Today, 3rd April 2017, is my chance to welcome you all to the #RRBC book and blog block party!

This month, The Rave Reviews Book Club, or RRBC, has decided to throw a book and block party. I hope that by now you have visited other blogs in the party and some of you may have already won prizes! Anyone is eligible to win a prize. You don’t have to be part of the book club to win. To be in with a chance of winning some great prizes, leave a comment on my blog page today (03/04/2017) and RRBC will select the winners. Winners will be notified on my blog and via email. To see everyones comments today, click on the comment box at the top of this blog page.

My Prizes today: 

1st prize: A £10 Amazon voucher.

A WEEK OF TWEET SUPPORT from my Twitter account @Lizzie_Chantree (40.3K followers) You…

Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, starting Part 3 of the book: Other Beats. As this is a rather long section, I’m breaking it into two posts.

Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

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A good analogy is harder to find than… erm… well, it’s pretty hard. Unless you have these to help:

• She slammed against the chair, her adrenal system upgrading from zoned out to Defcon 1.
• The idea of being that close to her hit him like a shot of tequila in a Red Bull.
• She’s crazier than a sackful of raccoons.
• It was as futile as carrying water with a knife.
• The food was spread out like a Thanksgiving feast.
• Her comfort zone retreated into darkness, waving farewell with…

Payment can be a tough subject for many of us who are freelancers.  Yet, it’s important!  After all, why are we working?  Sure, we truly enjoy our craft, whether it be writing, visual art, graphic design, crafts, or whatever the case may be.  But we don’t do it purely for love.  We do it because we need something to pay the bills and put food on the table.

That’s why today’s post is dedicated to that most uplifting of prose, “pay to the order of.”  We’ll talk about pay, getting paid, and things to do to make sure you get paid!  If anyone has questions, feel free to ask and I’ll probably add it on as another question.

Tips for Freelancers:

Set clear expectations.

Have a place on your website that explains when you expect to be paid, how much, and when.  Then you will have a leg to stand…

Quite simple here, we humans drag our feet throughout this beautiful world, only to never remember why or to take time to acknowledge the beauty in the moments we’re living in.

Be grateful for everything you have because there is much evil throughout this world that you’re not taking part in. Most likely the mind is just over thinking and doesn’t realize what’s actually happening. Try to think about what you’re doing at this moment, instead of other thoughts. Every other thought is just your imagination messing with you. Stop creating these false ideas in your mind, then you shall be set free.

Every gasp of oxygen you take, be grateful for that because maybe one day all the oxygen on the planet will disappear, and you shall never breath again, then you will be grateful for every breath you take. So appreciate this moment instead of later.

When we…

I find one of the most talked about topics in writing is “show don’t tell”. It doesn’t seem to matter how much I try not to I still do, and I also find myself repeating words or not describing actions well.

I stumbled on this list of body language for us to keep near us while writing.

he lowered his head
she hung her head
he ducked
she bowed her head
he covered his eyes with a hand
she pressed her hands to her cheeks

she raised her chin
he lifted his chin

her hands squeezed into fists
his hands tightened into fists
she clenched her fists
she balled her fists
he unclenched his fists
her arms remained at her sides

he shrugged
she gave a half shrug
he lifted his shoulder in a half shrug
she gave a dismissive wave of her hand

she raised a hand in greeting
he…