tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-680909130474284752024-03-13T12:22:37.488-07:00Blob, Blob, and BloggingHow to write and edit a story!BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-19832671957312216242023-12-18T16:49:00.000-08:002023-12-18T16:49:28.800-08:00May you have the BEST of BEST in your life. BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-9665237724540561362023-12-09T15:29:00.000-08:002023-12-09T16:24:39.335-08:00Book Promotions Rhyonna's Fright will be on promotion at Smashword for 2$ with this coupon #LN37G until January 31st.Damsels Overcome will be on promotion with Smashwords for 2$ with the coupon#GU45B until January 31st.BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-14194945978020103982021-08-30T11:00:00.089-07:002021-11-04T11:59:30.553-07:00Released --> Damsels Overcome Here is where to buy! Smashwords Stores for mobi, epub and PDF files Apple Store for epubBarns&Nobles > Nook, paperback, hardback Overdrive < if you have the app Baker and Taylor's, axis 306 < if you have the app kobo !ndigo Google Play odilo > must login Scribd > must be memberAmazon > BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-82750497608840451582021-08-22T13:33:00.004-07:002021-08-28T16:29:48.042-07:00Success as a writer is having the book in hand. Read other BlogsI define success as a writer as holding the book in my hands after years of writing, cover design, all the edits, all the formatting corrections, and the distribution settled: hardcover paperback, modi and ePub for the many bookstores online and walk-ins. One long time to birth a book, almost like birthing a child; --> then all the care and worries of growth and BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-4027957530612191842021-06-04T17:15:00.000-07:002021-08-11T17:16:32.014-07:00Incubation of a story How long do I shelve my first draft, before reading the manuscript and re-drafting? Sometimes 10 years, the elves have waited since 2005, I did do a bit in 2012 then got busy with my fairytale of 25 years and much beyond start in 1986 and finish 2014 - many adventures inbetween; gardening, computer death and all saved files, storytelling, then the door open for self-publishing and so BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-57046552149941957582021-05-05T12:22:00.002-07:002023-01-11T16:28:00.668-08:00Understanding of males as Knights in Shining ArmorOne of my e-mail readers commented on a statement about my attitude in a book I'm writing in a way that I did not expect. The male's response was about my understanding of males, and who they were, and why they do what they do, which did surprise me? I was not commenting what a male thinks, not exactly.I am commenting about my attitude about the 'Knight in Shining Armor' assuming they are all BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-70052494323080861972021-04-04T16:56:00.003-07:002021-08-09T19:32:21.728-07:00 I am a risk-taker when writing stories. I am a risk-taker when writing. I have a radically different style and add a controversial personal topic to my storytelling and writings. I want to present a more charted presentation - words are overused especially details of a picture. The reader, listener or the viewer has their set of images, they bring to the story. Let them participate. In my writing the transitions from story to story areBobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-8639623065471529752021-03-02T15:30:00.001-08:002021-03-03T10:52:08.202-08:00What motivates my reading choice?My reading is widely within the genre FANTASY or MAGICAL REALISM while I create stories for the genre Bildungsroman. Quoted from David Mamet teacher at MasterClass in Dramatic Literature at Master Writing, "Bildungsroman is a literary genre of stories about a character growing
psychologically and morally from their youth into adulthood. Generally,
they experience a profound emotional lossBobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-37054219140806477432021-02-05T17:53:00.009-08:002021-04-05T14:39:59.668-07:00 Special Friendships Made through BloggingFriends
through the blogosphere are friends I met in the physical sphere as professional the storytellers and writers, and we carried the friendship to their blogs. WE never really discussed in the physical sphere what they said on their blogs. Read the Blogs!The best place for blogging and friends is Wattpad.com. These friends have followed me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and my BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-43736083418625990782021-01-21T14:22:00.007-08:002021-08-09T19:30:38.435-07:00Damsels Overcome soon in bookstores Both males and females are important in social norms. I'm making a case about the male narratives that dominate - take the fable Turtle and the Hare; all characters males. Masculine pronouns lock us into male narratives and male norms. DAMSELS OVERCOME has 20 folktales from different times and many countries. Included are blurbs about my identity and dispute with the narratives about BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-5637238814243406262021-01-04T13:44:00.003-08:002021-04-05T14:38:47.253-07:00Why I don't finish reading a book!Being a writer, when am I reading someone else's work, I stop reading because these frustrate my reading; too much backstory, long descriptions that are not necessary for the story, and the dialogue much too long like a lecture, or too short, or not with the character's personality.READ more BLOGSThese stop me because I had too many writing classes and told too many stories. One might say BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-25833216850508233462020-12-03T15:38:00.002-08:002020-12-03T22:33:44.588-08:00The time of the year that is my best writing time.SPRING, when plants grow and surge from the earth is my best writing time. My ideals have germinated during the winter and now ready to break to the surface of the page. This is when I use NaNoWriCamp and A2Z Blogging Challenge in April to complete the story I began at the last July NaNoWriCamp and the Clarion Write-a-Thon. I need these programs to help me focus and complete my projects, I need aBobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-18479348930071907122020-11-02T13:40:00.009-08:002021-04-05T14:20:21.064-07:00Why do I write what I write? From the creators of The Insecure Writer's Support Group,Albert Camus once said, “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Flannery O’Conner said, “I write to discover what I know.” SO ← why do I write and tell traditional tales and myths? I write and tell to inform readers and listeners of the other worlds of yesterday and how these worlds affect or BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-59470510154147755022020-10-08T13:18:00.002-07:002021-04-05T14:41:30.176-07:00Looking at the 'Working Writer'The term working writer looks to me as two words that are saying the same. I think they mean working on writing words.I see myself as a working writer, working editor, and working publisher, who is aspired to write and finish projects for others to read and hear. I have a message. To write is to work words into sentences, then the paragraph, next pages, and into a story, or lecture, or essayBobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-83189232616559028502020-09-02T17:14:00.010-07:002021-05-05T12:27:59.397-07:00One beta partner to help with my stories. If I could choose one author, living or dead, to be my beta partner, this would be . . . >>> the one who inspired me while studying storytelling, Joseph Campbell, the great analyzer of stories, the Mythical Journey is necessary for most storytelling. He is a bit to understand and does make stunning correlations. Read BloggersI read his books and watched his videos and even the BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-61760995552612046062020-08-04T17:35:00.003-07:002021-04-05T14:26:59.082-07:00Folktales linked together create my genre.Grouping folktale, legends, and myth became a form, even a genre for interconnected stories I told. The more I wondered about the date and characters in the Asian Art Museum galleries, the more I needed a frame, sequence for telling the myths, legends, and folktales as I carved a path from statues of art the better my stories related. On a stage for one to two, hours most storytellers connect BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-66606623443134802132020-07-01T16:31:00.000-07:002020-07-05T12:53:17.299-07:00Changes needed in self-publishing!
