Editors and agents see lots of manuscript each week. Readers see lots of newly self published books each week. So, how do you make yours stand out? How do you take a plot that everyone’s seen hundreds of times before and put a new spin on it? One easy way to give your readers something…
It’s NaNoWriMo and how are you doing? I thought I’d share with you some more of my favorite tips to help you finish the first week. Take Breaks A long, long time ago, I used to be able to sit for hours and write. Now if I do that, my body tells me it was…
No Tuesday guest blogger this week so thought I’d address a topic that’s been on my mind for several months. While I haven’t done as much reading over the summer as I’d hoped, I have read the beginning of many stories and chosen to pass on them. They might have been great stories but they…
Tuesday was a day I’d be dreading for a long time. It began not as I’d planned. My tabby cat who was 22 years and 2 months old (yes, you read that right), showed signs that his journey was coming to end. Up to a few weeks ago, you would never have believed he was…
Two posts in one day, but I wanted to let you know that my How to Write a Non-Fiction Book in 30 Days is on sale. It’s a four week self paced course with other great resources like a Kindle publishing guide and self publishing planner. It’s on sale for just $5 because I’m taking…
Here’s Dee with a tough love talk for all writers… Verbs, those pesky devils When I applied to be a professional editor for training manuals at a national firm, I had to take a test. I passed (yay!), and was invited to a personal interview. During the interview, I was asked how I thought I…
My late mother used to call me a pefectionist. She was right, even when I was a child, I tried to make everything perfect. It puts a ton of pressure on you, not from outside forces but from within and we often do it with our writing. My need to be perfect slowed my writing…
I got my edits done on my WIP…well, I guess it’s no longer a WIP. Now I have to format it. My idea was to release it on Black Friday, but I’m launching three new products over on my Budget Smart Girl site, so now my plan is to release…drum roll please, Bewitching the Bear…
Want to write a great story every time you sit down to write? Read on… Last weekend, I decided to clean and organize the pantry. A boring chore and I really wanted to sit and read but I decided to make the most of it. I pulled out my Ipad and clicked on the Tubi…
Not a science fiction writer but feel like tackling a sci fi story? Here’s a photo prompt to get you started. What great sci fi story can you create? Maybe your character even does some time traveling. Perhaps they wake up and see this image outside the window. An added benefit is, there are lots…
Taking part in NaNoWriMo? Been writing every day? Congratulations. You’re now over the half way point. As we don’t have a guest blogger today, I thought I’d take this space to give you a mid NaNoWriMo pep talk to help you make it across the finish line. Just think how proud you’re going to feel…
Do you often tell yourself that your story is awful, or that you’ll never be as good the author whose book you just read? I’ve done it. Even after writing one hundred plus books and stories, I have days when I think my writing isn’t good enough. It’s okay to have days like those but…
It’s almost mid November and I’m about two weeks away from releasing a new book. You’d think by now I wouldn’t give it a second thought, wouldn’t get excited about it, but it’s my first ‘new’ one in what seems like forever. For the last three years, the majority of books I’ve published have been…
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Time for another video prompt. Where is the man walking? Who does he meet? Someone he knows? Has he walked to this location with a specific goal in mind? Lots you can do with this so have fun and happy writing.
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