Sam Knight
@AuthorSamKnight
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Sam Knight has curated over a dozen anthologies, authored six children’s books, four short story collections, four novels, and over 75 short stories.
Colorado
Joined November 2012
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 for new authors: Everything is baby steps in writing. There is no fairytale where it all magically happens. Even those very few who make it "big" with their "first" book had to sit down and write it one word at a time. Keep realistic expectations.
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Today is the day! Come see us! Stock up on holiday reading for everyone! Have a beer! Talk books, movies, TV, and games with some of the biggest nerds around!
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips for new authors: The best way to learn is NOT the internet. It's from other authors who will tell it to you straight. Go to local events, meet local authors, be involved in your local writing community, and you will learn from others' mistakes.
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Tomorrow! Come find your next read and favorite author! Also, if you are a writer in the area of Colo Springs, or maybe even Pueblo or Southern Denver Metro, this would be a great place to start finding your local writing community!
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Tomorrow! Come find your next read and favorite author! Also, if you are a writer in the area of Colo Springs, or maybe even Pueblo or Southern Denver Metro, this would be a great place to start finding your local writing community!
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Two more days to go! Come see me Sunday afternoon! I'll be hanging out with an entire inkling of other writers who want to meet you!
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips for new authors: One of the hardest things about starting a writing career is getting people to leave a review. Be prepared when they say they will but never do. Also, never "sock puppet" your own reviews. It will come back to haunt you.
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips for new authors: It's okay if your entire idea is based upon a stuttered insult your brother messed up. Any idea is a place to start. What matters is where you go with it. Can you make that scene make sense within a story? Then write it! Payback!
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Once upon a time, I was at a small-town Christmas parade. I told my wife, "This reminds me of something..." She laughed. "That story you wrote last year?" https://t.co/HYLRTLCq1Y
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It's WordFire Wednesday! Enjoy 99¢ eBooks for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Bookfunnel App, and other electronic readers. The Best of Weird Tales 1926–1927, Deprivers, and Cults of Death and Madness. Happy reading! https://t.co/GrNecxHCR9
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My daughter just explained to me why she prefers 3rd person over 1st person—or as she calls it “when the narrator tells the story vs when the character tells the story—and now I’m tempted to change all of my projects from 1st to 3rd. #WritingCommunity
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips for new authors: "I bought the car from the salesman with a combover." An example of an insidious misplaced modifier. They seem fine when we write them and even when we read them again. Then a reader wants to know how a combover became currency...
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Direct Descent, by Frank Herbert, made the list of 17 Fictional Libraries in Fantasy Books That We Want to Visit. Check out this lineup. https://t.co/bIN7HwnkmC
#frankherbert #libraries #BooksToRead
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips for new authors: Writing is like building a house. No matter how many tools and supplies you have, how good they are, and how well planned out it all is, if you just enjoy looking at them and thinking about what to do, it will never get done.
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Just two days left. 99¢ eBook from Allen Drury. Continue the Advise and Consent series now! https://t.co/SeZVr5hGvw
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips for new authors: Bad writing advice is common. How can you tell if it's bad? Try it. If it doesn't work for you, it was bad. At least as far as you're concerned. It may be fine for someone else. We're all different. Just make sure you learn from it
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...my house feels like a house instead of a home like it had been when Coney and Dana were here with me. https://t.co/V4H6hRHO23
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The gingerbread baking in the oven smells great. The Christmas music is festive. The lights are lit on the tree, the gas fireplace is on, spreading a warm glow through my living room. And yet...
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@AuthorSamKnight's #writingtips for new authors: Do you really need another book on writing? Probably not. You probably didn't need the first one. But then, maybe you need them all. At the very least, seeing other ideas and points of view are valuable, even if you reject them.
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