Looking to put a little pep in your writing? Struggling with finding a home for your book? Check out some tips and tricks from me and other authors.
Category: Writing and Publishing Tips
6 Essentials of World Building
The 6 Essentials of Sci-Fi & Fantasy World Building Guest Post by David Michael Williams We writers must know more about our story than will ever make it into the pages of a book. That’s true for …
Invisible Power: An Experiment with Erasure Poetry
I sat amid a tumult of paper, much of it in crumpled little wads. Each sheet bore evidence of frustration and indecision—little squiggles, larger, more permanent swaths of black sharpie, words circled, crossed out, and circled again. …
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10 Event Ideas for Generating Interest in a Project or Platform
The key to the success of any entertainment-based project or platform is getting your audience engaged. Be it a book, website, or some other creative endeavor, if your potential audience doesn’t know it exists, they can’t engage. …
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Author Nick Dybek & Magic Beans: useful terrible words, ironic singing, created experiences-Ep.13
A 60-minute podcast in which Author Nick Dybek joins Kelsey to discuss the books that impacted him the most as a writer. He also shares his writing process, discusses his bad writing habits, and talks about the …
Robert Louis Stevenson and Google Earth
by Federico Ferrario I’ve never been to Idaho. I’m sure the Idahoans are great people and that the Gem State is very beautiful, with its immense and unspoiled woods, its lakes, and national monuments like the Craters …
Bouncing Back When You Mess Up
A Guest Article by Dana Fraedrich Hello, dear readers! For those of you who don’t know me, here’s the skinny. About eight months ago I quit my nine-to-five job to focus on my writing career. This was …
Platform Building Tips and Tricks
Many new writers balk at platform building, but I argue that it is something that should be embraced. We all need a tribe, a group of people who are solidly in our corner, supporting us and fighting …
5 Reasons Why You Should Start Building Your Writing Platform
When I finally finished writing my fourth book, I decided it was time to start thinking about publishing the most polished of my manuscripts. Like I did with writing, I immersed myself in weeks of research. I …
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The Dragon Test—Building a Compelling World
Guest Post by Author R.A. McCandless Dragons are awesome, awe-inspiring, and absolutely alliteratively artistic. They’re also impossible. That’s what the Dragon Test helps you understand. Think about your story, your world, or the story you want to …
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