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The deliberate typo in PASSAGE unveiled. Is it worth taking a creative risk in web 2.0 era?
I recently watched a lecture on how the book review culture has dramatically shifted since Web 2.0. The general public have been granted access to write and publish book reviews, which, like anything in life, has both positive and negative ramifications. The positive being that readers can get closer to the Authors they love by giving them high praise via glowing reviews. The negative being that a Romance Reader can slate Literary Fiction for no other reason than she dislikes the genre. Not to mention my own experience with two people who didn’t like me/my stand on something and sought revenge by posting a 1-Star Review on my poetry books.…
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The Passage of a little salmon (2015 Archive)
This is one of many posts that was lost when I migrated my site in 2016. This post was originally published on 5 August 2015. Like the salmon, I am fuelled by an instinctive mission that, in reality, seems impossible to achieve, but ever faithful about my safe passage upstream. ~ Bianca Bowers I cannot aptly describe the heady mix of emotions that blossom when an author receives her first shipment of freshly penned books. It is the crossover moment from intangible to tangible; the architect standing at the feet of a 3-dimensional building having pored over 2-dimensional drawings for months or even years. It is an achievement that induces…
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It’s a wrap on Novel 2
a milestone worth celebrating? I’m happy to announce that I finished my 2nd Novel today. Yay! maybe, kinda, sorta I say yay, but in truth it feels like an anti-climax. Not sure why? Perhaps it’s just the nature of being an unpublished and un-agented writer. Or perhaps it’s because I don’t belong to a writing group who can share in the highs and lows of writing milestones. Or perhaps it’s because I have to keep the contents a secret. Or perhaps I have moved past those heady days where writing was but a dream. Yes, I think it might be the latter. You see, I no longer think of…
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3 F’s for Writers
This is one of several Archive posts after losing 3 years of content a little while back (you can read that here). Are you complicating your writing life? If you… Treat writing like a hobby, Spend more time on social media than writing, Have more WIPs than completed Manuscripts, and Focus on publishing versus building a portfolio.. Then you might want to simplify your writing life by incorporating the 3 Fs into your writing philosophy. 1. FOCUS The first step to simplifying your writer life is to reassess your role as a writer and adjust your FOCUS… In the 21st Century, writers are expected to do a lot more than…
Bianca Bowers
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