In the book Meditations, Marcus Aurelius writes the name of a person. The person is someone he feels has influenced him. Then he lists the things he learned from that person. You could do that. That’s almost like a personal…
In the book Meditations, Marcus Aurelius writes the name of a person. The person is someone he feels has influenced him. Then he lists the things he learned from that person. You could do that. That’s almost like a personal…
If you are like me, you have several projects in progress. I have these blogs that I write every week. Then I have several completed manuscripts in my revision file. I have a couple that are waiting for final formatting…
The best tip I have for meeting deadlines is to keep up your self discipline and work on the project every day. Even if it’s only for an hour. You need to work on it. That’s the best way to…
Goals can be good motivators. They can encourage you to meet them. They can also make you depressed if you don’t make the goals. I’m a Weight Watcher. We have what we call star goals. It’s a way to set…
The main tool in a writer’s toolbox is the word. Choosing the right word to do the job is important. You need to be careful to choose the word that works the best in any given situation. There are several…
The what if method of generating story ideas is what it says. You take a fact, ask it what if this happened instead what if that happened? What if America lost the war of independent? What if John Wilkes Booth…
Titles are important. They are also hard to come up with. The title is what usually catches a reader’s eye first. Books are often listed by title on websites like Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. You will see a list…
Scenes are the building blocks of novels. That makes them important. You pantsers can ignore this blog. I’m talking about plotting a story out. I use a form that I created to do this work. The form has a name,…
This blog is about the dreaded writer’s block. We all suffer from it. Of course we don’t suffer all at the same time, but we do suffer from it. You’ll be writing and without warning. There. Are. No. More. Words.…