Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a foreign language to most authors. The goal of SEO is for your audience to easily find you by searching your name or your book title. Most people never search past the first page of results given by the search engine. So, you must optimize your search-ability within these…
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Rocky Mountain Writer #141
David S. Atkinson & Roses Are Red, Violets Are Stealing Loose Change From My Pockets While I Sleep This time on the podcast, two short stories (well, flash fiction) and an interview with the writer, David S. Atinkson. David, who was last on the podcast more than 18 months ago, is the author of the…
Increased procrastination or increased motivation? That depends on you.
Have you ever been searching for that something special for one of your characters, a subplot, a setting, a way to kill off a character, or perhaps researching for a historical fiction manuscript and it happens? You click. You have no self-control—you simply click! For example: Xkcd’s Radiation Dose Chart – PA: 88. LRD: 988….
Writing Great Villains, Part Two
A couple of weeks ago, I was cruising Netflix when I saw that Luke Cage Season 2 was out. Excited, I texted my wife at work to let her know what we would be watching in the immediate future. Now, I’m not big on binging TV shows. I am far too busy. Besides, if it’s a…
DEEP POV Lesson 2 – Let’s Get Started
Hello again! Welcome back. Today we’re going to start down the DEEP POV road. We’ll look at some examples and hear what some other authors have to say about going DEEP. One thing I’d like to point out is that we’re not looking at writing in DEEP POV all the time. Scenes or partial scenes…