VIDEO: Overcome Writer’s Block
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?!
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Spark Your Creativity Through the Numbers for Writers: #3
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?
Author Entrepreneur: Do You Make The Time to Succeed?
Many authors think that the writing and publishing is the hard part. But actually your work is just getting started. Are you making time to market, connect with your readers, or even communicate to your readers and tell the world that your cool book is available or soon will be?! If you just take a few steps regularly — 15 to 30 minutes a day — you’ll find more readers, create more opportunities for people to tell their friends about you and ultimately sell more books!
CRAFT: What does Author Convenience and Aristotle have to do with each other?
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.
Social Media Tip for Authors #7: Listen
Sometimes we just need to shut up and listen to our fellow authors and most importantly listen to our readers.
INDIE AUTHORS: What is Your #1 Tip for Marketing?
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!
VIDEO: Jack Kerouac: Writing Lesson
Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. This week’s video is a gem, in my opinion, a collection of quotes from the crazily and inspirational Jack Kerouac. Some of my...
Thank God for Book Reviewers!
I used to be a book reviewer, back in the early days of my writing career. In fact, the second thing I ever got published was a review of Katherine Neville’s The Eight. I...
VIDEO: Rod Serling talks about Writing for Television (Part 1)
VIDEO: Rod Serling talks about Writing for Television (Part 1) Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. How do you bleed for your writing?
Failing at Life? Become a Writer (Tips from YouTube)
Welcome back to the Sunday Video Series on Writing, where I steal gems from YouTube that I think are funny, insightful and useful… Actually, I don’t agree with Clutchology’s premise that one turns to...
Real Writers Giving Real Advice via Video by Beth Barany
Here’s some advice for you! In less than 3 minutes learn all you need to know to be a successful writer… (Okay, I’m kidding a little, but not much…) Question for my fine Writer’s...
The Inner Critic
In which I reveal my inner dialogue between my Inner Critic and me, the part of me that would like the Inner Critic to STOP yelling. Thank you. My inner critic is SO strong…...
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.
Don’t get an MFA
Don’t get an MFA. Just write. All an MFA does is prove to yourself that you are committed to your writing. That’s the ultimate experience you want, right? You don’t need an MFA, all those expenses for that. Just write.
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