The story is … off. There is something wrong with it, and you don’t know exactly what it is. How do you fix it? Something went wrong somewhere. Not sure where. Or what is wrong. You’re stuck. It’s a huge tangle. How do you even start to fix it? You start at the beginning. Oh,…
Category: General Interest
Finding Your People
What made the conference spectacularly awesome was hanging out with other writers. I skipped interesting and informative classes to talk to writers. I stayed up way past my bedtime and functioned on minimal sleep in order to spend time hanging out with writers. I even skipped coffee once or twice in order to talk to writers.
Adventures in Cover Art for Traditionally, Hybrid, and Self-Published Authors by Theresa Alan
You finally finished your one-hundred-thousand word masterpiece after tireless effort, and, if your writing process is like mine, much metaphorical head bashing against your laptop. You think the hard part is done. You are wrong. Whether you’re traditionally published, self-published, or choose a hybrid publisher (you’ll get a small or no advance, an editor, a…
Are Your Characters Larger than Life?
So what exactly is a “larger than life” character? You hear that term bandied about all the time, especially as one of the attributes agents and editors are looking for in a good story. If you were to take the term literally, you’d be wrong. It fact, larger than life is often misused and assigned…
Choosing Cons to Attend – How Do You Decide?
I’m sorry to be missing seeing and meeting everyone this week at Colorado Gold! I’d planned to come up and at least sign on Friday night and meet Emily Keyes from my agency, as I have an out-of-town guest the rest of the weekend. However, I talked with Nina of Who Else Books while we…