How To Self-Publish Your eBook on Amazon Kindle in 4 Minutes (Make Money Selling eBooks on Kindle)
This video is a great overview of how to self publish an eBook from a Microsoft Word document directly to Amazon. Once it’s published, you [Read More]
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How to Write (and Live) a Happy Ending: Kristina McMorris
In this episode of Character Test, I talk with a bestselling historical fiction author about how she creates characters we can connect with in any [Read More]
The Write Conversation: The Art of Writing Action
Characters do more than just talk at each other. They move—with grace, in anger, to disguise emotion—and movement tells even more about them than their [Read More]
The Making of a Hero or Heroine
By now, it’s pretty obvious that the days when the fiction shelves were dominated by straight white males are long, long over. Women authors may [Read More]
Fiction University: Give Your Readers Someone to Hate
Sometimes, your novel needs a character readers love to hate. Last week, Literary Rambles posted a great article about why we need unlikable characters that reminded me [Read More]
Fire Up Your First Draft: 10 Time-Saving Ways to Boost Writing Speed
You’re not alone. Cranking out a first draft is agony for many freelance writers. It can kill your productivity and suck the joy out of [Read More]
How to Convert Book Readers into Email Subscribers
This is a question that plagues all writers, but one proven way to do this is through reader magnets. Reader magnets are free resources you [Read More]
How to Plan, Write, and Develop a Book: Organizing Your Book: How I Learned to Love Scrivener
Books become unwieldy fast. Unlike a poem, essay, or short story, a book may generate thousands of pages by the time it’s revised down to [Read More]
Online Portfolio Examples: 10 Writer Websites We Love
Your online portfolio is the portal through which both clients and readers learn about you and your work, one of the best ways to land [Read More]
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Why and Where You Should Start Submitting Your Writing This September
“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged… I had poems which were re-written so [Read More]
10 Key Ways to Tighten Your Manuscript Before You Send It to Your Editor
Congratulations! You’ve completed your manuscript. That’s the hard part out of the way. Now it’s up to your Editor to clean it up, fix all [Read More]
Keeping a Writing Career On Track With Query Tracker
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42 Writers’ “Rules for Writing”
Most writers have their own special “rules for writing,” even if they don’t talk about them. I find other writers’ rules fascinating, even when I [Read More]
Location, Location, Location: Discovering the Perfect Place for Writing Your Novel
Richard Kirshenbaum used his experience working in advertising to tell the story of two rival beauty industry icons in his novel Rouge (St. Martin’s, June [Read More]
6 Ways You Are Destroying Your Chances of Finding Readers
I get it, you’re a writer. You want to find readers. Traditional publishers are paying less and less, and they are taking fewer books these [Read More]
The Best Pens of 2019: From Fountain to Ballpoint
While we can easily use our smart devices to create just about anything—reminders, notes, letters, novels, and even art—sometimes nothing beats the feel of a [Read More]
The 8 Best Notebooks for Writers
Leonardo DaVinci didn’t paint the Mona Lisa on a napkin. Where you put your art matters, too! If you’re still using the flimsy spiral-bound numbers [Read More]
46 Apps and Sites to Improve Your Writing Skills
No matter how good a writer you are, there’s always room for improvement. But improvement doesn’t just happen naturally—you have to work at it! Whether [Read More]
Writing Tips: Why Writing Yourself Into Your Own Hero’s Journey Can Help You Get Unstuck
Every writer gets stuck at times: stuck with a creative project, but also stuck in life. Lara Zielin shares a unique tool that she used [Read More]
Knowing When to Rewrite
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