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When I’m working on a new book, I handwrite most of it.  Once it’s time to digitize, typing becomes a chore, especially since my typing accuracy isn’t great. Google’s new Lens app feature may streamline that process. According to the online hype, you can scan your handwriting and send it directly to Google docs on …

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Step-by-step instructions to edit Instagram posts and comments. In the PC/Android world, there are some Instagram activities you can do on your stand-alone computer and some exclusive to your smartphone. Box = Stand-alone computer/laptop Phone = Smartphone Use your phone to make Instagram post edits Click on the post you wish to edit. Click on …

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Randy Scott is an independent author I’ve enjoyed visiting with at both Sierra Writers meetings and at the 2019 Sierra Writers Conference. Randy’s guest post shares his editing process, tools, techniques, and tenacity. Randy has written and independently published three contemporary action adventure novels. Knowing that Indies have a reputation for producing typo-riddled work, Randy’s …

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What Critique Groups do for Your Writing Life by Ingrid Keriotis If we wish to have a creative component in our lives, we should be willing to put our work out there once in a while, for good or bad, and say “Here it is.” read more Sierra Writers Guidelines for Starting a Critique Group …

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Can you recite the alphabet backward? Have you bungee jumped over the Rio Grande, eaten insects, or dressed in a chicken suit? Fun Facts open playful gateway connections with your audience. The factoids you share should blend with your writing subject. The academician or nonfiction author wishing to book speaking engagements might choose conference opening style …

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  Nevada County student writers shine in the Seedlings chapbook. Seedlings is a Sierra Writers publication featuring winning entries from the 2018 Young Writers Competition (YWC). On the first weekend of the Fall Colors Open Studios Tour, studio #30 (off Newtown & Discovery Roads) will feature the chapbook. “Seedlings will help area teachers prepare students … Continue reading Seedling Cultivation during 2018 Open Studios Tour – Nevada County Language Arts →