Sam Knight has curated over a dozen anthologies, authored six children’s books, four short story collections, four novels, and over 75 short stories.
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6 May 2019
Look what I just found in my files... My daughter wrote this around 2007, when she was around 6 years old.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: Some people think they don't have to read to be a writer. Consider this: Could you never have listened to music and write a song? Could you paint a pastoral scene if you'd never seen a painting? Sure you could! But do you think they would be good?
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Jun 13
You know what irritates me more than the AI spam about how great my book was and they want it for something? The fact that there is no evidence a copy was purchased for the AI to have read and analyzed…
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: The "industry standard" is MS Word. I'm sorry to say that MS Word on Mac, Google Docs, and all others I know of are hit or miss. 99% compatible at best. You WILL run into problems with formatting and using edits and comments.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: An editor's opinion is just an opinion. Hopefully an informed one. Whether you agree with them or not, look it up, figure it out, decide for yourself. Right or wrong, you'll be better off in the long run if you understand why they thought that.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: Writing is hard. If you feel like you can't "hold it all in your head" to get a story down on paper, try short stories. Or flash fiction. A drabble (100 word story). Like jokes, a story has setup then punchline (ending). Doesn't have to be funny.
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Some words of wisdom shared by Martin L. Shoemaker and Gama Ray Martinez.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: What's a pen name? Freedom. Burden. Confusion with others, association with things you didn't do, imposition on people with that name, a responsibility to not ruin that name. Think twice. Choose carefully. Maybe don't unless you have to.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: Inspiration is all around. What may not be is something that interests you. If you're suffering from writer's block, try randomly picking something and doing a deep dive into it. If you have an idea already, dive into that and learn all you can.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: Sometimes it's okay to be weird. Sometimes it's okay to take a break. Sometimes it's okay to be obsessive. Sometimes it's okay to be impulsive. Sometimes it's okay to not be you. Sometimes when someone else tells you what to be, it is okay say no.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: How to write: sit down and write. While you're at it, tell a story. When you're done, read it and fix the mistakes. Rinse and repeat. Each time you do this, you will get better at it. The stories will get better. The writing will get better.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: Put it in your pocket and save it for later. Not the idea you just had. That really nice thing someone said about your writing. There will be a ton of stuff that beats you down. When that happens, pull out that nice thing and look at it again.
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Happy Birthday Knight Writing Press (Kind of...)
Although I created Knight Writing Press in 2013 ( I think) to self-publish some of my works, five years ago, a group of my friends helped me with an experiment to see if I could be a publisher...
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Once upon a time we had a friend who raised a lot of money for a puppy rescue with an anthology. Over 80% of the proceeds of THIS anthology go to her widow. If it interests you at all, please consider purchasing or gifting copies. Miss you, LJ... books2read.com/u/38v1ZV #pride
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: Don't trust AI to tell you how to use a punctuation mark or proper grammar. I have seen the AI summary contradict itself in the same definition while simultaneously being wrong both times. AI is not ready for primetime. Don't trust it.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: Truth is stranger than fiction. Why? Because when you write fiction, you have to make it make sense, or readers don't like it. But real life often makes no sense at all. Which is why so many of us love to escape into fiction. Make it make sense.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: It is okay to write things out of order, but when you do, close read-through follow up edits are a must. Things change in your head as you write, and sometimes you don't realize/can't see for yourself something that has become inconsistent.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: If you mention a character is hungry, has to pee, is too hot, cold, tired, weak, dizzy, or anything that can be debilitating, you have to resolve it, or it can distract your reader for the rest of the story as they wait to finally get to pee...
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: If you don't write it, it won't get written. It doesn't have to be perfect, that's what editing is for. But if you don't write it, you can't edit it either...
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips: There is a theory that ideas are out there in the æther, everywhere, and if you have a good one, a bunch of other people just had the same one too. If you are not quick, someone else will have already wrote it, made a movie, painted it, etc.
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May 10
Today on Home Depot adventure: Returns! What happens when you have 5 "wait to be called" signs, 6 employees behind the counter, and 4 people in line? 1 employee deals with it all while the other 5 fo! Family fun for all! Don't miss it!
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