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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 Joel D. Canfield, @JoelDCanfield To begin, tell me a little bit about yourself. How many of these have you experienced in your writing life during the past two years? I’ll include checkboxes [...]
by Chrys Fey, @ChrysFey Are you on Goodreads? Your answer should be yes. Whether you’re a reader, a writer waiting to published, or an author. Goodreads is an important place to be. As an [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It has taken me a long time to warm up to Goodreads. As a writer, I’m still very wary of some aspects of the environment over there. But [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have a quick, cautionary tale for you today. I released book nine in the Southern Quilting series in late-April. I consider the series to be one that [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Every once in a while, I’ll grind to a halt with my story. I’ll either want to flesh out a subplot or develop the main plot a bit [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have been building my ARC team (Advance Reader/Review Copy team) organically for years. Organically as in…I didn’t do the building myself. If a reader reached out to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the questions I’m most asked when I speak is how I come up with my ideas. This, of course, is probably the number one question that all [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Recently, I was looking over my customer reviews on Goodreads (I know…I rarely read my reviews there, although I always read them on Amazon) and one of them [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I work on story subplots two different ways. Sometimes I write them in as I go, including them in the text. Sometimes I write them out separately on [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A while back (far enough back that I can’t remember the source), I read an article that suggested writers should include their backlist titles in their author newsletter. [...]
by Nicky Blue, @itsnickyblue ‘The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.’ — Sigmund Freud When I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s now time for my regularly scheduled reminder to back up your work. This time I’ll make my post a little different by urging you to back up [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Recently, I went through and updated all of my individual book pages on my website… a very tedious process, but it was a rainy day and a worthwhile [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig (with content from @JaneFriedman) I receive one or two emails a month from new writers asking for information and help in either publishing or promoting their book. It’s [...]
by Dave Chesson, @DaveChesson For every challenge a writer faces, there is a helping hand available in the form of a tool or app. While no tool is a replacement for talent or creativity, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Through the years, I’ve run across a lot of author websites. When I see something really useful, I’ll add it to my own. Here are five things that [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The writing life can be a wonderfully rewarding one. But there can be headaches along the way. Here are five things I’ve learned about being a writer: some [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My first blog post was in August of 2008. Along the way, I’ve tweaked the content and changed from Blogger to WordPress. I’ve also played with the number [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve mentioned before that I always feel a little apologetic when I send a newsletter to readers. I’m so inundated by emails that the idea of wanting more emails [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I used to think that I was a fairly adept multitasker, as long as one of the tasks was something completely mindless (I could stir things in a [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Happy 2018! I’m never much of a fan of resolutions, but I do like making sure at the beginning of each year that I’m organized. With that in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I posted on this last year, but I thought it was worth another mention. If you’re on Twitter, it’s pretty easy to find your best-performing tweets of the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the hardest things about writing is the sitting down and doing it. Usually, once you start, it gets a little easier from there. Building a habit [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have become something of a to-do list aficionado. I’ve been religiously using lists since having children. That’s over 20 years of list making. I’ve changed the way [...]
by Laina Turner, @laina_turner I went to a writers conference years ago, and a panelist was talking about marketing. He said, many great writers never enjoy the chance to earn a living as an [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’d been hearing that author notes could be a nice website ‘extra’ for readers or newsletter subscribers, or serve as promo copy on the product page for Amazon. [...]
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