One of the things that has bothered me since I started my journey of being a writer and author is how to market my book to an audience when I’m virtually unknown. Beyond my small hometown and my circle of…
Me and my writing life
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Marketing and PR on your own as an author
Tagged with: Author, author tips, Book, David Meerman Scott, E-book, New Rules of Marketing, New Rules of Marketing and PR, Public relations, social-media, writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Me and NaNoWriMo
Yes, I will be one of the many participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who aren’t writers) this month. This is the spur I’m going to use to get the third novel of my trilogy…
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Why choosing the right color for things is important
I’ve been absent from my blog for a little while lately, the reason being that I bought and moved into a house! Yes, I am now a homeowner. Along with figuring out where I wanted to put everything in my…
Tagged with: accent color, Color, Color preferences, Color wheel, design tips, Paint, twitter, writing tips
Posted in Intrigues, Writing tips
Posted in Intrigues, Writing tips
Story of my not noticing details
I was sitting in a Golden Corral restaurant, holding the table while my mom and brother were up getting food. I hadn’t been sitting for more than a couple minutes when a lady walked up to me with our drinks,…
Tagged with: details, Golden Corral, memory, Sherlock Holmes, writing, Writing Exercises
Posted in Intrigues, Writing tips
Posted in Intrigues, Writing tips
Changing Point of View to Defy Writer’s Block
I was sitting at my computer the other day, trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my current work in progress. I was facing a horrific case of writer’s block. I didn’t know what was going…
Tagged with: Apple, Writer, Writers Block, Writers Resources, writing, Writing Exercises
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Humor takes work in writing
I was driving my friend and her two nieces around one day on some errands, and I was about to drop her off to see her boyfriend before I took the girls back to their parents when the older girl…
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Imperfect and real
I was reading an old Writer’s Digest the other day, and I came across this excerpt from On Writing Romance by Leigh Michael. The title of the article in Writer’s Digest was “Create the (Im)Perfect Heroic Couple,” and the author…
Tagged with: Creating characters, Leigh Michael, tips, Writer's Digest, writing
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Posted in Writing tips
Add Into Fire
Add Over Water
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