How to Spot a Professional For Authors: New Series
Welcome to a new series on how to work with a professional editor. If you’re considering creating your own self-publishing team, stay tuned to our new series.
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
How to Choose the Best Platform for Your Author Website by Rachel McCollin
If you don’t have an author website because you’re happy using social media or your newsletter instead, I would urge you to consider adding an author website to your arsenal of book marketing tools.
World Building in Fantasy, Interview with Beth Barany (Podcast)
From the archives: In August 2014, I was interviewed by Michelle Murrain on my views on world building in fantasy for the monthly Broad Universe podcasts. We discussed the philosophy of world building for fantasy,...
Love and War in a Restaurant: Setting Stories in the Culinary World by MJ Post
This one is about restaurants as the settings for stories. A restaurant can be the location for all sorts of fascinating conflict. I’ll explain.
The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri (Book review)
The experience of reading of The Art of Dramatic Writing helped me to understand what enables plays, books, movies, and teaching to be great and what skills I needed to develop in order to write great stories.
Writing as a Vocation? by Beth Barany
I want to talk about vocation or avocation. In a previous blog post here https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2019/05/02/write-to-market-by-beth-barany/, I shared about my rumination on writing to market or not. I don’t think it’s wrong or bad to...
GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict — The ABCs of Writing by Tinthia Clemant
Goals versus Desires – Wanting something is a desire; working to obtain that something is the goal.
A Counterintuitive Step for Finishing Your Story by Veronika Magali-Marosy
What do you do, when the pieces of your story are there, but they just won’t fall into place ? The good news is, you’re probably closer to finishing your story than you think.
Writer Imperfect Show: Chat about books, publishing, and writing
I was part of the Writer Imperfect Show recently and chatted with the host and two other writers about writing novels and the writing process. A good time was had by all. We talked...
Write with Page Turning Tension by Jordan Rosenfeld
My sixth writing guide, How to Write a Page Turner: How to Craft a Story Your Readers Can’t Put Down contains tips to infuse page-turning tension into every aspect of your story or novel and even memoir.
How to Play the (M)ad Game: Amazon Ads by Keri Kruspe
As I stated in my previous article, I promised to instruct you how to put an Amazon Ad in place. Before I do, here are links I can recommend that can give you more in-depth instructions:
Market Your Novel From Your Core Values by Beth Barany
You can market your novel from your Core Values. Read on for some ideas on how. *** To effectively market your novels, it’s important to know what kind of books you write and what...
What Matters to Readers by Kay Keppler
Writers get a lot of advice. They’re told to write what they know or explore new worlds. To grab readers in the first paragraph or do a slow build.
How to Build an Epic Rivalry Between Your Hero and Your Villain by Bonnie Johnston
Epic rivalries make for memorable stories — the kinds of stories that are worth re-reading so we can immerse ourselves in the emotional intensity of the hero’s multi-layered relationship with the villain.
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