To Blog and Beyond in 2020 by Keri Kruspe
To blog as a novelist: what to blog about and more. The adventures, tips, benefits, and challenges of sci-fi romance author, Keri Kruspe. With lots of resources if you want to start blogging.
To blog as a novelist: what to blog about and more. The adventures, tips, benefits, and challenges of sci-fi romance author, Keri Kruspe. With lots of resources if you want to start blogging.
It’s the end of the summer and the rough draft phase in the development of my novel. It’s also the beginning of rewrites, revisions, and serious editing. And getting a bird’s eye view of the story.
Authors often discuss the Muse. We court her, coax her, ask for her blessing. What we forget to mention is the wild ride. What would you do if you only had the time?
Please welcome Mary Smathers to our Featured Q&A series at Writer’s Fun Zone. Enjoy!
Confused about copyright rules and fair use for Internet content? Then discover some do’s and don’ts by estate and literary lawyer, Kelley Way.
One indie author shares her unrealistic expectations about achieving success, so we can all learn from her mistakes. She also shares an important tip she’s recently learned.
Author and artist Nevada McPherson is facing novel revisions, including what to cut and what to keep and change to make sure the story has plenty of “cakes and pies.” Read on to uncover what she means.
If you want to move forward with your work, but are just swirling around unproductive eddies, try paddling in a different direction. Try a little twisted technology, by writer and story coach, Catharine Bramkamp.
Discover tips to engage with the extroverted, fiery energy of summer that can make it hard to tap into the quiet, productive, depths of our creative energy many writers (and anyone with big plans or projects) needs to get work done — by acupuncturist and energy coach, Marie Boswer.
Literary lawyer Kelley Way details step by step how to put a copyright into your trust.
Tips and advice on how to improve the dialogue and cut exposition in your fiction from prolific writer of science fiction, urban fantasy, and comic books, Chuck Wendig, shared by novelist and editor, Kay Keppler.
Get the inside scoop of an author’s first experience getting a coveted BookBub Featured Deal by science fiction romance author, Keri Kruspe. The reasons, the results, and strategy for success.
Meaningful quotes, inspiration, encouragement and ideas come from the unlikeliest places. Having one in mind can make a difference in our ability to focus, to keep moving forward, and to face obstacles in our writing life and beyond.
Before you can move forward with your writing career, leave behind pernicious myths of writing and publishing, so you can travel forward lighter and faster. Here’s myth buster, author and writing teacher, Catharine Bramkamp, to dispel five more writing myths.
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