You finally finished your first draft of that novel! It took you months, maybe years, but you did it! Congratulations, bucko. Treat yourself to a double-shot peppermint mocha with whip cream and chocolate sprinkles. While your sipping on your eight dollar drink, you crack open your laptop, run your novel through a spellchecker, send it … Continue reading Why Beta-Readers and Critical Feedback Matters
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Creating Worlds of Wonder (1 of 3)
Here, we discuss world-building. If you're a writer in fantasy, horror, and science-fiction, you have to do a little world-building which is establishing the setting, rules, and workings of the environment your characters live and interact with.For example, your story takes place in a kingdom ruled by a young queen who has reached her fifth … Continue reading Creating Worlds of Wonder (1 of 3)
Staying Motivated to Write
Being a writer is hard work. An experienced writer will have a ton of ideas raging through their head, several works in progress at any one time, social media updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, their website to maintain, their own blogging, etc. You, on the other hand, are new. You're just trying to write … Continue reading Staying Motivated to Write
A Good Writing Prompt Method to Help You
There are times when we all need a boost of inspiration. Writing a book is a mentally draining experience. It even takes more energy to continue to present a fresh story every time you produce something new. The last thing you want your die-hard fans to say is that you're rehashing old stories, characters, and … Continue reading A Good Writing Prompt Method to Help You
Get the Blood Pumping and Write Those Action Scenes!
One of the things I notice when beta-reading for new writers is how they approach action scenes. They either increase the tension up to where a fight should be inevitable and then back away from the potential fight or they engage in the fight and it’s a mess—the reader can’t figure out what’s going on … Continue reading Get the Blood Pumping and Write Those Action Scenes!
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