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.
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
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.
5 Things I’ve Learned from Book Signings By Gail Z. Martin
Since signings are public appearances, they’re unpredictable. You never know what’s going to happen.
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.
Writing: Just Don’t Sit There! By Faith Van Horne
According to a slew of recent studies, even if you’re exercising when you’re not sitting, the act of sitting itself is physically damaging.
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...
Why Writers Need to Use Pinterest
Many writers look at me funny when I encourage them to get on Pinterest. They don’t see the connection. They write fiction. How can a picture-oriented site help them grow their audience?
Tying the Muse to the Chair by Laura Bickle
There are a lot of writers who have healthy relationships with their muses. They take their muses out on coffee dates and have long conversations at the beach while holding hands.
Tips for Writing Literotica
This past December, Fifty Shades of Grey was named as England’s Book of the Year. I’ll pause for reaction. Right. A book that while many may have enjoyed, was actually horribly written. The editing was non-existent, the plot and character development was horrendously flawed, and the repetition, my God, was frankly, just too much. But it won anyway and has also been recognized as the UK’s best selling book. They have J.K. Rowling and Charles Dickens, but yet, Fifty Shades of Grey still tops out.
Nobody Cares What Your Book is About: How to Write a Book Trailer Script by Ezra Barany
Welcome back to our weekly posts from bestselling author and book marketing consultant, Ezra Barany. Yes, and he’s my husband. This article on how to draft a book trailer script is also one of...
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