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Scribes Blog Carnival

by JM

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Welcome to the April 7, 2008 edition of Scribes.

We have another good month of submissions, which I hope you enjoy and find useful. Remember to send in your links before the last Thursday of April to get your links in the May edition.

Joshua Dodson presents Free eBook of Sentience with Kinesthesia (Poetry) posted at Fragmentist, saying, “Joshua @ Fragmentist is giving away a free poetry eBook.”

Orna Ross presents St Patrick’s Day in Glendalough posted at WRITING ADVICE & PUBLISHING ADVICE from Font, saying, “novelist celebrates end of the book by writing poem!”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Poems About Poems posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog, saying, “A limerick about writing haiku and a haiku about writing limericks.”

Fiction

Jesse presents Grey Survivors posted at Grey Survivors, saying, “A journal of one mans survival of the invasion of Earth by sort of tiny grey things.”

Aaron Powell presents The Hole: A Serial Novel of Supernatural Apocalypse by Aaron Ross Powell posted at The Hole: A Serial Novel.

Cheryl Snell presents Bad Blood posted at Scattered Light, saying, “This story helped to spark my novel, Shiva’s Arms.”

Writing Advice

Brent Diggs presents The Secret to Writing Humor posted at Humor Blogging.

Gina Cacace presents All In: Risk in Writing posted at Gina Cacace, saying, “A post about authenticity and the writing process for my latest piece of short fiction.”

babs mountjoy presents Why do we write? posted at Awalkabout’s Weblog, saying, “We write for many reasons…but some of us can’t help it.”

Catherine Johnson presents Editorial Advice: To Listen or Not posted at Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace, saying, “Every writer needs editorial advice, but the question is how do you know when you’ve received enough feedback? It’s a tough call.”

Tip Diva presents Tip Diva | Top Ten Tips - Beating Writer’s Block posted at Tip Diva, saying, “When Tip Diva is not thinking of advice and how-tos for this website, she writes for a trade magazine. Writing for both a magazine and a blog can be pretty taxing on her brain, and she sometimes finds herself continuously staring at a blank Word document. Writer’s block happens to the best of us, but there are some ways you can beat it.”

Orna Ross presents Writing A Novel: 10 Top Tips posted at WRITING ADVICE & PUBLISHING ADVICE from Font, saying, “Writing tips from authors such as Marian Keyes, Ernest Hemingway, Lawrence Block, Joyce carol Oates…. and a little from Font too!”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of scribes using our carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.


3 Responses to “Scribes Blog Carnival”

  1. Cheryl Snell Says:

    Thank you, thank you!
    I’m so pleased that you chose my story, Bad Blood. Now I’m ready to dig into all these great offerings.

  2. JM Says:

    It was a pleasure as always. :)

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