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The Earth Eclectic Music Award offers $1,000 in recognition of music created in relationship with Earth, with support from @GaianWay

The award honors:
• Independent #musicians
• Indigenous and land-based #storytellers
• Experimental #composers
• Genre-fluid #creators
• Sound artists exploring #ecology

Re-releases, remasters, and remixes are welcome, and self-nominations are encouraged.

Nominations will be accepted until April 22 / Earth Day at eartheclectic.org

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author 23h ago

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Keep research notes for your b...

Keep research notes for your book organized

If you’ve adequately researched your nonfiction book, then you probably have so many notes that organizing them is a must. Unless you do so, the writing of your first draft won’t go smoothly.The be…

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Should you always follow ‘rule...

Should you always follow ‘rules’ of writing?

Show don’t tellUse active voiceTell the story in present tenseAs a writer, you’ve probably heard these and a thousand other “rules” about writing. As an editor, I’ve certainly advised them as well.…

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Avoid reader confusion by anch...

Avoid reader confusion by anchoring story

Readers beginning a story need to know where and when the tale occurs. This establishment of the story’s place and time in the first few paragraphs of the story sometimes is referred to as anchorin…

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Destage dramatic action that s...

Destage dramatic action that slows your story

If your story seems to be moving slowly, you may need to destage some of the action.A term borrowed from theater and coined by CSFW’s Steve Popkes, destaging occurs when the author moves what has b…

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Astrobach

6d ago

Tonight's stories will feature translations by:

@SimonRoyHughes

Simon's translations can be purchased here: https://
ko-fi.com/simonroyhughes/shop
Simon's Books can be purchased here: https://www.
amazon.ca/Simon-Roy-Hughes/e/B01MFGZOUH/

Please consider supporting the work of #translators! You get great stories every month for a couple of bucks.

#Storytellers like me really depend on translators, so if you like what I do, that's a major part of the infrastructure I need to do it!

Rob Bignell, Editor/Author 6d ago

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Unique definitions: Discreet v...

Unique definitions: Discreet vs. discrete

Sometimes, flipping a letter in a word can lead to quite radical results – like an entirely different definition. Such is the case with discreet vs. discrete.Discreet means to conduct oneself in a …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author 6d ago

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author 6d ago

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Place ‘said’ after speaker’s n...

Place ‘said’ after speaker’s name

Does placing said before or after attribution – as in Thales said or said Thales – matter?The answer in large part depends upon how it sounds in particular sentence. Given that, how a reader respon…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author Mar 22

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Five Great Quotations about Po...

Five Great Quotations about Poetry

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, en…

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