Learning How to Edit Your Novel by Beth Barany
As an author, you’ve undoubtedly realized how important editing is during the course of your writing process. After completing your first draft you may feel a sense of relief as a result of being...
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The Value of a Writing Coach by Melinda Pierce
Today we welcome Melinda Pierce back and thank her for another great article. In this article, she discusses the value of a writing coach. Enjoy! *** There are tons upwards to a gazillion (yes,...
Revealing the Inner You in Writing Memoirs by Denis Ledoux
In order for your memoir to be successful, for your readers as well as yourself, it needs to be as honest and open as possible.
Which Came First – The Fiction or the Blog? by Annmarie Miles
Blogging and writing fiction can occur simultaneously to produce fantastic pieces of literature.
The Objects of Desire: A Character Game by Wyatt Bessing
Imagine the power of objects: we covet them, store them, save them from generation to generation, and allow them to fill our living spaces with emotion and memory.
Don’t Go Overboard: Managing Proportion for Novel Writing by Kay Keppler
Problems like these are problems of proportion. You want to give readers enough detail and discussion to hold their interest, but you don’t want to give more detail than the scene requires.
Tips on Writing Dialogue by Ken Myers
When it comes to writing dialogue I have noticed that many new writers especially get hung up. Their dialogue tends to sound stilted and dry and totally unrealistic.
Ten Simple Tricks to Perk Up Your Writing by Steve Alcorn
The ultimate measure of you as an author is the competence with which you write. There are a few simple things you can do to perk up your writing.
Blogging Tip: Learning From Others [guest post] by Annmarie Miles
One of the things I love about the writing journey that I’m on is that there are so many others on it too, all at different ages and stages.
Trippy Trips: A Game of Keeping Your Readers Fed by Wyatt Bessing
How often have you journeyed off to some exotic destination and brought along your notebook, expecting to record your observations in prose so eloquent and poetic that it would forever change the perceptions and very lives of your readers? Or you at least assumed that the wonder you felt would marginally translate itself to the page, all that majesty entering your words through osmosis?
The Devil’s in the Details by Kay Keppler
You want to strike a balance between being so generic that no one will read past page one, and giving readers an unsubstantiated infodump.
How to Edit Your Novel in 3 Steps
After writing your novel — be it a romance, mystery, thriller, fantasy, horror, or science fiction — and letting it sit — I let my novels sit for 1 year — edit your novel in layers.
NaNoWriMo is Starting! How to prepare for NaNoWriMo by Ezra Barany
What’s the single most important thing you can do before you write a single word of your novel for NaNoWriMo? Ask the right questions about the experience you want your readers to have.
The Economics of Creativity: What is The Cost of Inaction? #3
How much does it cost you to do nothing? Put another way: how much do your excuses cost? Cost. Money. Economy… Not words most artists even want to think about much less read. Nevertheless, ignoring the economics of creativity — of life — would be a real shame, since all we ever do is spend and receive energy
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