Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. I like this guys spunk and scrappiness. Cool tool, too! A shout out to him: Follow him on twitter: http://twitter.com/travelhead Discover the unique...
This is #1 in a series of articles on Spark Your Creativity Through the Numbers for Writers, a new weekly series designed to inspire you, motivate you and get you writing up a storm!...
I used to be a book reviewer, back in the early days of my writing career. In fact, the second thing I ever got published was a review of Katherine Neville’s The Eight. I...
Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to have fun… Don’t use Twitter if you don’t want to connect with your readers. Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to experiment with writing in 140 characters or less. Less is better.
Welcome to my weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. Yes, these tips and strategies apply to all authors! We want to sell books, right? But we’re anxious about how to actually make that...
Creativity Tools and Tips / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published February 24, 2011 · Last modified February 22, 2011
Welcome to the another article in the Craft series, this one by Bobbye Terry, a frequent guest columnist at the Writer’s Fun Zone. ^*^ Do You Get the Message? Theme is one of the...
Author Career / Fantasy and Paranormal
by Beth Barany · Published February 23, 2011 · Last modified February 22, 2011
Welcome to the Wednesday series on Fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I’ll just come right out and say it! {I’m getting used to saying it!} I’m releasing my YA fantasy on February 28,...
Creativity Tools and Tips / inspiration
by Beth Barany · Published February 20, 2011 · Last modified August 13, 2014
VIDEO: Rod Serling talks about Writing for Television (Part 1) Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. How do you bleed for your writing?
by Beth Barany · Published February 16, 2011 · Last modified February 17, 2011
Welcome to the Wednesday series on Fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I’ll just come right out and say it! {I’m getting used to saying it!} I’m releasing my YA fantasy at the end...
Creativity Tools and Tips / inspiration / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published February 12, 2011 · Last modified February 14, 2011
This is #3 in a series of articles on Creativity and Inspiration for Writers. Tips shared here are inspired by my ebook, Overcome Writer’s Block, and will soon also be part of a course at We Write Books community How can we be a better writers? Or maybe you’d like to get re-inspired in your writing. We can step away from the words and dive into our most primal sense of smell!
Welcome to the another article in the Craft series, this one by Bobbye Terry, a frequent guest columnist at the Writer’s Fun Zone. // “Mixing humor with suspense?” you ask. “Surely you jest.” No, I don’t. For one of the few times in print, I’m completely serious.
I’m inspired by Kristen Lamb to do a Twitter Tuesdays series. Today is #2! I’m inspired by Kristen and her book, We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media… as you may have guessed by reading this blog. 🙂 Today we’ll focus on how to use your Twitter bio to show off your author platform to its best advantage.1111
Future of Publishing / Indie Author Series / publishing
by Beth Barany · Published February 7, 2011 · Last modified February 10, 2011
Welcome to the weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. All resources I use and cull from my life as an Independent Publishing Consultant and Book Coach, published author, and indie author in fiction! Most indie authors will do well to have their books on the Kindle, the Nook, and at Smashwords — which allows readers to download in multiple formats.
As I stated in yesterday’s post, many of us read to escape. As authors it’s our job to provide that escape to our readers. Many authors get caught up in telling the reader about an experience. But actually what creates the experience of escape is allowing us to feel the story.
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