Thursday, August 13, 2015

More new stuff! And some old stuff unbroken!

If you happened to be on my blog yesterday or today; I sincerely apologize. For the rest of you, NEW LOOK, NEW LINKS, NEW FORMATTING!! Yay!

What happened was I really really wanted a drop down menu gadget since I'm compulsive to organization...my obsession came out when I wouldn't let it go, tried out a variety of new templates with little luck, and basically rendered this blog illegible and unlinked. Yikes.

I decided to for-go the drop down for a better set of pages. The thing was is that there's really two sides to this blog. The stuff talking about me, my work, and my progress...and the blog. So you'll notice above there's new categories. Here's basically what you'll find.

Now this article is specifically for How to Write a 1-Page Synopsis; as opposed to the type that typically would go on the back of the book. There is a difference and I will get to the second type soon. For now I am focusing on the specific type of synopsis meant to be sent to agents; the query letter. I did a post about those HERE, but this dives more into how to make a great synopsis.

Now normally I don't like posting text from the article in these posts; they are more designed for you to go over there and read. But this formula worked perfectly for me so I have to show y'all. She goes into examples of each using Star Wars as her 'book' so if you'd like more clarity on the steps below, just go to her post!

Cheers

HOW TO WRITE A 1-PAGE SYNOPSIS

SoozApr 17 2012

Posted in:
Beginner Resources, Industry Life, Writing Life

When first starting writing, it sounds like this:

New hashtags

Writerly Advice

For Being a Writer - #BAW
For Planning - #Plan
For Writing - #Write
For Editing - #Edit
For Marketing - #Market
For Publishing - #Publish

Saturday, August 8, 2015

OCQ: Persephone

Character: Persephone

First seen: Book II-ch. I

Relation: Fox's kid sister

Discipline: Elemental Magic

ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION: MAX KIRIN

Some behind the scenes crap!

Hey y'all!

So I haven't been posting lately (though I had called it) but that doesn't mean I haven't been hard at work here.

If you've been checking in daily (which at this point I couldn't imagine there are too many of y'all (and those who do, awwww!)) you've may have noticed things being moved around and changed; do not adjust your set. Here are the changes that I have settled on!

Added HTML scripts to the sidebar

Social Media buttons
Recent posts feed

Created Goodreads profile
Added HTML scripts to the footer

Currently reading/read/to-read widget (Goodreads)

Made adjustments to fonts
Made adjustments to widths
Created an About.Me profile

Replaced the 'About me' tab to 'Author Bio'
Made it a redirect to above profile

That's just THIS blog! I also changed/fixed/added items to my tumblr blog. The big thing is that I added two pages there that are not here. What I like to write about (HERE) and Current & Planned Work (HERE). The content of C&PW will end up getting disseminated in the individual pages I have created for each project...

...oh yeah, I've been adding a whole bunch of pages.

It was all started when I wanted to create a complex taxonomic site map...which I did HERE. It's not finished by any means, many of the pages under the books are just placeholders until I can sit down and polish them. The other links will mainly direct you to either the page already set up, or the tag in which relates. That's another thing, I've added more tags to separate the posts on this blog. For example, all writer advice is going to be tagged as such, but will include another tag to differentiate what part of the writing process it covers...so in the site map you can click that specific option and get relevant information!

So that's about it! Lots of changes and additions, all in the hopes of creating more of a website feel whilst I am too poor to afford actual website building professionals. :/

Cheers!

-Belle