A Guide to Ink Masterpieces

Writers are students at heart. As writers, we must be willing to adapt and consider the possibility of taking the alternative route to success. Each one of us has an area of study within the English language and literature fields that we are particularly passionate about. However, we are one of the few artists who have dual personalities, where utilizing both sides of our brains is not an option. We are always evolving, and on occasion, we reinvent the wheel for future generations.

NOTICE: I am here to provide solid advice for your benefit. I am in no way here to hinder you as your own writer; if you happen to disagree with me, then do not hesitate to disregard my advice. This is here for you to take bits and pieces to best suit your specific needs.

I will make an entry covering one topic on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (unless I am preoccupied with professional tasks - so please forgive me and keep this on your favorites for immediate updates!). This blog will cover topics on areas such as character development, plot, description, grammar, punctuation, outlining, research, reviewing other members and editing. I will answer any and all questions on Sundays in this blog so that you may be well on your way to creating a masterpiece out of ink.

UPDATE: As of August 2012, I have been going through a lot in my personal life so you will find that my posts will not exactly follow schedule despite my efforts to maintain some sort of schedule. I would suggest following my notebook scribbles so you can see when this blog has new posts added, or add this blog to your favorites so you will see when it has been updated. I will be sure to keep everyone on the same page as far as my scheduling goes so that you will know when to look out for new posts. Remember, your questions are important and they can also be requests to cover specific topics that you need help with right away.

Affiliates for this Blog

Carol St.Ann has graciously permitted me to provide her program's link on my blog. Her program promotes blogs, articles, and other items that are written for other members of this website to utilize and improve their own skills as writers. As a part of her goal, she rewards members who post these types of items in her forum. She recently reopened the contest again last month and will be holding a monthly competition for members. Any donations made to her cause are much appreciated and any surplus in donations are forwarded to other programs like Rising Stars and WCMTH Upgrade Assistance. Check it out and see what it's about.

As of August 2012, I was notified that this link has been set to require a passkey. I apologize for those who have gone to check it out and have not been able to. It is most likely under construction. Check back later to see if it's better. If not I will be removing it from the affiliates.




~WhoMe???~ runs a weekly raffle for members, promoting groups like Need Help With An Upgrade, Rising Stars, Simply Positive Newbie Reviews, Angel Army, WDC Frontliners, and WDC Power Reviewers. Feel free to buy a few tickets for yourself and your friends and you stand to win GPs and Paid Memberships for your accounts!




Tina M. Courtney found this blog through a sponsored items list and informed me that she is very eager to become a part of this. She is a part of a fairly new group called WDC Saints. They are a review group. So if you writers are looking for some good, solid feedback, this is a group you will want to check out. I, myself, will be joining the group soon enough.



Dawn Embers: Blog of a writer working towards publication in fiction.  
Dawn Embers has had a writing blog of her own for a couple of years now and I wanted to share this with the rest of you so you may get some insight into topics I may have not covered yet, or see it from somebody else's point of view.



I recently created a group for other authors and members of this community to be a part of this blog and participate by writing their own articles to post. Every writer has a specific style, knowledge that others may not have, and a particular talent on something specific in literature. It would be beneficial to the community and members who follow this blog to read helpful articles from a number of different writers. What I may post about description may be different from another writer's article about description. Members will take away even more knowledge by having a number of perceptions on these topics.

I hope that you will join this group and see you post articles for the community too. And if you are up to it, maybe even help provide feedback that is requested by members.





If you have any questions that you would like to request an in-depth entry on, please visit the following item to make your submissions:




Also visit this link as well. This is where both group members and community members can post article topics they would like to see posted in this blog.




If you are looking for feedback on a specific work from me, check out my item here. All you need to do is fill out some information and I will knock it to the top of my list to review. Check out my public reviews available in portfolio to see how thorough I am in my critiques. However, I must warn you. You must be willing to take some heat because, while it is never pleasant to hear your work still needs work, it is necessary to break through and make your work the best it can possibly be.



Or you can request feedback from our group through this application here:





If you are the owner or a member of a group, contest, crash course in writing, forums, have an advice column, or anything that you feel would help other writers improve their work or get them involved in the community, please fill out our Affiliate application. Even if you do not have any ongoing projects that qualify and you know someone who does, you will be rewarded for referring those members. There is something in it for everyone so don't forget to check it out!

Thanks for following along with me and stay tuned!