I came across this quote last week while attending a webinar for work and was amazed at how interested I was in these six small words. Though there is some debate as to who the quote should be attributed to,…
Me and my writing life
A blog about books, my ideas and what I've learned as I work towards becoming a full-time author.
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Conciseness: a writing gift
Tagged with: Baby, Communication, Ernest Hemingway, six words, Writer, writing
Posted in Intrigues, Writing tips
Posted in Intrigues, Writing tips
Writing outside of the outline
I hate creating and writing from outlines. There, I’ve written it down. I’ve posted this for the whole world to see. Maybe now people will stop telling me to create an outline for projects.
Marketing & PR as an author: Connect with other bloggers
This is the second post about my experience reading David Meerman Scott‘s book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR. As I said in November, I am going to post a few different posts about what I learned from reading it and how what…
Tagged with: blog, Blogger, Creative Penn, David Meerman Scott, social-media, twitter, writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Muse, where are you? Me against my writing.
It’s me against the computer. My eyes attempt a stare down of the screen, with the cursor mocking me with every blink. I type one halting sentence, and then stop. My mind is blank. I know where I want my…
Tagged with: Margaret Atwood, Writer, Writers Block, Writers Resources, writing
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Reputation is everything
This weekend I received an interesting direct message on Twitter from a writer whose book I had previously reviewed. “My book’s changed to the extent that UR review’s no longer accurate [link to review]. Consider yourself lucky I haven’t reviewed…
Tagged with: Author, book review, books, E-book, ereader, malicious, reputation, Review, rude, twitter
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Top posts of 2012 and what I’ve learned for 2013
Thought I would share the top blog posts of 2012, since I’ve been told it’s important to not only write posts, but to also analyze how those posts have done and what has worked to get readers to your blog.…
