As far as I’m concerned, this story made opening my Twitter account worthwhile all by itself. When I started following people on Twitter, I looked up some of my favorite authors to see if they had accounts, and I was…
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Story Structure–Important for Both Plotters and Discovery Writers
Story structure is incredibly important to your writing. It’s the skeleton on which you hang your entire tale. No matter how lovely your prose, if you aren’t telling a solid tale underneath, most readers will be unhappy with it. They…
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Editor’s List of Common Mistakes
I found these tips here at AbsoluteWrite, an online writing group that was a great help to me in dealing with the horrible helpless feeling over having no idea how to edit my books. This list was the very first…
Your Protagonist–Don’t Write a Mary Sue
New writers have a tendency to write characters who are unrealistically perfect. After all, if you’re female, wouldn’t it be great to have long blonde hair, perfect boobs, and big blue eyes that charm every guy around? And if you’re…
Beta Readers
A beta reader is someone who gives you feedback on your writing. Hopefully, more than you see in my illustration, but you take what you can get. Typically, a beta reader will receive your work when it’s been edited and…
Posting a Photo on Twitter
I’ve been tweeting for a while now, getting a feeling for expressing myself in 140 characters or less. But the big exception to this is that we’re also allowed to post images. A picture can say a lot, particularly if…
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