by Pepper Basham | Apr 27, 2011 | Fiction Book Reviews
So… the contest entries are back in hand, or you’ve received your crit partners response to your newest chapter. What you have before you is your precious manuscript covered in red remarks. What happens now? Well, besides the usual initial response of...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 29, 2011 | inspirational fiction
I’m reading Self-Editing For Fiction Writers, recommended by Patti Lacy. It’s very good. And is causing me to go back through my pages to see where I can make things tighter. Show more than tell, use more action verbs. Those sorts of things. But one thing I hadn’t...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 18, 2011 | God's grace, inspirational fiction
I’m feeling sorry for Anne Shirley. Or I’m feeling LIKE Anne Shirley when she dyed her hair green. Almost. I’m borderline ‘depths of despair’ with my writing, so I’m taking a moment to sympathize with Anne and bellyache to cyberspace. Ever been there. Life takes over...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 13, 2011 | Fiction Book Reviews
I started entering writing contests in April 2009 and within the past (almost) 2 years, I’ve filled out about fifteen different contest forms. Some responses were good. Some were not. And some just hurt me like a kick to the gut. But like a masochist, I sent out...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 7, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
This week I hired someone to do a line-edit on my work-in-progress, The Thornbearer. It’s always a bit unnerving to become vulnerable to someone else’s critique, offering my infant-manuscript to be sliced, diced, and redressed (just kidding, actually she...
