How to Stop Sabotaging Your Success As a Writer by Vangile Makwakwa
I have this awesome talent to sabotage relationships and great career opportunities just as they turn into success.
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Turn Fan Fiction to Original Fiction by Erin Lale
There are many more things one could write about with respect to Norse mythology and the Norse gods (which is actually a misnomer, since the culture which gave rise to the mythology spanned the whole of northern Europe north of the Roman Empire and predated the development of modern nation-states.
Character Conflict: Characters in Opposition by Kay Keppler
If you write any kind of commercial fiction, conflict is required. Nobody wants to read a story about happy people who have great jobs, raise wonderful children, do meaningful volunteer work, and lose all the weight they gain after the holidays.
Why Having a Future Media Clause is Important by Ace Antonio Hall @AceAntonioHall
Whether you hire an attorney (one who does publishing contracts regularly) or decide you are intelligently qualified to make some appropriate legal amendments, I suggest you BEST BEWARE the clause in your contract about Future Technology.
Falling Short by Faith Van Horne
Goals can be a two-edged sword. Their stated purpose is to motivate and encourage.
Your Happy NaNoWriMo state by Tiffany Turpin Johnson @Fictiffous
Even to the most experienced of writers, pounding out a book in a month can seem crazy, but as many NaNoWriMoers can attest, it’s doable. And therein lies the contradiction of any marathon.
Adventures of an Author: Truths Learned as I Started My Writing Career by Carol Malone
When I placed my feet on the path of writing, I surrounded myself with teachers who were further ahead and could reach behind and pull me along.
Diluting Your Brand: A Discussion by Melinda Pierce
“I think writers need to be careful in regards to diluting their brand. While I believe it is absolutely possible to write in a variety of subgenres under one name, and there are plenty of authors who do so (very successfully too!), it can also work against you.”
Putting the “Self” into Self-Publishing by Annmarie Miles
Publishing was not something I planned on and I certainly didn’t intend to go through the tremendous amount of work that I know authors do, to get their book in front of agents and publishers.
Artist Entrepreneur: V for Variety— The Artist’s Alphabet Guide to Writing About Your Art by Aletta de Wal
Your signature style unites your art as your voice unites your writing.
“Your novel would make a great movie! Why don’t you turn it into a screenplay?” Part 2 by Jackie Blain
You really really want to adapt your novel into a screenplay. It’s visual, it moves, there are great characters, the plot is strong. But you really really don’t have the time it’ll take to learn how to write a different genre.
Fighting Writer Chaos by Linda Bell Brighton
After the first book of Sidonia The Sorceress Series, Wolgast Castle, was complete, I started on the second and came to a screaming halt. Was it Second Book Fears?
An Author’s Comfort Zone by Sharon Ledwith
This post could have also been dubbed ‘Balance 101 for Authors’. About sixteen months ago the first novel in my middle-grade/YA time travel series hit the cyber bookshelves. There was so much to do, and it felt like there wasn’t enough time to do everything.
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