Dreams as Story Devices by Kay Keppler
Don’t Start Your Story with a Dream! In real life, dreams have their own logic. They jump around, juxtapose images, fade and intensify, ignore transitions.
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How to Create Vivid, Compelling Characters #2: Characterization Techniques in Action: Beth Barany
How to Create Vivid, Compelling Characters: Characterization Techniques in Action: In this video, Beth and Bonnie discusses a passage from Beth’s Henrietta the Dragon Slayer (Book 1) to show how you can reveal character through...
Writing: Choose Your Weapon by Catharine Bramkamp
Poor or careless writing can sink a relationship as quickly as it can promote it. If you fire off a tone-deaf email, you’ll be explaining yourself for days.
How to Create Vivid, Compelling Characters #1: Characterization Techniques in Action: V.E. Schwab
How to Create Vivid, Compelling Characters: In this video, Beth and Bonnie discuss two passages from V.E. Schwab’s A Gathering of Darkness to show how you can reveal character through relationship (and relationship reversal)...
The Secret Gold by Nevada McPherson
The other day I read a sentence that gave me pause. It said: “your deepest secret is your greatest strength.” That got me to thinking…
Scrivener, Why all the Fuss by Vanessa Kier
Scrivener is a popular writing tool that writers either love or hate. Here are three reasons why Scrivener is my must-have writing tool.
How You Can Use SEO To Generate More Traffic To Your Author Site by Victoria Greene
You know your writing is great, and you’ve nailed your social media strategy and referral program. Tick aaaand tick. What about your SEO strategy? Is organic search really relevant to you?
#AMA for aspiring novelists with a writer’s coach, Beth Barany
#AMA for aspiring novelists with a writer’s coach! Post your questions here: https://authorsama.amafeed.com/ama-for-aspiring-novelists-with-a-writers-coach-im-an-award-winning-ya-506959 SCHEDULED to go live on June 11, 2018 9:00 PM EDT | 6:00 PM PDT In a nutshell: I’m an award-winning...
Giving Your Writing A Proper Place in Time and Space by Beth Barany
On Giving Your Writing A Proper Place in Time and Space … Confession: I only work on my own novel about one to three hours a day — the creative parts I mean, whether those...
Revise Your Way to Success by Kay Keppler
You need an editor to make your writing shine, and the first red pen that touches your draft should be your own. Learn how to revise, and especially, learn how to delete. Read Strunk & White’s Elements of Style or some other book that shows you how to strip verbiage, and then apply what you’ve learned to your manuscript.
Blogging on Books on Blogging by Catharine Bramkamp
So, in an unexamined fit of self- improvement, I Googled blogging and yes, found a self-described expert. He offered membership in the master mind program, I could subscribe to his newsletter, I could sign up for a free online class, I could download white papers, I could buy his book.
Does Your Brain Always Storm With Creative Juices? by Carol Malone
Join us today as authorpreneur, ghostwriter, book, and creativity coach in training, Carol Malone, studies out the process for helping to get herself unstuck in her current WIP. She gives some advice on how to “Brainstorm” your novel’s storyline. Enjoy!
Returning to Self by Beth Barany
One of the hardest things for me to know is what I really think and feel. Not because I just don’t know. But because I think and feel so much and I’ve learned much...
Why You Should Know The Grammar Rules… So You Can Break Them Better! by Alicia Rasley
Many writers think of grammar and punctuation rules as restrictions which restrain and constrain their creativity. In fact, grammar and punctuation are just like words and sentences. They are mutually agreed-upon ways for readers...
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