How to Edit Your Novel in 3 Steps
After writing your novel — be it a romance, mystery, thriller, fantasy, horror, or science fiction — and letting it sit — I let my novels sit for 1 year — edit your novel in layers.
After writing your novel — be it a romance, mystery, thriller, fantasy, horror, or science fiction — and letting it sit — I let my novels sit for 1 year — edit your novel in layers.
Healthy Writers Club / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published November 28, 2012 · Last modified November 25, 2012
I always figured that, one day when I grew up, I would be a writer. Trick is, you have to actually write something before that can happen.
When you make your reader question, they begin telling the story within themselves, seeking possibilities, engaging in deep and imaginative play.
Author Interviews / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published November 26, 2012 · Last modified November 29, 2012
This breakthrough book on self-love changes all that by taking you beyond the idea of loving, valuing, and caring for yourself into daring acts that will help you experience it. Christine Arylo provides practical, fun ways to explore and embody the ten branches of self-love every day and in every part of your life.
Writers are students of the world who never stop learning. Sometimes, though, it is easy to become overwhelmed or intimidated in the midst of the creative process. A short (free) online class may provide unexpected inspiration for your next short story or novel.
I had just completed my dissertation and was wondering about what to do next. Then, I watched several specials on the Science and Discovery channels about the multiverse theory and became fascinated with the idea or parallel universes and how we could live different lives in each universe.
Negotiation is a part of life. We haggle at farmers’ markets, we bargain with our significant others, and of course, we make deals in the business world. Knowing the rules of negotiation is helpful in all of these situations, but most of all when making business deals.
In my opinion, there is only one way for you to succeed as an author these days and that is to 1) write the best book you can; and 2) tell your raving fans about it. My coaching helps you with the former. This issue will help you do the latter.
Calling all visionaries, artists, mothers, healers, coaches, writers, speakers, thought leaders! We’d like to take you on a journey. We know you’ll get so much out of this evening purely through osmosis – just by being around these highly acclaimed speakers and teachers.
This has been a mixed week for exercise, what with the cold and wet weather starting. I felt a little off my game, since I started week #2 of my own Couch-to-5K program, inspired by Josh Clark’s article on the site, coolrunning.com.
Even though you send out your promotion pieces one at a time, in various places and contexts, you need a way to pull these visual fragments together into a memorable whole.
When it comes to blogging, I have learned a few things that I wish I’d when I started. If you’re thinking of starting a blog, or want to be more organised in your blogging, you might find these tips helpful. I may be ‘teaching my grandmother to suck eggs’, but here we go…
History is not dull or dry. It is full of all the passion and heroism of the stories we hear on the news every day. Politics were just as vicious back then and love was just as tender.
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / Events
by Beth Barany · Published November 5, 2012 · Last modified November 8, 2012
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