by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Heather Wright, @hwrightwriter Ever since I got a pink diary with a lock and key for Christmas when I was eleven, I have tried to keep a daily journal—I really have. But, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Kristina Adams, @KristinaAuthor The voice and tone of your novel will affect who connects with your characters and what genre it fits into. It can even be the difference between someone finishing [...]
By Dan Brotzel, @brotzel_fiction I met my two collaborators, Martin and Alex, at my local writing group. By coincidence, it turned out that we all lived in the same road. As we got [...]
by Hank Quense, @hanque99 What can be more satisfying for an author than showing kids how to create a short story? That’s what I’ve been doing for the last several years in schools and [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m a fan of a series that Lifehacker is running: “How I Work.” In it, various people in different industries describe how they got where they are, what [...]
by Colleen M. Story, @colleen_m_story When your readers come to your website, how long does it take them to figure out what kind of writing you do? If it takes more than a few [...]
by David Wogahn, @Wogahn It is simple to figure out eBook royalties because there are no “manufacturing” costs. But the formula for calculating your royalty for a paperback book printed by Amazon KDP [...]
by John Kerr, @themaltesetiger Can we talk about F. Scott Fitzgerald? Author of The Great Gatsby, that American classic we all read in high school. Without a doubt, one of the most acclaimed American [...]
Hi, everyone! Today I’m guest-blogging over at Laura Smith’s blog with a post for self-publishing beginners. I’m offering 5 self-publishing basics. Hope you’ll hop over. :) Photo credit: Stuck in Customs on Visualhunt [...]
by Laura Smith, @lsmith335 Editing Is Crucial Let’s face it, even a good first draft can look like a hot mess when it’s first read. Every decent English teacher I’ve ever had has [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have a lot of sympathy for writers who get great ideas for other projects (known as SNI…Shiny New Ideas) while working on a book. When you’re [...]
by Jenny Bravo, @JennyBravoBooks We are in the age of the author. With the rise of self-publishing and hybrid publishing, authors are pumping out books more than ever. We live in a content-based world [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One cool thing about blogging for over ten years is that a lot of the posts form a sort of unexpected diary. I was glancing over some older [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re writing a cozy mystery, there are little things that come up sometimes. Writing is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure process. You have so many different choices that can take [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Happy New Year! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. One thing I like to do at the beginning of the year is planning. To me, setting up my year on [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s kind of interesting when you’ve been blogging as long as I have. Recently, I looked back over some of the posts from 2009 and 2010. My writing [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I usually just jump right into new projects without thinking a lot about it. I follow my outlines and I write what I’ve told myself to write each [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve written before about being intentional about free time. By doing a little planning ahead, I feel a lot more relaxed and recharged. Instead of looking for something [...]
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, @kaath09 Hello, my name is Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, and I’m a recovering research-aholic. I know that research addiction is common among writers of speculative fiction (genres that begin with ”what [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve touched on this topic before, although before I was sort of working it through in my mind. What I’m calling ‘series tropes,’ which is what writer Camille [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin All fiction requires the reader to suspend belief in order to follow the story. You have to pretend that you are in a different location with people that you don’t [...]
By Jeffrey Eaton, author of the “Murder Becomes” series, @murderbecomes Each year, more than one million books get released by publishing houses and self-published authors. You read that right – more than one million [...]
By Steven W. Giovinco, @recovreputation 8 Online Reputation Management Tips for Authors, Books, Novels, Fine Art Photography Publications, With Sample Task List Authors–not just plumbers on Yelp or lawyers on Avvo.com–need a positive [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Always leery of more work, I’d put off moving my print books from CreateSpace to KDP Print. With about 20 titles to transfer (the rest were trad-pubbed), I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When the ProWritingAid team recently got in touch with me and offered me the chance to check out their editing tool, I was happy to take them up [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I wanted to pass along a helpful goal-setting and tracking tool for writers. I’ve gotten very into tracking lately. I especially like it when it’s easy to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 45,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Emmanuel Nataf, @EmmanuelNataf 81% of Americans want to write a book in their lifetimes. However, a much smaller percentage actually goes on to publish a book. So what’s stopping them? You’ll hear that [...]
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