Try Guest Blogging – May Writing Challenge
Try guest blogging, this month’s writing challenge.
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Writing Nonfiction to Pay the Bills
If your great love is writing fiction, yet you can’t seem to make a living doing that yet, this tip might help. Try writing nonfiction. Most novelists don’t make a living from their first book – not unless that first book turns into something like Harry Potter or the Twilight series. Usually, it’s only over…
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Cat about Town – A Cat Cafe Mystery- Review
Cat About Town, the first book in the Cat Cafe Mysteries series, takes place on an island off the coast of Massachusetts.
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What to Write on a Sympathy Card
When a person is grieving over a loss of any kind – a family member, a friend, or a pet – you may be at a loss for words. What to write on a sympathy card that can afford some measure of comfort for the recipient? Let Them Know You Care First, realize that the…
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Writing a Picture Book is Like Getting New Tile by Nancy I. Sanders
by Nancy I. Sanders We had a new tile floor put in a few years ago. During the process, I was amazed at the number of similarities it had with the journey it takes in writing a picture book. The Idea Stage My husband Jeff and I walked into a local hardware store for new…
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Online Presence – A Guide for Authors
by Corrin Foster, Greenleaf Book Group Over 3 billion people utilize social media. Authors now have the unique opportunity to create an online presence and generate buzz for their book by tapping into an engaged and passionate demographic of readers. As social media continues to evolve and new platforms are introduced, it can be daunting…
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Writers’ Focus: Two Productivity Strategies
by Karen Cioffi Sometimes the moons and stars align and information that is relevant to your life bombards your week, directing you onto paths you should take. Well, this happened to me. Time management is one of my ongoing struggles, as with probably most of you reading this. So, what do you do? How do…
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Vague and Ambiguous vs. Vivid and Specific Words
Writing instructors constantly emphasize several important rules related to using vivid, specific words rather than vague and ambiguous ones when writing both fiction and nonfiction. These rules are termed “show, don’t tell,” “paint a picture with words,” “banish boring verbs,” “bring the reader into the story,” and “use adjectives and adverbs sparingly,” but they all…
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The Writer’s Life: Give Yourself Grace
by Amy O’Quinn Have you ever experienced a season of discouragement in your writing life when nothing seems to go right, and no matter what you do, you keep messing up? Did you make a commitment to yourself to write consistently for three hours each afternoon, but you fizzled out after three weeks? Did you…
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Use Your Journal to Set Your Writing Intentions
At a meeting of a weight loss group, one of the members mentioned that, upon waking every morning, she and her husband take a few minutes to use their journal to write out what their intentions are for their weight loss efforts and for their day. This lady and her husband are not writers. They…
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Freelance Editor or Critiquer – Finding a Good One
Many people hire a freelance editor to help with revising and polishing their manuscripts, especially if they are just starting out as a writer or are encountering difficulties with selling a particular manuscript. Some folks who are in local or online critique groups get this type of feedback from their critique partners, but some writers,…
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Writing Mysteries – Ten Tips That Work for Writing Series
Writing Mysteries by Camille Minichino Readers of crime fiction love series. They like nothing better than to get to know a protagonist and his world over the course of many books, much as we enjoy the episodes of a television drama series. Each story must stand alone, with its own character and story arcs, but…
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