Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / video
by Beth Barany · Published August 8, 2014 · Last modified September 5, 2014
New series! I am committing to sharing a weekly video for the next while, at least for the month of August, where I practice in the real world, sharing with you my journey as...
Story is king and trust the process, says Pixar, the animation giant. Today I listened to an interview with the author of Creativity, Inc, Ed Catmull, on KQED. It’s heartening to here about how...
I am a novelist, creative writer, blogger, nonfiction writer, teacher, and book and learning nerd. I fight my own perfectionism all the time. Mostly unconsciously. But I’ve found some ways to handle it consciously...
Hello Readers of Writer’s Fun Zone! I am conducting a reader survey and would love to know what kind of topics you’d like to see here at Writer’s Fun Zone. Please fill out the...
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur
by Beth Barany · Published August 5, 2014 · Last modified August 13, 2014
So you want to be a self-published author! Great! As an indie author or independent author, you have now entered the realm of great power and great responsibility. Experienced indie authors may just want...
We Traveled! Why writing conferences are fun and awesome! Ezra and I attended the RWA National conference — the annual conference for the Romance Writer’s of America members — in San Antonio, Texas. (I...
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur
by Beth Barany · Published July 29, 2014 · Last modified July 27, 2014
Your plan should have all the tools you need to accomplish what you want. It’s YOUR writing business, and YOU decide how and where to go!
Taking the research deeper may reveal things, but this initial sweep should weed out any of the obvious bad choices.
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur
by Beth Barany · Published July 25, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2025
Enjoy my interview with George Meszaros, of Success Harbor, about how to help authors, specifically novelists, think like an entrepreneur. We are actually entrepreneurs, whether or not you’re independently published. Whether or not you’re...
We aren’t going to be able to do all our novel research on the internet. We have to get off our butts, climb out of our office chairs, pack a backpack, and leave the safety of our homes in order to get up-close-and-personal research for the sake of enriching our stories.
book marketing / Book Promotion / Giveaways
by Beth Barany · Published July 22, 2014 · Last modified July 29, 2014
That’s me excited about the giveaways I’m running right now! More about giveaways and how they can help you market and sell your books below. Here at Writer’s Fun Zone and the accompanying newsletter,...
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / Giveaways
by Beth Barany · Published July 22, 2014 · Last modified July 21, 2014
In the spirit of writing conferences — I’ll be in San Antonio near the RWA conference from July 23 to July 26 — and the Christmas in July giveaway I’m doing on my author...
Novelists tend to fall into one of two camps: either they start their books knowing only one character, or a character’s name, and discover the plot and other characters as they write, or they do a 90-page outline with all the turning points and climaxes in place.
Actions often speak louder than words, especially when we are teaching about certain behaviors.
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