Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write
Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write – How To Write the Future, podcast episode 51 “Write with all your senses and let your mind wander far and deep and into the past. Or far...
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Social Media Tools for the Busy Writer by Vanessa Kier
Building and maintaining a strong social media presence can help you as an author to establish a strong brand and to engage with readers.
Time for Time Out by Nevada McPherson
Time Out – That the holidays can be a busy and hectic time goes without saying. There are gatherings to plan, gifts to buy and cookies to bake.
7 Tips for Paragraph Revision: Getting the Details Right by Kay Keppler
Let’s say that you’ve written the first draft of your novel, and maybe you’ve even checked to see that all your turning points, your scenes and sequels, are where they’re supposed to be.
Enhance Your Voice, Sharpen Your Word Choice by Alicia Rasley
I’m just going to give a few quick tips on enhancing your voice by sharpening your word choice.
10 Writing Tips from the 2016 U. S. Presidential Race by Nevada McPherson
I’ve been watching lots of news lately (probably way too much) and now that the election is over I’m still watching news but am also enjoying getting back into my favorite scripted T.V. shows, looking at non-news print media, and catching up on some reading in other subjects.
Anthologies by Catharine Bramkamp
Anthologies are often the first place a brand newbie writer can get published. Which is why many colleges and writing clubs collect and print anthologies. Inclusion in an anthology increases the value of group membership and lifts all boats – or in this case, author’s street cred.
New Year Survival Tips for Writers by Jami Gray
You survived November’s month of word carnage (aka NANO), you’re sliding across a sheet of ice straight for the Christmas Tree, and when you get up to dust off the pine needles, the New Year will meet you with a hard glare for your foolishness and demand a plan for the upcoming months. Welcome to the holiday season for writers.
Hook Readers with Specific Characterizations by Kay Keppler
According to story consultant Michael Hauge, your job as a storyteller is to create images. Your readers, viewers, or listeners want to picture who is doing what. To succeed at that, all the elements of your story need to be clear and vivid. However, some writers have trouble developing unique characters that jump off the page.
Tips for authors Q & A with Author Catharine Bramkamp “Future Girls”
The future is so, well, depressing in Future Girls, what inspired you to create such a repressed future?
Constructive Criticism by Raina Schell
When you’re a fledging writer you will probably receive two kinds of input. The first is constructive criticism and the second is unconstructive criticism or as I like to call it = Bull$h!t
Q&A With Fantasy Author, Sandra Schepis
What inspired me to write the Isles of Olympus series? Originally I thought I would only create one book out of this tale, but it grew to be so much more, and so a trilogy was made. I had toiled with this story idea for about three years before actually sitting down and committing myself to writing it, I wanted something that my children would read, and something that I would enjoy as well as I was finding it hard to find books to capture my interests.
What Is Info Dumping… And How Do You Deal with It? By Tom Turner
I was recently asked by an aspiring fantasy writer how I deal with “info dumping”. Now, I’ve been at this writing thing for some time and yet was unfamiliar with this term.
Interior Monologue by Carol Malone
This material first appeared as a course within the Group Coaching Program for Novelists where Carol is an assistant mentor. Click here http://coaching.bethbarany.com/ for more information about the program where we help novelists write, edit, publish, and market their books with joy, love, enthusiasm, and smarts.
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