Beginnings, Middles and Ends: The Creative Process #8
Knowing your creative process, and knowing what stage you’re in, helps you be a better artist — by adding more awareness and understanding to your life.
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
Author Entrepreneur Magazine: August 2012 issue is Here!
Author Entrepreneur Magazine, August 2012 is out! This free online magazine is dedicated to helping authors create successful and sustainable careers.
Villains in Literature
We love villains in literature. WE want to spend time with the antagonist. We like the hero to have a good challenge, but it’s more than that. For good to triumph, it has to contrast with something. We can’t know what’s right till we see what’s wrong.
Ban Indie Bookstores Before You Ban Amazon
Has this happened to you? You’re chatting about your book on Amazon and they react to the word “Amazon” as though you mentioned the Devil. They want to ban Amazon. Well I’d rather ban indie bookstores before banning Amazon.
Beth Barany on Social Media Book Marketing Secrets for Shy Writers
Book Sales Coach, Beth Barany works with fiction authors who are challenged by marketing and selling their books. She helps them find their own style of marketing and become successful, bestselling authors.
The Writers Block: Motivation To Write #1
What is this powerful, mysterious force that compels us to start to write, let alone continue day after day? At heart, it is passion. If you don’t know how to get started or are bored with your writing, it may be because you have lost touch with your passion. Identify the fire that electrifies your desire to write. Spark your passion, and quicken it. How? Read on!
Artist Entrepreneur: N for News— The Artist’s Alphabet Guide to Writing About Your Art by Aletta de Wal
Technology has expanded your potential audience to the planet, shrunk the world to the size of your computer screen, and extended your reach to the span of your keyboard. That’s good news because you can reach so many more people without even having to step out of your studio. The downside is that we are all inundated with information everywhere we go.
5 Ways You Can Gain More Opportunities By Just Being You
5 Ways You Can Gain More Opportunities By Just Being You 1. Be willing to share your truth with the world. People crave real stories and things they can relate to. Marina’s post has put people in tears.
What Inspires You? Author Interview with Amy Croall, Author of A Cure For The Condition
“What you have is called PVC.” I looked up at my doctor and swallowed the choking breath of emotion. I had what? What was PVC? Did that mean I had a block of pipe growing inside my chest? Was that the reason my heart had been kicking up a nervous frenzy inside my chest the past three days?
How Book Shepherds Can Help Authors By Scott Lorenz Westwind Communications
I recommend authors look into hiring a book shepherd for a current or upcoming writing and publishing project. A book shepherd is someone whose expertise in books and publishing will help you throughout the entire book process. From cover art, editing, dealing with Amazon to locating a printer, a book shepherd will assist you from start to finish.
Balancing Your Art and Body #6
Is your life balanced, with equal parts movement, play, rest and work? If you’re a modern person, juggling writing, a day job, and a family, the response is probably, “Balance? What are you talking about?” I invite you to look at this mix in your life. Most likely, we need to move more, play more and rest more. This article will address the moving part.
Book Marketing and Book Promotion for Shy Novelists
I’m reading SELL YOUR BOOK LIKE WILDFIRE by Rob Eagan and it’s decent. It’s more useful for nonfiction authors than fiction authors, IMHO. That disappoints me. I think fiction authors need more tailored support. (Yes, I’m working on it! My Twitter for Authors book is editorial as we speak. Can’t you see me working on it!)
How To Write the Setting of a Story: Finding the Right Place
Your characters do not act in a vacuum. They live somewhere—in a house, an ocean, a country, planet, period, zeitgeist, vacuum. Often they travel to somewhere else, or aspire to. They carry baggage—metaphorical as well as literal. They have history and a future, cultural attitudes and speech patterns.
Writing a Story: Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas? (Free Kindle Book)
As a writer, the question I am most often asked is, ‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ It’s an interesting question, and maybe not an easy one for authors to answer. Just how do books start? For me they nearly always start with something visual, and that was the case with a book I set in Italy: VILLA DANTE.
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