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I’ve Been Nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award! #FeelingSmug

Thanks so much to Suesreadingcorner! Take a moment to check out her fantastic blog (you won’t regret it!)

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So how does this Blogger Recognition Award work?

Here are the rules….

1. Select 15 other blogs you want to give this award to. Do some digging if you must! Find those blogs. You cannot nominate yourself of the person who has nominated you.
2. Write a post to show off your award! Give a brief story of how your blog got started, and give a piece or two advice to new bloggers. List who nominated you in your post. Make sure to attach the award yourself!
3. Comment on each blog to let them know you’ve nominated them. Provide a link to your award post.
4. Provide a link to the original post on Edge of Night. This way, anyone can find the original post if needed, and we can keep it from mutating and becoming confusing!

Why I started blogging:

I started blogging as the lead up to publishing my fantasy YA book Creeping Shadow later this year. I have discovered blogging to be so much more rewarding (and not to mention addictive) than I had ever expected! It’s been an amazing resource to find like-minded readers and writers that share the same passion as I do for books.

So here’s my two pieces of advice:

  1. For anyone considering blogging I say go for it! It is an amazing way to make connections with people all over the world who share a common interest who you can discuss your passions with!
  2. Write about the things you love. My most popular posts are always the ones that I have enjoyed writing the most. I love rambling on about all the ins and outs of writing and, it turns out, so do a lot of other people! Yay!

Here are my nominations for the Blogger Recognition Award:

  1. Phantomwriter
  2. Koolitzable
  3. Anansi2050
  4. Booksatdawn
  5. Susannevalenti
  6. Damyantiwrites
  7. Chrispavesic
  8. Myredabyss
  9. 1951Club
  10. Helenpollardwrites
  11. Astro7747
  12. SNBradywriter
  13. Analindenblog
  14. KLparry
  15. Icameforthesoup
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Are you a member of the grammar police? (Five examples that will make you mad!)

I think I’m asking for it with this post so hopefully I don’t make any mistakes haha!
But I’m not really talking about accidental mis-spellings (everyone makes mistakes!) but what really grinds my gears is the wrong use of….

There, Their and They’re,  it’s, its, and its’ …and don’t get me started on the wrong use of apostrophes…

So here are my top five examples of bad grammar that will get right under your skin:

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 They got the last one right! *bangs head against wall* They got…the last one…right…
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  If that’s what she finds inspiration in I think we’d better avoid this woman…

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If there’s one certain way to undermine an insult…
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That is literally tattooed on your skin for life.
And for my handpicked number one…it had to be this…

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Correcting bad grammar with bad grammar. Need I say any more?

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If you laugh…you have to subscribe! Mahahaha

Okay so i have very few subscribers and though I deeply love you both (haha) I would like to have a few more!

BUT I’m not asking you to subscribe willy nilly. Why would you? When you could be out subscribing to J.K.Rowling, or Cassandra Clare or George R.R Martin. Why don’t you go subscribe to those people right? Afterall, they’re offering you something already! 

So I present to you a challenge! If you laugh at the following meme you must honour your vow to subscribe but if not I’ll let you go on your way – and I don’t want any pity subscribers either! 

By subscribing to my newsletter you’ll get all the latest updates on my writing before anyone else! But also tips, tricks, and deals! I won’t spam you either, I promise! And, of course, I won’t share your email with anyone else and any time you want to unsubscribe you’re just one click away from doing so!

Here we are then….remember if you laugh you have to subscribe! If you can’t face the pressure then maybe you should turn back before it’s too late!

  
Laugh = Subscribe

No Laugh = May we meet again
You can click up there to subscribe or you can click here to subscribe

Or even ———————–> here
Oh and, just for your information, this one seriously had me laughing 

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Day Two of the Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge!

Hey guys so it’s day two of the challenge and I realised I forgot to tag people in it yesterday to pass it on haha woops! So I’ll tag extra people today (aren’t you lucky! You’re just rubbing your hands together hopin’ I’m gonna nominate you – aww now I feel bad if I don’t…)

Today’s quote is from the late Robin Williams. I love it and think it says it all so I’m shutting up now and giving you the quote!

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And here are my tags:

1) susannevalenti

2) S.W.Lothian

3) Candice

4) Josephine

5) Doug

6) Paperback Discovery

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I’ve been nominated for the 3 days, 3 quotes challenge!

