Tips for Getting the Feedback You Really Need
As a writer, it’s one of the key ingredients to being successful, whether you’re article writing, blogging, or working on your umpteenth book.
tips
When your book finds commercial print, don’t go to sleep. A cautionary tale.
It won’t be a winner unless you make it so. You must throw yourself wholeheartedly into that side of the business called publicity without taking a rest to smell the daisies.
How Do I Create My Male Characters?
Characters mostly choose their narrator. I can say that convincingly having experienced that a number of times with my characters: they come, I start the story and they take over!
Book Blogger Confessions: Tips for Indie Authors
Guidelines to follow when dealing with book reviewers
How To Write An Artist’s Resume
As an artist, you’ll feel as though that you can’t create a regular resume.
I Won’t Apologize For Being A Logophile
I am a full blooded, totally committed Logophile. It’s something I practice everyday and everywhere.
Short description of the writing process: Beginner’s guide
You will start to create images for the reader, images that will help you penetrate their mind, creating that “state of well-being” that they have been waiting for all day long.
Help Crush Your Fear of Writing with These Two Things
If the fear of writing is getting you down, it’s time for some basic preparations that will crush this nasty nemesis and fortress your efforts.
Killing the Monster
Each time I finish a book, I think of Winston Churchill’s famed quote about the phases of writing. The one beginning with this sentence: Writing is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. And ends…”you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
This time, the monster has teeth, big sharp ones. Why?
Because this time I decided I wanted to write about characters who were evil. Shouldn’t be too difficult for someone who loves devouring thrillers, right? You know, those created by the likes of Dean Koontz, Harlan Coben, Lee Child, and Joseph Finder? . Could I do it? Create not only an assassin but someone worse? As real, believable?
Churchill was wholly right. In the beginning of the new story, the writing was fun, even exciting. Walking in the shoes of a man who gets paid to kill- my imagination soared, leaped tall buildings as the character took on flesh and bones. I found myself reading sections aloud to my husband because of the character’s credibility. That creative freedom of fiction is exhilarating and is one of the many surprises of my switch from writing non-fiction to fiction. Some characters are so real that they cannot be left at the end of the book. They have taken up residence in our hearts. The reason that both authors and readers are drawn to book series- we find we love Harry Potter and Jack Reacher far too much to ever let them go.