Social Media Tip for Authors #4: What Are Your Big Picture Goals?
Welcome to my Social Media for Author Tip Series, where I offer you tips to put into practice so that you can: Connect with your readers and get to know them Let them get...
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Indie Author Feature: Creating Characters That Come Alive
We writers know our story circles around three things: plot, setting, and character. I’d like to talk about character. I know you have heard a dozen different ways to create characters, but how about one more time, only with a different take on them.
VIDEO: Al Pacino’s Inspirational Speech from Any Given Sunday
Enjoy this inspirational speech from the film, Any Given Sunday, delivered by the excellent Al Pacino. Enjoy also Jamie Fix, Dennis Quaid, and LL Cool J.
Spark Your Creativity Through the Numbers for Writers: #4
Apply the number 4 to your story. Which of your characters has these traits? What aspect of your story structure could be enhanced by using elements of the number 4? What part of your writing life could you a dose of the number 4?
Social Media Tip for Authors #5: The 5-5-5 Rule
Today’s Tip #5: The 5-5-5 Rule Often my workshop attendees, clients and students ask me, “How much time should I spend on social networking?” “How’s five minutes a day?” I ask. “That’s all?”
Wild Woman Archetype: Who is Baba Yaga?
Turns out Baba Yaga is more popular in the arts than I realized! She’s an old witch in Slavic and Russian folk tales. I associate here with these motifs: * Fire * A house that runs on chicken legs * She eats maidens…
Social Media for Fiction Authors: We Can Do It Together
I’m finally ready to share with you my new course, We’re All In This Together: Social Media for Fiction Authors. This 7-week online/teleseminar course starts soon! April 11th. Yes, we can do it together!...
Indie Authors: We Are Stronger Together
Just a quick shout out to all the cool online communities I’m part of that support my life as an indie author: Shewrites.com: If you do join — yes, it’s free — connect with...
Is Book Marketing Creative?
Um, yes. Book marketing is creative, imho (in my humble opinion). I’m preempting my semi-regular Saturday series on Spark Your Creativity Through Numbers to chat about creativity and marketing and then get to it!...
Author-Entrepreneur: Focus on What Matters
I don’t know about you guys, but I have been so distracted by all the conversations I’ve been having: on Facebook, on Twitter, on my online community for writers, We Write Books, through email,...
Indie Author Giveway and Intro: Ezra Barany’s The Torah Codes
Welcome to my series of Interviews with Indie Authors. Today I feature — quite proudly — the release of my husband’s suspense novel, The Torah Codes. In celebration of the day, we’re doing a...
How Do Dreams Help You Defeat the Creative Block Monster?
Welcome to our Saturday post on Creativity. This week I feature a post on creativity and dreaming by guest columnist, Paula Chaffee Scardamalia, Story Muse and Dream Coach. How do you use dreams to...
Artist Entrepreneur: When Do You Ask For Help?
When do you ask for help? And I mean all kinds of help: financial, emotional, psychological, spiritual, etc. One of the traits often associated with artist and entrepreneurs is independence. Speaking just about myself, I am that gal who said from a very young age, “I can do it myself.”
Social Media Tip for Authors #6: Share
Welcome to my Social Media for Author Tip Series, where I offer you tips to put into practice the your social media tips so that you can: * Connect with your readers and get to know them * Let them get to know you * Build your network * Create your author platform — Today’s Tip #6: Share — Share what? Share yourself, your humanity, your vulnerability, a slice of your daily life? Why? Because we all want to connect with each other, feel each other’s humanity, belong and be loved.
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