So as a little teaser for Chapter One on Wednesday. Here’s the tentative titles for books 2 & 3:
Book 2
Mantera – A Human World
Book 3
Elnias – Wyn’s Province
Thanks for reading and following!
Oh and btw? It’s T-minus 4 days (again, apparently I can’t count) until we Leap Into Chapter One!
So I’d like to up my web presence. And have a few ideas.
For every ten likes I get on my facebook page I will post a poem I wrote in my childhood (or an excerpt from one as some are pages long). I’m sure some of you other writers out there know that looking back on these can be both very eye opening and funny. Right now I’m at 20, so please like me on my page – let’s get it up to 30 and beyond. And thank you in advance. Danielle Mathieson Pederson on facebook.
I’d also like to increase the number of members on my websites. In that vein I’ve decided that for both of my blogs every time my member list hits a multiple of five I will write a sonnet. And not just any sonnet, I’ll write either a Petrarchan or a Shakespearian sonnet on any random topic a commenter gives me. It could get very funny and interesting! So please make sure to join this site or my other blog DanielleWAM or both. 😀
I think this could really be a lot of fun, so talk it up! 😀
Oh and btw? It’s T-minus 4 days until we Leap Into Chapter One!
UPDATE: I no longer have enough childhood poems to catch up with the number of likes I have on facebook! Crazy! So yes that’s a bit of a negative because I won’t be posting more poems, but yay for a ton of likes! So I’ll have to put my brain to work and find some other way to promote my author page on facebook. Thanks everyone! (btw I’ll probably be posting the full LOTR poem that I put up just the first stanza for. 😀 )
So as of right now I am a member of two different writers groups. One is here in Kamloops, and the other is in Calgary where I used to live and will be moving back to this summer or fall.
These groups are: (if you haven’t already checked them out in my handy dandy box this way>> )
IFWA – The Imaginative Fiction Writers Association – Calgary
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IAG – Interior Authors Group – Kamloops
Why do I love them and think they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread? Because you get to meet other writers. You can bounce your ideas off someone else’s head. You hear amazing other stories. It’s that much easier to learn all about writing and publishing and the whozits and whatzits of the writing world. All of a sudden you don’t feel so isolated.
Sure blogs are a great thing, there’s lots of research and online friends and groups you can join. I love this and I love discovering new writers and awesome new blogs. But nothing can beat a straight up idea, hashing out, promotion or dishing on a new book session face to face with another writer.
The best part? Both of these group are extremely reasonable for their membership fees (especially when you consider the extreme amount of zeros in many other writer groups, conferences etc.)
IAG is designed for any writers from all walks of life and they meet once a month. It’s an amazing thing to discover this whole other group of people existed in a town you call home.
IFWA also meets once a month and it is for writers whose works have some sort of speculative element. This means there needs to be some sort of ghosts, zombies, vampires, unicorns, fairies, werewolves, aliens -you get the drift- in your writing. Things that don’t exist in real life but in the world of your writing they do.
Here’s hoping that all writers wherever you are find someone you can meet with face to face who loves writing just as much as you do. 😀
If not, know that there are lots of blogs just like mine, where all us writers stick together.
Cheers to all those groups that support such a wonderful art!
Oh and btw? It T-minus 5 days to Leap Into Chapter One!
Read, read, read and read some more. And with these bookmarks keep your place in those books you love. Anyone who comments on my Chapter One when I post it up on Feb 29th has a chance to win these! It’s open internationally so post from anywhere. Here they are:
The quotes on the bookmarks are:
Far left – Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away
2nd from left – Dare to Go Far
3rd from left – Faith Hope Love The greatest of these is love
Oh and btw? It’s T-minus 6 days until we can Leap Into Chapter One!
So I’ve just had it confirmed that I will be doing a 10 min segment on Radio NL’s Jim Harrison Show on 610 AM here in Kamloops BC and I couldn’t be more excited! I’ll be on air on Tues Feb 28 from 9:08am to 9:18am. I’ll be talking all about Leap Into Chapter One On Leap Day and possibly even doing a Q&A about writing at the same time.
You can access the website to Radio NL here. Make sure that even if you’re not in Kamloops go there on Feb 28 and click ‘Listen Live’ (top right corner) to hear the segment! Thanks for all the support from everyone.
Oh and btw? It’s T-minus 7 days until we can Leap Into Chapter One!
If you want more info on Leap Into Chapter One On Leap Day click the tab above ^^
I’ll be posting every day until the big day – pics, sneak peaks, writing articles, writers’ groups + more – so keep reading!
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