Insecure Support
1) More opportunities for photos and drawings within the text for epubs and mobi. We are a visual mind.
2) Too many marketers saying the same things over and over and charging more money need a new model for advertising.
3) The little guy starts an ideal and then jumped by the bigger markets and peddlers of junk come. Then all the changes rushed at BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-62391219370634301372020-06-27T18:41:00.004-07:002020-09-09T18:01:01.901-07:00My Work Partner
My work partner is my computer.
What a complicated character is the computer? Not an old character, most likely about 36 years old. Its development was a bit older so let's say about 42. So what does this character do for storytelling 1) writes, 2) records, 3) videotapes, 4) prints projects, 5) shares links, 6) shares messages, and 7) shares emails around the virtual expandable vast web. BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-61101353684117755562020-06-19T13:09:00.000-07:002020-06-19T13:09:18.773-07:00No new stories only repeats of the same plots.The storytellers have for centuries, forever, told traditional stories that have a simple plot: “Once upon a time there lived so-and-so in a land far away.” The time, characters, place settled then to the event to solve, climax, and conclusion. Simple! The ancient fable Hare and the Turtle, The set-up – careful Turtle slower that the over-confident Hare; event - a race; final event – arrogant BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-4405486772111539382020-06-03T12:57:00.003-07:002021-04-05T14:33:21.295-07:00I have a secret about my writing, something few know.I have secrets my readers would never know from my work?
I think they would if taught from the DICK, JANE. and SALLY the reader book for first and second grades. Called SITE reading from the PICTURES. Look at the picture: what do you see? what are they doing this? who do you see? where is this happening? and how are they doing this? I can still see the pictures and not the words on the other BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-77088429433659634012020-05-02T14:22:00.002-07:002021-04-07T12:33:40.176-07:00 I have rituals to enter the ZONE of writing!
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My RITUAL for WRITINGWell, usually sitting in a chair outside in the fresh air watching the birds, which are the muses for my writing. These spirits squall, sing, dash about, rest in a tree, or quietly sit on a nest, maybe even watch me watching them. They could be shape-shifters, waiting.
I'm taken into their InBetween, my reality mixes with theirs - I find I'm BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-45258600351138564232020-04-02T22:29:00.003-07:002021-04-07T12:36:33.362-07:00My world with Covid-19?
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My world is holding up. I feel tired because of all the fighting about what, when, where and who is running the show. At this time nemesis, Covid-19 is in the limelight and steals all the action while the other characters fight to see who will be heard.
I do not want to die, I have many, many stories to edit.
This month I'm in the A2Z Blog BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-52267271341233516482020-03-10T15:49:00.001-07:002020-03-12T12:36:50.707-07:00THE STORY REALM: AtoZ Challenge, CAMPNaNoWri DARE!
THE STORY REALM: AtoZ Challenge, CAMPNaNoWri DARE!
During the month of April 2020, after writing with CAMPNaNoWri a story a day, THAT IS 27 STORIES, will post on StoryRealm for the A2Z Blog Challenge and the full stories on Wattpad.com or as a PDF from google drive. Story, Story, STORY!BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-23534693736777292612020-03-04T13:35:00.000-08:002020-03-21T10:21:32.641-07:00Family traditions and customs are included in my stories. Including family traditions and customs in my stories is what makes them real.
The fun of writing is telling what I know. My life as analogies or metaphors are in my characters, usually the ole grandma, auntie or cousin names changed, places changed, and time changed.
The stories of elves, trolls, pixies, fairies spirits and unwanted guests came from different places and times to the BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com2United States34.396071792080029 -120.563543406429298.8622007920800279 -161.87213740642929 59.929942792080027 -79.25494940642929tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68090913047428475.post-48023939431396039992020-02-04T16:10:00.003-08:002020-02-26T15:40:52.991-08:00Has a photo inspired my writing?
watching a river flow
A real-life view inspires my writing. A photo is static and seen through a frame while a view from a high rock looking into a valley with a river emerging through evergreen trees offers decisions, or resting under a tree by the river with the light flickering through the leaves and branches, or sitting in a rocking chair looking at the birds and foliage of plants mingle BobbieTaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833789318967057991noreply@blogger.com4