12 Twitter Tips for Writers
Twitter is one of those good idea/bad idea things. On the one hand it’s an amazingly powerful tool for setting up a platform and communicating with your readers. On the other it’s a time sink equal to any other on the internet and it’s quite possible to spend a day doing almost nothing but tweet. [...]
Writing Full Time: Ten Things to Think About Before You Go Pro
Almost every writer I know wants to be a full timer, I certainly do. It’s a very understandable dream, who wouldn’t love to stay home and do what we love to make a living? There are a few things you need to bear in mind as you work your way towards massive word counts and [...]
A Quick Thought On Writing Temptation
Temptation is a fantastic plot device, and it’s an easy way to unstick a plot that isn’t going anywhere. The only real problem is that it’s very easy to get wrong, and the trap everyone seems to fall into is the temptation just isn’t very tempting. I’ve done, writing a scene where the main villain [...]
Writing Fighting: 12 Things Writers Need to Know
Writing about fighting is a popular pastime*. In fiction straight out combat is the resolution for a lot of problems, and it crops up in most genre fiction in one way or another. Unfortunately because most writers aren’t the type to pick fights a lot of strange things end up being written about fights that [...]
Five Things You Have To Think About Before You Self Publish
So, hanging out on Twitter I spotted a post from the awesome Krista D Ball expressing some frustration at authors who are moaning about their lack of sales after three months in the self-publishing game. It seems like a lot of authors are getting in on the self publishing thing because they’ve [...]
10 New Year Resolutions For Writers (that might actually stick)
So, it’s January, and the haze of food and drink is starting to clear. You might vaguely remember making some promises to yourself over the New Year, but we all know how the promises we make on January the 1st usually turn out. Maybe it’s time we made some resolutions that we can stick [...]
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