Tips and Advice About Writing and Self-Publishing
Time for another Hi Susan post. Sara asked the following- I submitted my synopsis and first three chapters to an editor two months ago and I haven’t heard anything about my submission. When should I contact them to ask what’s happening? I know how frustrating it is when you’ve sent your work to an…
Remember when you were a child and your parents told you (maybe bribed you), eat all your food and you’ll get some dessert? Childhood might be a distant memory for most of us but you can use this same principle to motivate yourself into writing. I’ve done it a lot during NaNoWriMo. I tell…
Can you believe that we’re half way through August? My mystery novel is slowly progressing. I’m still aiming for Dec 31st as the deadline for completion of the first draft. Anyone else working on a deadline? This week I recorded and uploaded another class to Skillshare, this one focuses on conflict and emotion. Here’s the…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Planning the Planners
I don’t usually put my workshop schedules on here as a post but instead have them on a separate section of the site(they’ll still be there), but as next year I’ll be teaching exclusively for one chapter of Romance Writers of America (RWA), I thought I’d make a post about classes I’ll be teaching and what’s…
This week’s prompt is a photo one and here it is- Where is the little girl? Is she lost? Has she been to a carnival and won this toy? Is she running away? Lots of directions you can take this one. Have fun and happy writing.
Are you interested in being a guest blogger on This Writer’s Life? You can blog on anything that’s writing related for example- How you plan your writing time How you fixed a writing problem How you create characters or plot your stories Doing research Staying motivated How you got published Each post can include…
When I first began writing I used to see this image in my head. It was me, a published author, in a bookstore signing copies of my latest book. Sometimes when I got a rejection letter or didn’t feel like my work was good enough, I sit and dream about one day being in that…
Read more Monday Motivation-If A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Hope everyone’s had a productive writing week. I have a few more hours to go before I call it a day. I have lots planned for next week including getting this month’s classes for Skillshare recorded and published. I’ll also be putting the new sign up list on the site for guest bloggers for fall. This…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Guest Bloggers, New Class Schedule
In recent Ramblings, I’ve mentioned lots of projects I’m working on and I can finally share a couple of them with you. The first one is another web site that I’d planned to use as a sister site to this one and have it focus on my self-publishing journey. I’m ashamed to…
Read more Go Self Published Launches (and so does my new journal/planner)
Last month I told you about the Story Cubes I purchased. I thought it would be fun to try some writing prompts based on them. Here’s what the roll of the cubes produced this time around. Lots of ideas and you don’t have to include everything you see. A couple of times I’ve picked two…
Read more Wednesday Writing Prompts- First Story Cubes Prompt
