Tag Archives: plot

Writing Resources 13 July 2013

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Gene Lempp

Here you will find a selection of the best of the blogsphere from the past week. Grab your coffee, straighten the glasses or spritz those contacts and above all – enjoy. Featured Jami Gold: A Pantser’s Guide to Beat Sheets. … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources | Tagged blog marketing, blog tips, blogging, dialogue, Facebook graph search, Gene Lempp, indie publishing, inspiration, Instagram, marketing, pacing, Pantser's Guide to Beat Sheets, plot, productivity, publishing, self-publishing, writing, writing advice, writing resources, writing scams, writing tips | 4 Comments

Writing Blog Treasures 12~8

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Gene Lempp

Welcome to Writing Blog Treasures! Here you’ll find the best of the blogsphere from the past week. Grab your coffee, sit back and above all – enjoy *smile* Featured Measuring Success by Gabriela Pereira and the DIYMFA Team Excerpt below: … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources | Tagged blogging, character, conceptual thinking, conflict, epublishing, Excel, Gene Lempp, Goodreads, hashtags, indie publishing, marketing, metadata, Piktochart, plot, publishing, self-publishing, story concept, success, tension, WordPress, writing, writing advice, Writing Blog Treasures, writing prompts, writing tips | 5 Comments

Writing Blog Treasures 8~4

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Gene Lempp

Welcome to Writing Blog Treasures! Here you’ll find the best of the blogsphere from the past week. So, grab your coffee, sit back and above all – enjoy *smile* On Publishing Writing On The Ether: Olive Branch by Porter Anderson. … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources | Tagged blog photos, blogging, book launch, book piracy, creativity, e-publishing, editing, editors, epub, Feedburner, Gene Lempp, grammar, indie publishing, Kindlegen, Pinterest, plot, productivity, publishing, self-editing, social media, story structure, Thrillerfest, traditional publishing, WANA Commons, writing, writing advice, Writing Blog Treasures | 13 Comments

Writing Blog Treasures 6~9

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Gene Lempp

Welcome to Writing Blog Treasures! Here you’ll find the best of the blogsphere from the past week. So, grab your coffee, sit back and above all – enjoy *smile* Featured This week Kristen Lamb made a fantastic, wonderfully, stellar (more … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources | Tagged blogging, ebooks, Facebook fan page, Gene Lempp, Hunger Games, inspiration, Kristen Lamb, movie reviews, non-fiction, Pinterest, plot, publishing, self-publishing, short story tools, social media, WANA Tribe, Wordpress spam, Writing Blog Treasures, writing conferences, writing platform, writing plot, writing tips | 11 Comments

Blog Treasures 4~7

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Gene Lempp

Welcome to Blog Treasures! Here you’ll find the best of the blogsphere from the past week. So, grab your coffee, sit back and above all – enjoy *smile* Featured The Bookshelf Muse (Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi) is a favorite … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources | Tagged Amazon Children's Books, author branding, Barnes & Nobles, Blog Treasures, Bookshelf Muse, connotation, cover art, Dexter Morgan, DFWCON, dialogue tags, facebook, female characters, Gene Lempp, Hunger Games, indie publishing, internal dialogue, Mirror Mirror, MS Word Tricks, Pinterest, plot, plot advice, plotting, public reading, publishing, romance writers, search bomb, Shark Tank, social media, steroids, Survivor, The Emotion Thesaurus, twitter, Victorian Crime & Punishment, Wrath of the Titans, writing conferences | 14 Comments

Sunken Tomb Empowered

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Gene Lempp

Welcome to my weekly series “Designing from Bones”, using archaeology and the artifacts of human history to find and design stories. Last week we explored The Great Dismal Swamp to discover the communities and adventure possibilities lying within its murky … Continue reading →

Posted in Designing from Bones | Tagged ancient tombs, author, blog, blogging, China, designing from bones, fantasy, Gene Lempp, Great Dismal Swamp, Hongze Lake, horror, Huai River, Ming Dynasty, paranormal romance, plot, plotting, romance, royal tombs, science fiction, sinkhole, social media, thriller, tombs, Xinhuanet, YA, Yellow River, Zhu Yuanzhang | 13 Comments

Blog Treasures 05-21

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Gene Lempp

Welcome to my weekly roundup of the best Treasures I’ve found on the blogsphere during the past week. Glad you stopped by, enjoy! I have to start out by sharing an incredible networking idea for writers started recently on Twitter. … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources | Tagged Aliventures, Blog Treasures, blogging, blogs, Bookshelf Muse, description, drafts, fiction, Gene Lempp, genre, great ideas, Henrietta Lacks, Janice Hardy, Jess Witkins, Kait Nolan, Kristen Lamb, Larry Brooks, love revolution, MyWANA, plot, plot devices, plotting, revision, Scott Eagan, sensory, Sensory Saturday, show and tell, Story Engineering, story structure, structure, Suzannah Windsor Freeman, Writers Unboxed, writing, writing drafts, writing structure | 4 Comments

Swamp Visions

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Gene Lempp

Welcome to my weekly series “Designing from Bones”, using archaeology and the artifacts of human history to find and design stories. Last week we looked at Otzi for ways to discover plot ideas through occupation. Today we will be searching … Continue reading →

Posted in Designing from Bones | Tagged African-American, archaeology, bounty hunter, canal, canals, community, criminals, designing from bones, Dismal Swamp Hotel, drama, dystopia, forced labor, Gene Lempp, Great Dismal Swamp, history, Kristen Lamb, maroons, North Carolina, outcasts, plot, plotting, romance, Science Daily, slavery, slaves, survival, swamp, Virginia, will-o-wisp, xenophobia | 14 Comments

Plotting the Iceman

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Gene Lempp

Welcome to my weekly series “Designing from Bones”, using archaeology and the artifacts of human history to find and design stories. Last time we delved into Ireland’s Semaphore Towers to find story ideas by using an intriguing setting. In this … Continue reading →