Tag Archive | writers
How To Give Your Writing All-Around More A-peel
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Destine Williams Hey, everybody, Destine here from The Zen Zone. Don’t shoot me for the pun. There’s a good reason for it I swear! Maybe you’ve run into the problem of your settings feeling a little too thin, or characters feeling too cardboardy. But at the same time…
Want to Write Great Fiction? Stop Using the “Logical” Side of Your Brain
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Lauren Sapala Every morning when I open my inbox a landslide of emails from the online writing community pour out. Blog posts, newsletters, classes and programs and retreats. And then I jump on social media and the wave continues: Advice and instructions on character development, plotting your plot,…
Book Review: The Experimental Notebook of C.S. Boyack II
Originally posted on S.K. Nicholls:
Reading is not something I am able to do when I’m writing, or when I have personal family matters if front of me, like babysitting three kids (unless I’m reading to them). I haven’t been able to sit down and read a good book since September. One book I…
The Sweat and Tears in Writing
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Jordan Jolley If you devote time for the quality of your story, then your book’s potential can go far. There are two very common questions people ask me: “How long did it take you to write your first book?” and “Are you done with your second book?” It…
FREE continuing promotion right under your nose …
Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:
READERS will also find this interesting (and they can *see below how they may help), but … This post is mainly for all you angst-ridden authors out there who moan and groan about how little promotion and publicity you receive for the books you publish. Yes, it’s true,…
Be my guest …. a reminder
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
If you are a writer, artist or photographer…If you have a poem, story or memoirs to share… If you have a book to promote, a character to introduce, an exhibition or event to publicise… If you have advice for writers, artists or bloggers… Why not be my…
2 Tips For Introducing Your Protagonist
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Kathryn What’s wrong with this picture? ‘I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, find my big green eyes crusted with sleep. I brush my beautiful brown hair and check my flawless skin for pimples, but of course I don’t have any, so I don’t need…
The Ultimate Character Questionnaire (156 questions)…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
This character questionnaire has been collated from a variety of sources. It has been split into categories to try to make it more manageable, but this categorisation is far from perfect and lots of the questions could probably be in more than one category. If…
5 Mistakes Authors Make on Social Media
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Michael Cristiano I thought writing a novel was the hard part. I thought endless drafting and editing and proofreading involved the most work when it came to being a writer. I was wrong. My debut novel has been on sale for a little less than a month, and I…
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