Develop a Thick Skin: Advice for Newbie Authors by Tinthia Clemant
What advice would I give budding writers? My answer? Develop a thick skin.
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
Hook Your Readers With Great Beginnings and Endings by Kay Keppler
Hook your readers with great beginnings and endings. If readers don’t like your opening scene, they won’t read the rest of the book. But if your last scene doesn’t provide a pay-off, you’ve failed them—and they won’t read your next book.
Editing Your Novel: What Kind of Feedback Would You Like? by Willow Woodford
You want to be a better novelist but it can be hard to answer the question: what kind of feedback would you like? Discover the types of editing you can expect as you work to improve your drafts from novelist Willow Woodford.
What Should I Do About My Estate Plan During the Shelter in Place Order and Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis? by Kelley Way
Estate planning and literary lawyer Kelley Way answers the question: what should I do about my estate plan during the shelter in place order and coronavirus (covid-19) crisis?
How to Nail Your Keywords, Categories and Metadata So Your Audience Finds Your Book, Interview with Beth Barany by Karen Ferreira
Learn how to nail your keywords, categories and metadata so your audience finds your book, in this interview I did with Karen Ferreira at her annual conference, Children’s Book Mastery.
PR for Authors: How a PR Experiment Made Me a Better (Sales)Person by Keri Kruspe
What is PR for authors? Explore this with scifi romance novelist Keri Kruspe as she shares how a PR experiment made her a better salesperson and netted her some interesting results.
Brave New World / Brave New Writing by Nevada McPherson
Safety is a huge consideration right now in everyone’s daily lives. As storytellers, however, there is one place where we should never do the safest thing, and that’s in our writing.
Talk to Your Book, An Intuitive Approach
Recently, I attended an online talk about intuitive editing by Mark David Gerson, another writing coach, teacher, and author. I’d just come back from Saudi Arabia where I taught three workshops in three days...
Breaking the Rules by Catharine Bramkamp
In these rule breaking times, we need a different approach to how we drag our books across the finish line. As artists, writers can approach our books with the same spirit as artists who create public art. Because a book IS public art.
Favorite Resource of the Week: Letters from a Screenplay Youtube channel
I am so loving “Letters from a Screenplay” channel on Youtube. I especially loved the episode on creating the ultimate antagonist in Michael’s analysis of the Dark Knight. Description: “Heath Ledger’s performance as The...
Humans are infinitely resourceful by Beth Barany
I see people around me feeling hampered, feeling stuck, feeling like they’re in a prison. And now with lots of shelter in place orders, including where I live in the San Francisco Bay area,...
Q&A with Novelist, Amy Lane
Please welcome Novelist, Amy Lane to our Featured Q&A series at Writer’s Fun Zone. Enjoy!
How to Greatly Improve Your Manuscript with Revision and Feedback, Interview with Bonnie Johnston by Karen Ferreira
Discover how to greatly improve your manuscript with revision and feedback with these step-by-step tips in this interview with writing teacher Bonnie Johnston by Karen Ferreira.
Reading “Bad” Books by Kay Keppler
You don’t learn how to write only by reading books you enjoy. You also learn how to write by reading books you dislike. So why should you read (even if you don’t finish) books you don’t like?
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