Welcome to our weekly installment on how to create your indie author success! This week I have a guest post from an award-winning author, Suzanne Tyrpak. Her latest book, Vestal Virgin, a historical thriller...
Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. Which tip do you like the most? I like, nay LOVE, timed writing! And yes, this is me with shorter hair and more makeup! I talk kinda fast, don’t I?!
The number three is a wonderful number, and complicates things in a fun and creative way, depending on your perspective! We went from singular — 1 — to dual — 2 — to triangular, which adds a whole new layer, don’t you think?
Guest Columnists / Writing Craft / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published March 17, 2011 · Last modified March 16, 2011
Authors have a job to do and they have to fool readers in order to do it. In good writing, the author seems to disappear and the reader gets lost in the story. It’s as if the story is telling itself. Yet author convenience, or author intrusion, breaks through the story veil and doesn’t let the reader get caught up in the story.
Author Career / book marketing / Book Promotion / Indie Author Series
by Beth Barany · Published March 14, 2011
Hot off the presses! I recently asked my friends at the Indie Authors Unite on Facebook (and their site) what their #1 marketing tip was. Here’s what they had to say!
“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.”
Have you lost your way with your writing and don’t know how to forge ahead? If so, this is a good time to step back, hold on to your courage and re-imagine your current...
Writing Tips: Choice Begins with You To write or not to write, that is the question. Here, the pen is mightier than the sword. I went to sleep last night thinking about choice, and...
“Passion is the foundation of life.” — Unknown Tell me, what’s your passion? As a writer – you are ALL writers in my book –, I ask you to delve deep down and answer...
What gets you up in the morning? What keeps you going during the day? List everything including writing. Finish these phrases: “I love …” or “I can’t absolutely live without…” or “What excites me...
Notice I only said “passion” singular, not plural. Narrow your choices down to one. (I know that’s hard, but you can do it!) How do you spark your passion? Well, by writing, I imagine....
Writing blocks, these monsters–these hydra that attack from behind–how do we deal with them?! Turn and face yours. And know that you are not alone. Every writer on the planet has probably experienced moments...
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