What Makes You Feel Like A Real Author

What Makes You Feel Like A Real Author

by | Aug 4, 2019 | Blog, Life, Self-publishing, Writing

The Writer’s Well Podcast has done it again. They’ve asked an incredibly fascinating and thought-provoking question: What makes you feel like a real author? They asked this of each other—the two hosts Rachel Herron and J. Thorn, as well as one of Rachel’s friends,...
Plotting with the Snowflake Method

Plotting with the Snowflake Method

by | Jul 28, 2019 | Blog, Method, Writing

I’ve talked a lot about plotting on this blog. I believe that it’s essential to have some sort of road map to follow when you’re writing. I completely understand that there are people who write by the seat of their pants who have no desire to even know how the book...
SMART Goals

SMART Goals

by | Jul 21, 2019 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

If you’ve been around the block a few times, as I have, you’ve probably heard of SMART goals. If you haven’t, I’m here to tell you about them today because they are an integral part of getting that writing—or really anything!—done. It might not hurt to read through a...
Five Lessons from Fifteen Years of Publishing

Five Lessons from Fifteen Years of Publishing

by | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog, Life, Writing

Time has a strange way of sneaking up on you. So often you’ll see someone exclaiming on social media, “What? It’s July already? What happened to June, or May, or April for that matter?” For me a similar thing happened except even more extreme. I suddenly realized that...
Classifying Yourself

Classifying Yourself

by | Jun 30, 2019 | Blog, Method, Writing

Last week I told you all about this cool way players of Dungeons & Dragons classify their characters based on how well they follow laws or rules (lawful/neutral/chaotic) and what sort of person they are (good/neutral/evil). Click here to read that post if you...