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Month: March 2018

Genre

Genre, like theme, brings up bad memories of  often bad English Lit teachers, who managed to take what should have been a good experience in…

Do you want to write or just live the lifestyle?

I read a question someone posed once – “Do you want to write, or just live the writer’s lifestyle?” I had to realize really that…

Lessons Learned from Classics

I have a collection of classic novels on my computer, usually read through as I eat my lunches on the weekend. There’s something about munching…

Theme for Writers

Remember those horrible classes where the teacher trained you to reluctantly read a story you didn’t want to read, then write down what the theme…

The Writers’ Guide to Okinawan Weapons

I gave a brief synopsis of Okinawan weapons last week in my Writer’s Guide to fight scenes. I thought I’d take a while and talk…

Using Foreign Language in your fiction

I have a handy talent – I’ve got an ear for languages. I can speak bits and fragments in quite a few languages, and carry…

Writer’s Groups

There are two schools of thoughts on writer’s groups – one says you should make sure you’re part of one, the other says not to.…

Social Media for Authors

Yesterday, I talked about choosing a Social Media Scheduling service, and I recommended Hootsuite. I did send in a feature request for Hootsuite to make…

Buffer Vs. Hootsuite

Social Media scheduling is crucial to the writer. You have to have some kind of front end to store your tweets and posts in advance,…