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The Only Way To Write A Novel
by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author What is the right way to tell a story? If you put ten writing experts in a room and ask them that question, you’ll get thirteen different answers. Writing, and by extension storytelling, is an art, so much of what determines an excellent story can’t be…
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How To Build Your Author Email List
By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites As a child I would hear my babysitter say, “It’s always better to give than receive.” In my head I’d say, yeah but it’s not your chocolate bar your giving away. Even as an adult, no one touches my chocolate without my permission. All kidding aside, …
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7 Tips to Strengthen Your Self-Editing
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writers self-edit the same way they create a manuscript. They work according to how their brain processes information. The means of perfecting a fiction or nonfiction book involves tweaking and re-tweaking methods until we have produced an outstanding manuscript. Editing always makes our best even better,…
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When the Sparkle Is Missing From Your Writing
by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel Some days we are just more creative and have more spark to carry than other days, right? Some days we are super motivated to keep working on our writing and to convey what’s on our hearts. Other days we check off everything else on our list…
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Avoiding the Rut : Keeping Each Character Unique
By Bethany Klassen You wrote your outline, you started your rough draft, you paused to go back and read the last two chapters you wrote and… you realize your main character has the SAME PERSONALITY as the one in your last book. Now what? Has this ever happened to you?…
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Blunders in the Business of Writing
by Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted Every writer makes mistakes. We’re human. There’s not one of us who is perfect. And errors are sorta okay if we learn from them. It’s when we refuse to make the effort to correct our blunders that sucks the life out of our writing. [tweet_box design="default"…
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