Randa Goode's Blog

All right! I know you have all been patiently waiting…well, most of you anyways. And here is the news: Seeing Scarlett (Book 2 in the Scarlett Series) is currently being reviewed by some dear writer/editor friends. After that there are a few more steps, then it will be on the virtual bookshelf and ready for [...]

It seems as if most of everyone I know already knows this, so I might as well share it with the rest of the world. Today I turned *cough, cough* forty. I really didn’t think it was going to be that big of a deal. I mean, I didn’t feel forty, and in my warped [...]

Nov • el [nov-uh l] noun 1. a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes. 2. physical proof of the months, and sometimes years, writers have spent in imaginary places. 3. a transportation device capable of taking the reader into the world [...]

mem • oir [mem-wahr] noun 1. a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation. 2. a biography or biographical sketch. 3. a story where you leave all the boring parts out, enhance the truth enough to make it interesting, and swear that it all happened [...]

lit • er • al • ly [lit-er-uh-lee] 1. actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy: The city was literally destroyed. 2. one of the quickest way to annoy a writer when used incorrectly: I literally screamed my head off. (Oh, really? Did you?) 3. another swift way to annoy a writer when used unnecessarily: I literally [...]

Kin • dred [kin-drid] 1. natural relationship; affinity 2. having the same belief, attitude, or feeling: We are kindred spirits on the issue of the need for bookstores. 3.the overwhelming feeling of belonging and connection writers feel toward others writers 4. the sense of knowing the character in a favorite book so well that you [...]

Jug • gle [jugh-uh l] 1. to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching 2. to manage or alternate the requirements of (two or more tasks, responsibilities, activities, etc.) so as to handle each adequately: to juggle the obligations of job and [...]

In • se • cu • ri • ty [in-si kyoo r-i-tee] 1. lack of confidence or assurance; self-doubt: He is plagued by insecurity about his writing. 2. the feeling most writers have about their talent at one point or another 3. the fear that some published writers have that their previous works may be [...]

Hu • mor [hyoo-mer] noun 1. a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement 2. an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous: The humor in his joke eluded the audience. 3. the stories we laugh at because we are just so happy it is happening to someone else Writer’s [...]

Gram • mar [gram-er] noun 1. the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax 2. a device, as a body of rules, whose output is all of the sentences that are permissible in an given language, while excluding all those that are not permissible 3. when used incorrectly [...]