Yearly Archives: 2015

Last Friday Finds: More Coolness from the Web

Posted on August 28, 2015 by KL Wagoner — 3 Comments

I hope you find something useful, or amusing, in this next batch from my bottomless bag of (lost and) found online articles and tidbits. ■ For Writers: Create an Author Business Plan As part of the Indie Author Series on Janice Hardy’s Fiction…

Don’t Wait for Inspiration

Posted on August 19, 2015 by KL Wagoner — 1 Comment

Don’t wait for others to inspire you. Don’t wait for inspiration at all…there’s no better reason to tell your story than a simple love of words. ~ Cara Lopez Lee

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Speculative Fiction: Culture Lab

Posted on August 14, 2015 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

Speculative Fiction: Culture Lab by Betsy James Speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, and slipstream) gives voice to those who explore societal and technological change along with deeper considerations of underlying archetypes of human experience. ~ from the…

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The World is Made of…

Posted on August 12, 2015 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

The world is made of stories, not of atoms. ~ Muriel Rukeyser

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Last Friday Finds: Coolness from the Web

Posted on July 31, 2015 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

I’ve amassed a ridiculous number of online articles and tidbits on every sort of topic, from a single post on how to make a fairy garden to thousands of postings about how to write a novel. There are so many,…

Surrendering to the Magic

Posted on July 29, 2015 by KL Wagoner — 1 Comment

I’ve found that the magic of storytelling is in surrendering, not to anyone else’s notions, but to the words in my head. I believe this: my subconscious knows better than I how to tell a story… Sometimes the best writing…

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Taking on the 777 Writing Challenge

Posted on July 25, 2015 by KL Wagoner — 2 Comments

I first noticed the 777 Challenge several months ago on Joyce Hertzoff’s Facebook page. It seemed a great way to share a bit of a writer’s work-in-progress. I’d been wondering how one gets picked for such a nifty challenge—and considered starting one…

We Write Our Own Truth

Posted on July 15, 2015 by KL Wagoner — 1 Comment

There is no formula and there is no right answer. That is the difficulty and the beauty of being a writer. We write to share our own version of the right answer. Our own unprovable truth. In writing (as author)…

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The Book That Sparked My Love of Science Fiction

Posted on July 11, 2015 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne? The Time Machine by H.G. Wells? Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? All great books, but none of these classics was the first to take me away to another world. By 1967,…