Genres for the Independent Author
Genres are a fascinating part of the writing profession. They mean nothing and everything; they are both limiting and freeing; they are arbiters and arbitrary...
Genres are a fascinating part of the writing profession. They mean nothing and everything; they are both limiting and freeing; they are arbiters and arbitrary...
If you’re an independent author, you’ve probably done a lot of work on your title, blurb, and cover. Don’t screw it all up with the...
I am going to get right to the point and tell you the secret of writing action scenes: It’s not about the action. Like everything...
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” Walt Whitman Way back when I was...
More and more, books and publications that were once exclusively science fiction or fantasy or horror are calling themselves “speculative fiction.” But what is speculative...
We talk a lot about how to write better and the tools you need to do that, but we don’t talk a lot about the...
Resonate. It’s the word I use most often when talking about writing. But what does it really mean? Take the word home. The dictionary definition...
Sometimes the writing just won’t work. The words won’t come, or they’re all wrong when they do. Even if you manage to type something, you...
In the eternal debate about what is the best way to write, two terms have come into common usage: plotter and pantser. Plotters are the...
Let’s talk about critics. There are a lot of affirmations rolling around the internet about how you must get rid of the negative people in...