Blogging Tip: Learning From Others [guest post] by Annmarie Miles
One of the things I love about the writing journey that I’m on is that there are so many others on it too, all at different ages and stages.
Category: Writing Tips
Authors, Get on BlogTalk Radio
A few weeks ago I was on Authors Corner with Elaine Raco Chase at http://tobtr.com/s/4297061 on BlogTalk Radio. She was featuring YA Fantasy authors. We’re a diverse bunch! Michael DiCerto Wendy Grischow Michel Prince Paul Swearingen Alison...
Are Book Contests Worth The Money? By Sue Collier
Another of my associates won the Ben Franklin award for her marketing book, and soon people started calling her to see if they could hire her. As a result, she started a successful consulting business.
So What’s Up With Authorgraph, Anyway? by Matt Posner
When you request an authorgraph, you get a screen in which you can type a personal message to the author.
What I Learned During the Jan. 2013 Ultimate Blog Challenge
Oh yes! What I Learned During the Jan. 2013 Ultimate Blog Challenge — check it out! #1: It’s fun when we do it together! Michelle Schaeffer set up a Facebook where we could share...
Healthy Writers Club: Just Go Fo It!
About weekly I share my Exercise Log to stay accountable to my commitment to my health and to the Healthy Writers Club, a collection of writers dedicated to health and movement started by author Shallee McArthur. In this log, I also reflect on my writing, creativity, and a creative life.
How to Use Facts and Scientific Studies for Writing Online by Beth Barany
You know how to help your clients, and now you want to reach more potential clients through your writing online.
Writing Exercise: Engineering Your Character by Khanh Ho
Who hasn’t had a delicate question that burned to be asked? Who hasn’t been ashamed to do so? For many years, Dear Abby was at the center of American consciousness and she fielded all sorts of questions—from etiquette to morality to good taste—that baffled us in this modern American world that was constantly changing, morphing, evolving.
Trippy Trips: A Game of Keeping Your Readers Fed by Wyatt Bessing
How often have you journeyed off to some exotic destination and brought along your notebook, expecting to record your observations in prose so eloquent and poetic that it would forever change the perceptions and very lives of your readers? Or you at least assumed that the wonder you felt would marginally translate itself to the page, all that majesty entering your words through osmosis?
Writers, Track Your Sales
Would you like to have your sales numbers compiled for you, instead of checking Amazon, B&N, iBooks, etc. every day? Would you like your ratings, rankings, and reviews collected and saved for you, too? Would you like an email every morning with the highlights of your books’ previous day activities?
Artist Entrepreneur: R for Résumé— The Artist’s Alphabet Guide to Writing About Your Art by Aletta de Wal
Each time you apply for admission to a competition or pitch an exhibition, you are effectively applying a “job.” Your résumé is a list of vital information about your art career designed to support your qualifications for a variety of purposes.
Character Development, Conflict, and Your Novel’s Sagging Middle by Beth Barany
When authors work with me, some of their challenges surround how to help the sagging middle of their novel. That sagging middle is often due to not knowing their characters well enough. All good...
Deep POV: Plunging off the Cliff by Kay Keppler
This simple example is just to demonstrate how deep POV works. Of course, nothing is ever absolute, and deep POV can get much deeper than this when you’re working in your own scenes.
Healthy Writers Club: When Life Gets Busy, The Busy Get Walking, I Wish
Inspired by Josh Clark’s article on the site, coolrunning.com, I’ve been doing a Couch-to-5K training since Oct 2012. About weekly I share my Exercise Log to stay accountable to my commitment to my health and...
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