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The power of Setting in fiction

By lindacollison|2016-05-30T16:53:04-07:00May 30th, 2016|Categories: Water Ghosts, what inspires me, writing and publishing|Tags: craft of writing, creative writing, fiction, Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, Neil Gaiman, setting, The Ocean at the End of the Land, The Secret Sharer, writing process|

I'm reading Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres --[...]

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Water Ghosts — Read First Chapter here

By lindacollison|2016-05-17T12:04:07-07:00May 17th, 2016|Categories: books, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing, YA|Tags: Chinese history, chinese mythology, free chapter, ghosts, teen horror, Water Ghosts, YA psychological|

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Beyond Research: Creating Verisimilitude in Historical Fiction

By lindacollison|2016-05-16T22:29:31-07:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: historical fiction, writing and publishing|Tags: Barbados Bound, creative writing, Genre Con, historical fiction, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Star-Crossed, writing process|

Here are a few of the slides from my power[...]

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Water Ghosts a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist

By lindacollison|2016-03-09T03:05:19-07:00March 9th, 2016|Categories: Water Ghosts, writing and publishing, YA|Tags: Book of the Year, Foreword Review, Indiefab Finalist, Water Ghosts, YA|

Foreword Reviews Finalist -- Water Ghosts Today, Old Salt Press[...]

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Weymouth’s First Maritime Literary Festival March 12-13 2016

By admin|2016-01-10T14:46:13-07:00January 10th, 2016|Categories: nautical history, nautical writing, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, travel, what inspires me, women sailors, writing and publishing|Tags: historical nautical fiction, maritime fiction, maritime history, Weymouth Leviathan Maritime Literary Festival, writing conference, writing process|

I'm looking forward to attending England's first maritime literary festival[...]

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Water Ghosts — the terror of the doldrums

By lindacollison|2016-01-26T15:59:40-07:00December 7th, 2015|Categories: audiobooks, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing|Tags: adventures at sea, doldrums, ITCZ, nautical writing, sailing, story setting, subconscious, water as metaphor, Water Ghosts, writing process|

dol-drums 1. a state of inactivity or stagnation, as[...]

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Novel writing: Finishing the first draft

By lindacollison|2015-11-18T16:22:38-07:00November 18th, 2015|Categories: Uncategorized, writing and publishing|Tags: novel writing, writing process|

Welcome to the art of novel writing. How many of[...]

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How to Write A Novel

By lindacollison|2015-11-11T18:17:25-07:00November 11th, 2015|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: NaNoWriMo, teen writers, writers' workshop, writing process|

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Right now thousands[...]

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Drafting off NaNoWriMo

By lindacollison|2015-11-01T15:17:34-07:00November 1st, 2015|Categories: Looking for Redfeather, writing and publishing|Tags: fiction, NaNoWriMo|

Hats off to Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful[...]

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Halloween book giveaway

By lindacollison|2015-10-30T09:58:21-07:00October 30th, 2015|Categories: books, Looking for Redfeather, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing|Tags: book giveaway, Halloween|

Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1886, via Wikimedia Commons.[...]

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