Spark Your Creativity with the 5 Senses: Go All Visual
Many authors turn to words for sustenance, and to feed their imaginative self. But they sometimes neglect to feed the part of themselves that nurtures their image making ability: visual art.
Tagged: fiction
The Care and Feeding of Characters: How to get them to speak in their natural and distinct voices
Welcome to this week’s guest post from author, Bobbye Terry, wherein she shares about character voice, and makes fun of me… *^* Stop talking to me! You have to quit! Be quiet for now,...
Resources for Indie Novelists: The Future is in The News
As an indie novelists, and book coach and editor, I’m always trawling the ‘net for news on anything that affects authors and anything that can hint at which way the wind is blowing. The...
Structure and Creativity: Timed Writing
As a writer, I’ve often shunned creativity prompts. Why do I need them? I am so creative; I can sit down and just write. Ah! But it wasn’t always this way.
Fairytales Inspire Me: The Fairy Realm
Welcome to a new Wednesday series about fairy tales, fantasy and other topics that inspire me as a fiction author. To relax and get inspired, I like to read fairy tales. Modern, old, new,...
Writing Snappy Dialogue by Janice Seagraves
The best snappy dialogue that comes to my mind is from the movies of the 30’s and 40’s, think Kathryn Hepburn, and Cary Grant. These are the two actors who I think of as the King and Queen of snappy dialogue.
10 Resources for Indie Novelists
In no particular order, here are some resources I’ve come across recently that have helped inform my life as in indie novelist and my life as coach and consultant to authors. Educate yourself. Get...
Out of the Office: Writer At Work
Written and posted for Day 25 the day after, I’m blatantly cheating on my 31 Day Blog Challenge. I’m a writer. My passion is fiction. This post is real, though fiction is that I...
What is the Writer’s Fun Zone?
What is the Writer’s Fun Zone? A place to play with writing… my writing. Your writing. A place to explore what book writing, book marketing and book selling are all about. A place where mistakes and failures are welcome words, where you can ask for and receive support — it’s a place of your making.
Market then Write Your Novel, Right? or Wrong
It you’re a published novelists, I’d like to get your input for an article I’m writing for The National Networker and other venues. We all read in our genre, pay attention to what has recently sold via PublishersWeekly.com. What other strategies do you use to determine what will sell? Do tell! Email me directly by Sunday 11/8 and I will send you my questionnaire.Thanks! http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/
Once Upon A Time… Bring Magic Into Your Fiction class
Once Upon A Time… Bring Magic Into Your Fiction class Welcome Writers! Today is the last day to get Early Bird Pricing at $55 off! The code is: fairytale10 Be sure to hit recalculate....
Character Names: Where Do They Come From?
From the stork? No silly! From resources, both internal and external, online and offline. From personal experience, I’d say character names come from our imagination and our life experience.
Inspire Your Novel Writing: 3 Questions to Ponder
Writers, what are you reading that inspires you? What are you reading that inspires your writing? I’m still reading The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass. And today is Excerpt Thursday, so here goes.
The Fire in Fiction: Harness Your Passion
“I believe that passion is available to every author, every time she sits down to write. Every novel can be inspired. Every scene can have a white-hot center. It is not a matter of conjuring demons, being obsessed, or just plain luck. The passion that inspires great fiction can be a writing technique as handy and easy to use as those with which all fiction writers are familiar.”
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