by Katriena Knights If you’ve seriously pursued writing for any amount of time, you know you can’t be trusted to judge your own work. Scenes that seem wonderfully constructed in our heads are completely incomprehensible to other people. Glorious flights of poetic prose are actually pools of verbal quicksand from which no reader will ever…
Tag: Advice
On Mastery
By Kerry Schafer Finish the damn book. I know you’ve heard this before. You’ve heard it from writers far more well known than I am, people like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. There’s even a Finish the Damn Book Contest out there you can enter, if you need that kind of encouragement. Why? Because every…
10 Myths about Being an Author
By J.A. Kazimer My name is Julie and I’m an author. You know I’m telling the truth, because it says so right there on that book —> Anyway, people are always asking questions. The big one is “Would you like fries with that?” but sometimes the questions relate to being an author. I’m not sure…
WORLD-BUILDING WARREN’S WAY
By Warren Hammond Why do you read fiction? You might say compelling characters. Or high-stakes drama. Maybe you love the plot twists you didn’t see coming. Those are all valid responses, but when taken alone, isn’t each of them inadequate? Don’t you read fiction for all those reasons, plus probably dozens of others that I…
Action Plans for the Scattered and Unmotivated
by Kerry Schafer Last month I shared some of my thoughts about intentions, suggesting that it’s a good idea to have some and see where they take you. And then I tacked a little afterthought on the end, saying how next time we’d talk about Action Plans. I still maintain that intentions are lovely and wonderful…