Posts Tagged ‘author’
It never ceases to astound and amaze me what I can find the Internet, so I figured I’d share what I picked up along the way:
How to Start Writing When You Don’t Feel Like It- This blogger shares some great tips on writing when you’re not in the mood. The site itself has tons of [...]
I was telling a fellow writer the other day some drama I experienced in my teen years when my family endured a harrowing experience of being stalked. Like some B-movie, the guy would call and threaten to kill us, to blow up our house, or vehicles would be vandalized under the cloak of night. I [...]
You can run then from these handy portable drives, and I found a number of them particularly helpful for the would-be author.
As an organizer to a writer’s group, we have a number of would-be authors share their work for the review of their peers. We’re no expert by any sense of the word, but we all love reading. I compiled a few tips I thought might help writers who want their work critiqued to keep in [...]
A member of my writer’s group brought an interesting topic to the meeting today. It was writing about gender. This included lively discussion on male and female authors as well as the authors writing for male or female audiences.
I was curious to find that in the Science Fiction genre, you’ll find mostly male readers. For [...]
I only recently discovered that making mistakes is not only a part of life, in many aspects, screwing up now and then is essential to our overall development. Not only did this lesson seem like an epiphany for me, its really opened my eyes to other aspects of my life and the fears I previously [...]
Anyone who writes a journal can tell you how cathartic it can be to put one’s thoughts and feelings to paper. At one point in my life, I fell into a deep, dark depression. Page upon page filled with rants, and complaints. I poured out all the anger, frustration, and misery I had. Oddly, at [...]
Any writer will tell you the terrible sense of apprehension you feel when showing a piece of work to someone else. Its a glimpse into the creative soul of a writer, as well as putting one’s skill under the scrutiny of someone else. When feedback is bad, this rips through a writer’s soft underbelly, exposing [...]
Marketing for writers can often prove difficult. There’s nothing really creative about it, nothing fun, and certainly nothing to do with the craft of writing…or does it?
If you do get published by one of the big publishing companies, they do much of the marketing for you. This doesn’t mean you should sit back and wait [...]
















