Last spring I finished what seemed like the “book from hell”. Every chapter felt dredged from the depths of my creative soul. Like getting water from a well running dry, I could only scoop up a bare teaspoonful of story at a time. It got worse when two thirds of the way through I realized…
If this were a typical year, I would be attending Colorado Gold conference this month. Besides a few workshops and the social activities, I would make sure to attend the editor and agent roundtables, where “the experts” answer questions and give advice to aspiring writers. Over the years, the questions asked at these programs were…
Recent social isolation has left us in our own bubbles with much less contact with other writers as sounding boards for our work. Living in an echo chamber, while it may make us productive in terms of word count (or not), may also have allowed us to drift back into bad habits we thought we…
Managing your Author Platform: How to give more than you recieve When managing your author platform it is very important that you create and foster a community of fans for your writing. The first step of doing that is to write great books. The second step is creating great content for your fans on in…
In this part of our series about the jargon of the writing community, we’ll talk about terms that relate to writing or editing your work. You’re likely to hear these phrases from critique group members, beta readers, or your editor. Think of these terms as “good writing advice”. Oxford Comma (aka Serial Comma): A comma…