Last week we talked about the importance of accurate order within a sentence or paragraph. Today we’re looking at the same type of problem, but when it occurs on a much larger scale: Zigzagging through time as we move from scene to scene within a story. Watch out for this […]
CWG Prayer Chain Post: May 9, 2011
The CWG Prayer Chain Post is a weekly post for members to include their special intentions by adding a comment. …that your faith and hope should be in God -1Peter: 21 The May intention prayer, to remind us of the basic principals handed down to us from those early days, […]
A Self-Published Author’s Best Friends
Nowadays, because it is so easy to publish your own book, first-time self-publishers often don’t realize that many people are involved in the production of a good quality book: editors, cover designers, proofreaders, copy-editors. Writing a book is only one step in a long process. It’s important for self-published authors […]
The Story Before the Story
I’m beginning the third mystery/thriller in the series that began with BLEEDER and continues in VIPER. At this stage there are all sorts of thoughts swimming in one’s head, and one of them is ‘what happened long before this story began’? What has happened in my characters’ families, education, careers […]
CWG News
A Round of Applause for: Congratulations to CWG members Lisa Hendey and Elizabeth Scalia on their recent trip to Rome as invited participants in the Vatican blog meeting. Not only were these esteemed authors chosen to take part in the Pontifical meeting on developing the Catholic blogosphere, their meeting coincided […]
Volunteer Drive: Catholic Writers Conference Live
CWG MEMBERS ONLY: This is the next in series of activities the Guild does, and that it needs volunteers to help with. The CWG wants to be a force for promoting quality Catholic works–and quality works by Catholics. Won’t you give of your time and talent for this worthy endeavor? […]
It’s Mary’s Fault I Write
May is Mary’s month, and I can’t help but reflect in this space about how it’s Mary’s fault that I write. Yes, I blame her. Writing was a dream of mine years ago, when I was a wee girl living in the country and filling notebooks with terrible tales, but […]
Editing for Accurate Order: 1, 2, 3
This week I want to attack a sneaky problem that sometimes slips into manuscripts: Describing events out of order. Remember our editing goal is to get the right picture into our reader’s head – and that includes helping the reader to see what is happening when. Usually accurate order isn’t […]
Abstract: A New Paradigm in Interaction of Small Quadruped Mammalian Life Versus Artificial Intelligence.
Posted by Walt A large number of writers work for cats. In a chat at the end of the recent Catholic Writers’ Conference Online 2011, someone mentioned cats and a flood of war stories inundated the chat room. Everyone, it seemed, had one or fifteen to tell about their fur-covered […]
CWG Prayer Chain Post: May 1, 2011
The CWG Prayer Chain Post is a weekly post for members to include their special intentions by adding a comment. In Acts 2, driven by the Resurrection of the Lord, the Apostles began the formation of a community which established the foundation of the church. The sermon today from our […]