Showing posts with label authors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label authors. Show all posts
NaNoWriMo Begins : Novel Writing Challenge
It's finally November and that can mean only one thing (other than it being Movember) - It's National Novel Writing Month!
The Color of Music : Excerpt : Chapter Two
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'The Color of Music' is a story of separately raised identical twins who come to discover their musical heritage through their growing years. Self-published author Claire Gordon shares Chapter Two with readers at Downright Fiction.
The Color of Music : An Excerpt
Author Claire Gordon shares with our readers a chapter from her self-published novel, 'The Color of Music,' a story of separately raised identical twins who come to discover their musical heritage through their growing years.Claire began her career with the jazz industry as a secretary for Duke Ellington and even went on to bring together Nat King Cole and her songwriter husband Irving Gordon to record the song "Unforgettable" that Gordon wrote for her.
The subject of twins always intrigued Claire because she was raised with another child her own age; creating a feeling of being a twin.
The Color of Music : How Claire Gordon came to Self-Publish
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| Author Claire Gordon : The Color of Music |
Nothing in her middle-class Los Angeles childhood suggested that Claire Gordon would form an abiding interest in jazz. But by the age of 14, the signs were there. She discovered the music of Duke Ellington and other jazz artists, all while in her teens!
The first major artist to enter her life was singer Maxine Sullivan, who became a life-long friend. Others followed - Nat "King" Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, pianists Art Tatum and Mary Lou Williams, disc jockeys, song writers, more artists, and other jazz buffs.
Fiction Pick : The Color of Music
Here at Downright Fiction, the parallel between music and fiction - and their inter-connection - has always been a topic of interest.
Author of My Unforgettable Jazz Friends, Boy Meets Horn and Marshal Royal: Jazz Survivor - Claire Gordon’s self-published ‘The Color of Music’ brings music into the writing, and we couldn't find a better book to kick off our new fiction picks section!
The Doorway: From Mind to Paper (Screen)
An interesting thing about writing stuff down instantly when it comes to mind, is that it’s in its purest form. You make notes, you think thoughts - quotes stick with you, sometimes its just a phrase that someone says that starts to ring true. Downright Fiction is bringing you that very platform: to speak your mind.
After having talked about a bunch of things over the last few weeks, I’m going straight to the core of DF, which is that we don’t really want you to compromise on your work. I say this because we go through bodies of thought that encourage us to write tightly, well punctuated and often easy to read words, lesser syllables that don’t irritate a reader. We hear about pieces making a hell of a difference once they’re revised, edited and de-bulked over a thousand times. And after last week’s discussion – I’m not going to keep drilling that point into your head – but I just want you to know that if its on your sheet of paper, just like you thought it in your mind – Send that in.
I’m not saying revising is a bad idea. You probably have your own method of reading through your work and updating as you go along and/or you decide just before hitting "publish" that there needs to be a more appropriate closure statement.
We want you to believe in what you write, because there's a world of people out there who know how to imitate, and replicate the 'right' way to say things - but not a lot of people who stick to their things when they said them right the first place around.
I’m just saying don’t apologize for your writing.
If you believe that you have your way to say something – then that IS the right way.
Period.
I hope you're thinking something as you read this. Why not write about it?
After having talked about a bunch of things over the last few weeks, I’m going straight to the core of DF, which is that we don’t really want you to compromise on your work. I say this because we go through bodies of thought that encourage us to write tightly, well punctuated and often easy to read words, lesser syllables that don’t irritate a reader. We hear about pieces making a hell of a difference once they’re revised, edited and de-bulked over a thousand times. And after last week’s discussion – I’m not going to keep drilling that point into your head – but I just want you to know that if its on your sheet of paper, just like you thought it in your mind – Send that in.
I’m not saying revising is a bad idea. You probably have your own method of reading through your work and updating as you go along and/or you decide just before hitting "publish" that there needs to be a more appropriate closure statement.
We want you to believe in what you write, because there's a world of people out there who know how to imitate, and replicate the 'right' way to say things - but not a lot of people who stick to their things when they said them right the first place around.
I’m just saying don’t apologize for your writing.
If you believe that you have your way to say something – then that IS the right way.
Period.
I hope you're thinking something as you read this. Why not write about it?
Bring on the Masterpieces !
Hello All,
If you've been recommended by a friend and/or have received a direct e-mail from us, thank you for visiting. We're excited to have you on board !
Let's get straight to it then !
For our First 'issue' , we're going Footloose and Fancy. If you have something you've been writing or have been working on, send it in and let's get spreading that word.
What does that mean to you?
It's pretty simple actually, We are an e-magazine that'll help you bring your work to a readership that we're going to build together. This helps you get an audience for your work and it allows you to read fellow-writers' works thus allowing you to learn from other's works and help you find your writers voice.
You might already have pieces you've scribbled, rambled and scratched out in your notebooks. Okay, sure, millions of drafts in documents sound more like what you'll have, but you get the idea ! This is where you get to experiment with your creative juices and who knows where that can go right?
So send in your pieces, which will be published under the name you chose (pen-names / screen-names allowed) and let's see how much fun this can grow on to be.
Feel free to send queries to team.downrightfiction@gmail.com
We do encourage you to send pieces that you have already done, and hopefully not published before. We take creative copyright seriously and hope that you will not indulge in passing off other's works as your own.
If you need help with things you wish to write about, send us a note and we'll see how we can help you.
Good Luck!
The Ed
If you've been recommended by a friend and/or have received a direct e-mail from us, thank you for visiting. We're excited to have you on board !
Let's get straight to it then !
For our First 'issue' , we're going Footloose and Fancy. If you have something you've been writing or have been working on, send it in and let's get spreading that word.
What does that mean to you?
It's pretty simple actually, We are an e-magazine that'll help you bring your work to a readership that we're going to build together. This helps you get an audience for your work and it allows you to read fellow-writers' works thus allowing you to learn from other's works and help you find your writers voice.
You might already have pieces you've scribbled, rambled and scratched out in your notebooks. Okay, sure, millions of drafts in documents sound more like what you'll have, but you get the idea ! This is where you get to experiment with your creative juices and who knows where that can go right?
So send in your pieces, which will be published under the name you chose (pen-names / screen-names allowed) and let's see how much fun this can grow on to be.
Feel free to send queries to team.downrightfiction@gmail.com
We do encourage you to send pieces that you have already done, and hopefully not published before. We take creative copyright seriously and hope that you will not indulge in passing off other's works as your own.
If you need help with things you wish to write about, send us a note and we'll see how we can help you.
Good Luck!
The Ed
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