publish, publishing, submission, Tor Books, writing
We’ve all had that dream. No, I am not talking about the dirty bathroom dream where all of the stalls make the use of an outhouse at the yearly fair seem like a delightful prospect. Nor am I referring to…
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Category: Adventures in Querying, agents, courage, discouragement, fear, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, indie, inspiration, inspire, lonely art, mistakes, publish, publishing, query letters, triumph, writing
I am not one to toot my own horn when it comes to much of anything, but in the case of worst blogging awards, I think I have a chance of winning this particular distinction. If you could only see…
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There is nothing quite so appealing to a writer as the thought of being published. It is after all what most of us strive for. Few of us write with the plan of hiding our work away so that no…
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For millennium, mankind has looked to the stars for answers. We have sought guidance for our future and validation for our decisions going back as far as our written records can capture. It is an age old habit. Even in this modern…
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Imagine, if you will, a battlefield strewn with the blood and bodies of fallen men with two opposing armies determined to destroy each other. New recruits are pouring in with every breath to fill the ranks on each side as…
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Category: courage, discouragement, fear, H.L. Stephens, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, inspire, Mister Marmee, publish, Smashwords, triumph, Victorian Era, writing
Any good writer worth their salt knows the single most important decision that can be made when it comes to weaving a truly worthy tale is the careful selection of the main characters. They are the foundation upon which everything…
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Category: Amazon, Chronicle of, crime, HL Stephens, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, inspire, Mister Marmee, Mr Marmee, publish, Smashwords, The Case of Jack the Nipper, The Chronicles of Mister Marmee
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