Week End Round Up

This has been yet another busy week and we have much ground to cover so here we go with the summary and other interesting things.

The New Author in the blogosphere was an update of sorts about the various ways you can access the New Author. Do you mainly stay on Twitter? The New Author is there. How about Squidoo? Okay, you may not have heard about that one but I do invite you to visit the site there. Squidoo is interesting. Also, I invited readers to e-mail me concerning guest blogging here on the New Author. I am happy to announce that on Thursday of next week R.W. will be guest blogging. She is preparing an article about writing on a budget that I am sure will be informative and entertaining to us all. If you would like to guest blog on the New Author send me an e-mail and we will work out the details.

View of a main character was an interesting topic that received some really good comments. We discussed point of view and how that affects the development of our main characters. We found out that at times a story will present different main characters then we originally thought. I encourage you to read the comments associated with this article.

They grow up so fast is another article about main characters but this time we focused on the description of those characters. More to the point, we discussed how they are described. We discovered that it is important for other characters to describe the main characters as well as the main characters describing themselves in order to develop a full, vibrant picture. Another interesting note in this article is the use of small things and slight opportunities to further describe our characters. The comments added so much to this article.

Let the words flow like water is a look at writing or for us that have it complete, revising, a first draft. Take off the shackles of revision, throw away the thought of structure and just write. Let the words flow out of you as your ideas dictate. There will be plenty of time to clean it up later on. We learned that the first draft is a net of sorts to catch all of our story ideas. Again, do not miss out on the comments for this one.

J. Thorn is a fellow new author that, in my opinion, has a lot of talent and a flare for presentation. I have known Thorn for a while now and I can say that he has something good brewing with his story. His site was recently launched and I encourage you to visit. If you do don't miss his audio reading of his short story Hearts of Ochre. It is a primal story taken from the theme of the Mayan civilization. It is a chilling story with a twist.

Below you will find a book trailer video from C.A. Milson, another new author, for his book - The Chosen. C.A. is hard at work promoting his first novel and the video is one of his approaches to reach a larger audience. This video and Thorn's site is just a few examples of how promoting and marketing is changing for authors by way of the Internet. Check out his video trailer. At the end he supplies his website address where he has two more videos and plenty of additional information about himself and his book.




We are at the end of February. Have you submitted your short story or poem for the New Author Writing Contest? The deadline is approaching fast; before we know it the 31st will be here. Now for something to think about; with the audio reading and the book trailer video in mind do you think these types of promotions are the future for new authors? Will we need to be that Internet savvy?

Have a good weekend and happy writing.