Tips and Advice About Writing and Self-Publishing
If you’re constantly wondering the best way to market your book, author Ann Everett has some tips… The book marketing landscape continues to change so fast what works today will most likely be ineffective within the next six months. When I first published, book tours were considered a top marketing tool. By the time…
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For this week’s prompt your character gets a tattoo. Is it their first tattoo? Do they already have lots of tattoos? Does someone dare them to get one? What sort of tattoo do they get and why? Do they have regrets or second thoughts about their decision? Have fun and happy writing.
One of my main concerns when I decided to freelance was would I be motivated enough to put in a full day’s work. It’s a whole new world when you no longer have someone looking over your shoulder or telling you what to do next. Lucky for me, I had one great motivator and that…
Have you ever set a goal, like writing a book, but it you never achieve it? One thing I’ve found is writing down my goals can be a key to sucess. No one gets to see them, but somehow putting them down on paper makes it seem like you’re sharing your goal with the world. It’s…
This week’s flown by at a faster pace than normal and that’s probably because I’ve been packing lots into each day. I also got some work done on my two non-fiction projects. I keep thinking of more things to add each time I write which is both a good and bad thing. It’s…
I thought I’d go with a different type of post for this one. When I was starting out as both an author and freelance writer I was always looking for markets and contests to enter so I thought I’d share this with you. Here are details of markets and contests I’ve recently been sent information…
For this writing prompt it’s all about a message in a bottle. Is your character the one who finds the bottle? Maybe they’re the one who writes the message? What is written on the sheet of paper? Is it something romantic or was it written as an SOS? When was it written and how…
Are you experiencing a roadblock with your story or writing in general? Here’s Seelie Kay to show us how she works through it. “Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” ― Kurt Vonnegut While I have never…
Read more Working through the roadblocks by author Seelie Kay
I thought I’d share with you something I included in a today’s lesson for one of my workshops. I told the students they should set a writing schedule. Even write something on their calendar like ‘writing time’. Treat it like you would any other important appointment and think about the consequences if you miss…
Can you tell from the title of this post that it’s back to winter? A foot of snow earlier in the week and today, howling winds and temps in the 20s. I’m pretty sure this time last year I was sitting outside to write a few Friday Ramblings. I’m guessing we’re going to skip spring…
