Writing with R Kelly: Read On Prompts

/ September 19, 2011/ bad movies, blogfest, learning from movies, movies, writing, writing with r kelly/ 14 comments

Horrible movies. We’ve all seen them. Some people live for the craptacular*. The stilted dialogue and the horrible CGI make you giddy with glee. You’ve got your heckle down to a well-oiled machine. Hate or love them, bad movies do kinda rock. They rock even harder when you can learn from them. If you’ve followed The Pie for a while,

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Swinging Doors

/ September 7, 2011/ blogfest, campaign, flash fiction, writing/ 18 comments

So part of the platform building campaign is challenges. Rachael posted the first one on Monday. The challenge? To write a piece of flash fiction that is 200 words or less that begins with the phrase “the door swung open.” Optional parts of the challenge are to make it 200 words exactly and  to close out the piece with “the

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Hidden Gems Blogfest: The Tower

/ September 6, 2011/ blogfest, books, Dark Tower reference, fangirl, lists/ 6 comments

So yesterday was Labor Day in the US, which meant somebody wasn’t chained to her computer. (Shocking, I know.) What sucked about that was I couldn’t post my entry for AJ Mullarky’s blogfest right away. But Alicia, you could’ve scheduled it ahead of time.I know, but I’m kinda weird in that I don’t like doing that. What if I changed

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Huzzah! The Query Letter Blogfest is Here!

/ April 19, 2011/ blogfest, Dark Tower reference, Falling to Normal, query letter/ 14 comments

Do you know what today is, kids? The nineteenth. And while that has tons of crazy importance in a certain fictional world that involves this poem, it’s also important on this plane because today’s our query letter blogfest. *hands out celebratory mochas* If you’ve already signed up, hooray. If you haven’t, there’s still time. The rules: Post your query letter

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Need Query Letter Help?

/ April 4, 2011/ blogfest, query, query letter/ 20 comments

In case you were wondering about Friday’s post, the aliens versus paratroopers never happened*. My high school didn’t excel in the “kick ass pranks” department. As it was, my graduating class thought parking someone’s Jeep Cherokee on the walkway to the front of the school was clever**. But it’s a new week and that means back to business. Since the

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