Firstly I want to say a hugggeeeeee thank you to the Fiction Fairy for nominating me. You can check out her blog here ( It’s really worth it!!)

So without further ado I give you my Day One Quote:

I was going to quote Harry Potter but I thought hmmm you all know the best Harry P quotes so instead I chose a quote from Alan Rickman who plays Snape in the films (He is a legend!). And (for those of you who know the books well) this quote is absolute genius…

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300 Followers!! This is SPARTA!

Okay so that was the only 300 reference I could think of haha 🙂

I wanna say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who has followed me and I (of course!) always endeavour to follow back as you lot are such a bunch of interesting people and I’ve met (cyber-met?) so many amazing people that way and found some brilliant blogs!

And in honour of this I’ve created my own award! That’s right! It might not catch on but so what!? It’ll be fun while it lasts haha!

So you might not be suprised to hear what I’ve called this award…..drumroll….

The Sparkling Unicorn Award!

  
This award is designed to celebrate your individuality as a person and fellow blogger. If you think about it a unicorn is just a horse with a horn and YOU are just a person with a blog and yet both equate to something special and unique!

So as part of this award I challenge you to write a four hundred word maximum blurb about your life as if it were a novel on the shelf in a bookstore!

As example… 

Here’s mine:

After a stint at university, aspiring author Caroline Peckham discovers her passion as a writer and longs to fulfill her dreams. But, when summer hits, her fulltime job begins to consume her time and she struggles to juggle her passions with everyday life. And things are about to get a lot more crazy when a trip to the other side of the planet literally turns her world upside down…
And finally! Nominate five bloggers for the award. So to get started here’s mine! Go for it blogging friends! Share this award far and wide!

1) Hope to Read

2) PhantomWriter143

3) The Fiction Fairy

4) Shannon Noel Brady

5) KasimsKorner
I highly recommend you check out these blogs they are fantastico!

Maybe one day farrrrr in the future someone will nominate me for The Sparkling Unicorn Award and I’ll be sitting in my rocking chair puffing on a pipe and I’ll say “Hm! Well, well…how the tables have turned….”(I’ll be super senile by the way but it’ll be totally worth it!)

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Conveying your Characters – Third Person Tips

So you have a fantastic character with all the flaws, traits and layers of an actual human being BUT (particularly when you’re writing third person) how do you get across who they really are?

When I started writing I knew I had a tendancy to write third person but, in comparison to first person, it isn’t so easy to convey their inner emotions and who they are as a person. Some people choose to add the thoughts and feelings of their characters in italics which is one way of approaching this but this isn’t a technique I personally use.

If, like me, you’re a bit of a googler then you may have tried searching this problem to get advice but what you get is a whole long list of ways to develop your character like character profiling etc. but this isn’t what I’m talking about (so if this is your problem – read no more!)

So what did I do? 

I read a whole lot of third person books and noted the techniques they used in terms of sentence structure to convey who the characters are.

And here’s my list for your persual. I hope you find it helpful!

(I use ‘he’ in my examples but this is obviously interchangeable with she/I/they etc. etc. Also all actions, thoughts and feelings distinguished by ‘/’ can be interchanged with whatever takes your fancy!)

  • He usually / His usual / He was used to being…
  • He supposed/wondered…
  • He hadn’t felt/behaved/acted that way for a while…not since (insert past event)
  • He felt embarressed/distressed/upset/hurt but wouldn’t let (so and so) know that
  • He had once been (insert description) but now he was (insert opposing description)
  • It was nice/unusual to meet someone like himself in that (describe how they are similar/disimilar)
  • It wasn’t how he personally would have acted but…
  • He wouldn’t be embarrassed/hurt/goaded so easily not since (insert past event that changed him) 
  • He frowned at himself/ his sister / friend / his clothes (shows how proud he is or isn’t)
  • He ignored the surge of emotions that arose because of…
  • Had he been able to/ willing to/ had the guts to/ bold enough to/ not under the watchful gaze of/ quicker off the mark/ he would have (insert action)
  • He (insert action) for effect
  • He tried to look/ tried not to look…
  • He was always/often/never/occasionally the one to (insert behaviour)
  • He generally avoided (insert situation/behaviour)

You get the idea!

Thanks for reading 🙂