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Entropy is REAL and Author Careers Need Feeding DAILY | Kristen Lamb’s Blog

Entropy is REAL and Author Careers Need Feeding DAILY | Kristen Lamb’s Blog. I have just started reading Kristen Lamb’s very helpful book, Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Writer.  This is a great book for...

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The Business of Self-Publishing: What to Include in Your Ebook Besides The Story

As brand-new publishers-to-be ourselves, we’re looking for all sorts of information from other publishers about how to improve our product … once we have product to offer, of course.  Part of our...

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Worldbuilding 101

Okay, so our friend, Ryan, is really excited about this whole blogging-as-an-author thing (he was practically bouncing in the hallway after church, talking about it to everyone who would listen), and...

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Herbert Spencer on counting syllables | Alec Nevala-Lee

This post, linked below, is an excellent example of ‘do what I say, not what I do’.  In the quote, Herbert Spencer goes on, in great, flowery language, to tell us to eschew obfuscation, and to minimize...

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When Is It Time to Start Building an Author Platform? | Kristen Lamb’s Blog

Whether you are just beginning as a writer, or you are already an established author with a lucrative book contract and a shelf full of hardbound copies of your fifteenth NYT Best Seller, or you are...

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Why do you write?

Writing (Photo credit: jjpacres)     Everyone has their own reasons for doing things.  You have your reasons for writing, and I have mine, and they aren’t all going to be the same reasons.  We all have...

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Writing Guidelines? Pick Your Own! – Women Writers, Women Books

Here is an excellent post on assorted rules and guidelines of writing style, and why you need to break them. Especially highlighted is the ‘rule’ about never using an adverb in your writing. This post...

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