Treat the below items like the puss filled sebaceous cysts they are and excise them from your manuscript: Obvious/assumed actions and redundant informational phrases: Tricky Dick Mugillacutty picked up a slice of pizza in his hand, brought it to his mouth and took a bite. Unless gluttonous acts of pizza perversity are in…
Candace Vianna’s Immutable(sometimes) Writerly Rules (in no particular order.)
1. Cheating on mature projects will not be tolerated. All primary relationships must be resolved before indulging any new inspirational lusts, no matter how sexy the orgy might be. 2. Friends lie. They must be liars, since you don’t hang out with idiots. Don’t expect friends or fans(except for…
Create your own Scrivener icons using Gimp tutorial
Those of you who’ve followed me for a while know I’m a big software fan-girl of Scrivener and Scrapple (both programs produced by Literature & Latte.) One of the great things about Scrivener is its file based approach. Instead of one huge document, it uses a series of document folders and files that can be…
Android’s Effing Insufficient Memory Error!
So a pet-peeve of mine is the fact that I can’t install apps to my SD card on my phone (Lg Tribute.) What’s the point of having SD capability if apps aren’t allowed to use it? Yeah, I could hack my phone, install a custom ROM… yada yada yada…. But I didn’t want to dammit,…
Crimes are committed in romance too…
Okay peeps and peepettes, for those not in the know, Mondays are my Twitter day. I spend a better part of the day playing with a game called #MondayBlogs. I spend the day discovering cool blog posts that others have found or created, and I share the same. But today, I came across what in…
NSFW:Profanity! I’m Damn Mad and Staging a Revolt.
Okay I’m sick of 100k spam follows on Twitter (I’m NOT putting up their URL because I don’t want to send these fuckers traffic.) We all know who they are. The douchebags with the blue and white banners and @bullshit accounts. These ass-wipes are a major annoyance. They’re selling Twitter followers, which may be major…
Not Your Mother’s English
English is alive. It grows, changes. Mutating like the forgotten cheese hiding in the back corner of the refrigerator behind the blueberry beer bought two years ago (PMS impulse buy;) its once pumpkin orange skin, now a green and white mottled velvet. This was never more apparent than when my mom started beta reading Dead…
Virual Romance Festing Instead of Literal Editing. I’ve been bad…
So my peeps and peepers, I’ve fallen behind… Again. Convincing myself I was still working (I’m extremely gullible, so it wasn’t very hard,) I spent the weekend attending the virtual Romance Festival. And now my brain is buzzing with new ideas, new story-lines and plot-twists. Strange and wonderful characters (some a little scary) are pinging…
NSFW:Profanity! A literary exercise in being artfully profane.
The following rant is a literary exercise in profanity. It is an attempt at the artful use of foul language. And, although it was not written with the intent to offend, it is offensive. Consider yourselves warned: NSFW
HOW TO EFFECTIVELY REPORT A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION
Originally posted on Choose your Own Erotic Adventures:
(Legally without waiting for the authorities to step in; doesn’t cost you a dime; don’t need an attorney or a large publisher. You can take care of this YOURSELF.) I have a beef with general-ebooks.com. In November 2014, I found my books on their website without my…
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