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Liz Hillsman's Discussions
Historical Fiction
Started Jul. 16, 2007
Your successes
Replied Jul. 3, 2007
judging others
Replied Jun. 29, 2007
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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I'm an aspiring author, an avid reader and a former YA librarian who is now a very busy library volunteer.
- Do You Have A Website?
- Nope, no website:)
- About Me:
- Journalist by degree, I've worked at a mall information desk, managed a bank branch, sold Longaberger, co-owned a newsletter business and was a YA librarian. I am now on sabbatical trying to finish my current WIP, play chauffeur to the offspring and juggle the demands of domestic engineering while writing a biweekly newspaper column and managing a brand new volunteer run used bookstore for our local library.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://lizsbookbuzz.blogspot.com/
- Favorite Books:
- I have way too many favorites to list. It would take years of typing!
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- I love to hang at Barnes and Noble in person and online. Of course, I will be loving our Friends of the Library bookstore once it is open.
Liz Hillsman's Blog
Nefertiti
Posted on July 16, 2007 at 3:35pm —
edit is a 4 letter word
"really".....check
"that".....check
"had".....half a check
Yes, the whole manuscript search/find/replace task of finding those foul and lazy words is almost complete. Then, starting next week, the line by line revision will commence! I may buy myself a brand new shiny notebook to keep on the desk for notes as I read and revise...or is that slash and burn??
Posted on June 21, 2007 at 6:28am —
here we go, again
Posted on June 20, 2007 at 7:00am —
the writing recipe
I was mixing up a cheesecake this morning after I visited a good half dozen writing blogs I frequent. Writing is so like cooking. You need to have all the ingredients in the right proportions or else your 'cake' or story will fall flat. Sometimes I feel I'm in the grocery store shopping for the items to make a new recipe and I've forgotten the list. I know what needs to go into that next scene, page and chapter, but I feel like I'm forgetting a key ingredient. Maybe this sort of doubt is mani
… ContinuePosted on June 17, 2007 at 11:08am —
neat stuff
Posted on June 15, 2007 at 6:48am —
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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