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How to Visit Nara’s Nook Virtual Worlds
Nara’s Nook is a place where authors, readers and story characters interact in a virtual simulation. What you will find at Nara’s Nook: A community of folks who love books and storytelling: Writers, readers, musicians and artists join with us in exploring fiction and its future. Reader adventures. Writer resources Book centered activities: Book centered parties, events and community projects to participate in. How do you get there?I created a Virtual Writer’s and Reader’s Colony. It is designed for writers and readers new to virtual worlds. It’s a safe place to learn how to get around. You can meet up with other folks who love books, find a quiet corner…
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Metaverse Muses: The Oracle
A common meme passed from writer to writer is that you can’t wait on inspiration to write. Supposedly, you must plant your butt in the chair and bang out drivel until something useful shows up on the page. I don’t see that either waiting for inspiration or pouring out pages of glop to find the good stuff is terribly efficient. One is a static method of waiting on the muse and the other active. It’s all waiting. Why can’t you just go out and hunt down the inspiration you need? Or, my preferred method, conjure inspiration from pixels. Not all of my muses look the same. I think I have…
WIP: Daring to be Different
Trella Dare from Storm Runners–a Game-4-Love book Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).– Mark Twain: Notebook, 1904 I like exploring boundaries and discovering new ways to do things. Some folks are really happy with consistency and familiarity. That’s okay, but if you’re an author trying to get your book seen in the 35 million + books on Amazon, you might try, just once, going outside your comfort zone and doing something no one else is doing. For the first few years of my publishing career I was confined by what my publisher was willing to allow, and…
