My writing sucks. Or used to. Or still does. Doesn’t everyone’s at times? But now I have a remedy for my suckiness: My RMFW critique group. For the past three years, my work has been fortified by decades of experience and insights through the group members. They infuse my weekly installments with everything from basic…
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Competing with Free Books: A Marketing Lesson
If you feel like you are competing with free books on Kindle Unlimited or $.99 books on Amazon, I am about to let you in on the best kept secret no one wants you to know… Are you ready?
November: Writing and Turkey (But Don’t Write a Turkey!)
NaNoWriMo (sometimes I think it should be NaJaWriMo because it takes me three months to finish) is similar to Thanksgiving Day dinner. Plot To outline or not to outline? To pants-it or not to pants-it? Who wants five guests with the same speech pattern who all bring green bean casserole? Let alone they camp in…
Four Free-ish Research Resources for Writers of Historical Fiction
As writers of historical fiction, there’s a lot of things I can’t just make up. I mean, there’s the big research: What happened in this historical event? Who was there? What were the consequences? But then there’s the intermediate stuff: How would someone insult someone else in this period? What was popular in art &…
Comanding the Muse
For the last six years I’ve had this on again, off again relationship with my Muse. For the most part I’d plod on with my droll life until inspiration struck. Out of nowhere a story arc or unforgettable character would flood my mind and I’d drop whatever I was doing and write up a storm….