Do you hear voices in your head while writing? It can be a very good thing. As a veteran audiobook narrator, I am always impressed when the writing just flows smoothly without choppiness or a staccato pattern. Write Music The late, great author and writing coach Gary Provost says reading your written words aloud will…
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It’s Not All Hearts & Flowers – History Sucks Edition
First off, happy, happy Valentine’s day! Now let’s quit the mushy stuff and focus on writing. How does what happened yesterday affect your story? I’ll give you two examples to consider. Example #1 – You based a story in Southern California in 1979 with a teen girl as your protagonist. A coming of age story….
Volunteers Make it Happen At Colorado Gold
We’re seven weeks into the year, and workshop proposals are rolling in. Our selection committee is keeping busy reading through all the outlines, doing their best to decide which proposals will make it onto the schedule in 2017. Like the rest of the conference staff, the proposal selection committee is made up of volunteers. And…
We Disrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program
One of the things I keep hearing is that Amazon is disrupting the publishing business. That disruption is what allows independent authors like me to make a living in a field where – in the past – only a handful of superstars could quit their day jobs. I’ve been looking at this for a couple…
The Wonders of Vellum—Ebook Formatting Made Easy
One of the challenges of self-publishing is formatting your final files so they create an easy-to-read, nicely formatted final product. While you can always just upload your Word files and have the target site (Amazon or B&N or Smashwords) convert it for you, this approach doesn’t always provide the best results. There are plenty of…