writing advice

You want to be a writer. So you write and write and write. But still no one seems to take you seriously. You’re following the submission guidelines, you’ve addressed the...

It’s one of those days. Perhaps the rejection pile is growing larger while successes seem few and far between. Perhaps there’s a series of miscommunications or project delays that makes...

Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal, put out an interesting article regarding marketing in the business world. The interesting thing about his article is that he's not talking about...

I have another lovely guest author post for my blog. This time, we're talking about promotion. I'd like everyone to welcome YA Author Sharon Ledwith. You can follow her on...

I have another lovely guest author post for my blog. This time, we’re talking about promotion. I’d like everyone to welcome YA Author Sharon Ledwith. You can follow her on...

I've heard the stories, but never had the experience. As soon as a writer gets some name recognition, she is approached by a publisher who wants her work. In fact,...

Now here's a hot button topic for you. Writing is hard enough. Once a manuscript gets accepted, then a new kind of torture starts. They call it The Editing Process....

On April 9th, I wrote about Writing in the Face of Real Life, but there is something very important I forgot to address. The guilt factor. Face it. When we...

So it seems some of my more technical blogs are suddenly getting Russian responses, which I cannot read of course since I don't speak or read Russian. But I hit...

Yesterday, I discussed the basics of world building (here). Now I’d like to add a few things not usually discussed in college fiction courses. As you are creating your world,...