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…Authors… just a wee WURD about getting negative reviews…
Wise words as always!
…if yeez are like me, fellow Lads and Lassies of Blog Land, yeez’ll remember well the first ever ‘bad’ review for any of yer masterpieces… the pink cloud of having finished the first novel was still my principal means of transportation when the thunderbolt struck… a flurry of ‘nice’ supportive reviews had already landed on the Great God Amazon pages… there I was, this ol’ Jurassic, now a Proper Published Scribbler, getting real reviews from real people… the universe was beautifully smudgy round the edges, like when the dentist gives you a tad too much of the laughing gas… then in came the party-spoiler with a stab to the literary heart… ouch!…and ouch! again… a thousand times ouch!…
…the initial reaction of course, is hurt… followed by a modicum of resentment… oh. alright, a ton of resentment, bordering on outright hatred… but, sensibility settled in… the guy had…
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#BeWow Wednesday – What Makes Me Happy
More than a blog post, this is a series of photos of what makes me smile. I hope you enjoy them!
Sketch of the day no 544: botanical illustration in ink and watercolour
Beautiful!
Sketch of the day is a botanical illustration in ink and watercolour. Just trying out painting on proper watercolour paper.
Happy weekend xx
It’s Pi Day At The Maryland Science Center
Exploring NOLA, The French Quarter
Reliving one of my favorite vacations through Kaitlin, as she captures New Orleans with her camera lens and New Orleans captures her imagination.
New Orleans is a city I’ve always wanted to visit but for some reason or another never had the chance. First it was transportation reasons. Then I got a car. Next it was money reasons. Then I started getting more work. Next it was time restraints due to said work to make said money. I put my foot down and said enough was enough and I needed to calm the nagging voice in my head that always says to me “What are you doing here? Why aren’t you traveling and learning about different cultures and new people?” If you’ve been following me you’ll know that my life goal is to be a traveling photojournalist someday and I won’t have to choose between work and seeing new places, they’ll be one and the same. Last night Andrew and I arrived in New Orleans, LA after a twenty hour car ride after…
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…yes, Authors… getting the detail right IS the way to go… and it feels good…
As a writer of historical fiction, I understand that although yes, I write fiction, that doesn’t mean I can just fabricate any and everything that happened during the eras in which my stories take place. It’s imperative that I use multiple sources to find my information–mainly history books and documentaries. I spend countless hours reading, looking at maps, watching videos and chatting with another author friend to get those facts straight. Two nights ago, I was learning about medicine (and I use that term loosely) during the 17th and 18th century. Our readers are brilliant and they will spot BS a mile away so making that call, emailing that source or at least looking for the facts that matter in the background–and sometimes the forefront of the story, only make it that much more real, for lack of a better word.
Another author friend who also writes historical fiction of the pirate variety like myself, even interviews sailing folks, historians and the like in order to create a more authentic story, fiction or not. My favorite story is when she spoke to an authority on shark attacks in order to make a scene she was writing more realistic. Bloody brilliant I’d say! 😉
As always, excellent advice Seumas!
…I’m not among the legions of the Grammar Police, recognising that this ol’ Jurassic is as likely as the next quill-scraper to screw up linguistically sum’where along the way… nit-picking is for… well, for people who have a ‘thing’ about nits, I s’pose… but, the good is in trying, I’m told… so try I do… in particular, I’m referring to stuff in my novels… the content detail, Mabel… I choose not to give the kinda in-depth agonising nuance by agonising nuance of bullet size, calibre, velocity and skull-splitting impact speeds that appear in tomes by, fr’example, the late Tom Clancy… rote lists like that do NUTHIN for me as a reader, and that’s only in my not so ‘umble opinion… yeez are all entitled to yer own, of course… and yeez won’t hear me denying yeez that right… what I’m more interested in is getting facts as accurate as…
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The Everyday Struggles That Only Curly Haired Girls Understand (Please Get Your Fingers Out Of My Hair)
Yes, I completely understand. 🙂
Author P.S. Bartlett 
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