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Mentor a Young Writer

I encourage all of you to mentor a young writer. In this day of truncated words, abbreviations that can barely be understood without a lexicon of texting in your back pocket and less face to face time, it is important to preserve the English Language. How as writers do we accomplish this? We write, and […]

I Did It — Here Begins a Childrens Book

By scotthhendricks February 25, 2013 4 Comments

Alas, I didn’t get any prompts for my first foray into a children’s book from my yesterday post. So after a busy day of cheering for my favorite drivers in the Daytona 500 (both lost but both lead for a while during the race) ant then I helping my wife muck out a storage closet […]

How Do You Begin Your Books?

By scotthhendricks February 13, 2013 Leave a comment

Authors are all unique and a one of a kind character. Don’t you wish you had a character in your next book who was exactly like you? In my case, I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone! That lead me to the question that began this blog post: How do you begin your books? In other […]

Pagan Mirth, a follow up

By scotthhendricks January 29, 2013 Leave a comment

A few months ago, I started writing a new novel called Pagan Mirth. At first I used the working title of “The Far Side of Midnight”. As I continued to write the book, that title didn’t seem to fit. One night at my writer’s group, I got a writing prompt of “Pagan Mirth”. We had […]

Practicing Our Art, Our Craft

By scotthhendricks January 18, 2013 1 Comment

When was the last time your practice your art of writing, just for the fun of it? So far I have no comments left behind on my posts. So here is an opportunity. The last time I practiced my art was this morning. It happens that I really like writing my current endeavor “Pagan Mirth”. […]

How Do You Write?

By scotthhendricks January 17, 2013 Leave a comment

I am a journal and pen type of writer. On Tuesday night of this week, to be more specific January 14, 2013 I attended my writer’s group. Before anyone else showed up I got a mug of dark roast coffee, plugged in some old albums of Bob Dylan that I have stored on my MP3 […]

Scott H. Hendricks, Author