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First Draft

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First Draft is about fiction, complete with excerpts, snippits, industry commentary, trend setting in writing and publishing, and more from author Nadine Laman.

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  • Literary Agents

    Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 01:05 in literary agents

    I thought the post on the link at the bottom of this page was interesting. Good lit agents work with a writer if the ms is promising, but a bit rough around the edges. It takes a lot of time to review and make suggestions, and even more time if the w...

  • Procrastination

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 21:46 in fiction writing

    There are a million and one ways to not write.One way is to buy writing software or go to a name generator online and play for hours deciding on a name, plot, or some other writing related detail. You can get great ideas from these.Another thing some...

  • Retro look

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:23 in cover art

    Several years ago, I read an ms for Nidhi Dhawan. Nidhi is an ENT surgeon in India. Recently Nidhi and I were talking (email) about her book and I ended up designing a cover for her.First of all, so much for my memory, I knew there was a tree in the...

  • FREE Blog Party 09 Book

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 02:02 in blog party book 09

    With Thanksgiving Day (in the USA) coming next week, I thought I'd offer a copy of the Blog Party 09 Book FREE as a 'thank you' for all the years of good times in this industry. The blog party was the perfect example of what I often refer to as the w...

  • Supporting Characters

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 14:28 in storm surge, high tide, kathryn's beach

    Everyone knows that in a novel there is at least a main character (MC) and their antagonist - the person who makes the MC's struggle real - and secondary characters, their friends or sidekicks.One set of characters some novice writers forget to add j...

  • Location, location, location...

    Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 17:08 in fiction writing, setting

    Nope! I'm not looking to buy or sell property. However, location plays a major role in the setting for mss. (Actually, it applies to more than novel writing, any form of fiction needs a setting or set for scripts.)Even though location plays a backsta...

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5 stars Nadine Laman

Thanks! Sorry it took me so long to figure out this place was here.

Whoops! I have to do a rating. Well, I rate you two as fantastic!

Nadine

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Nadine, your posts are always informative and well written. Thanks for your independent and unique views.

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