Month: October 2018

It would be fun to have a nationally syndicated newspaper column, so I could be like Mark Patinken. I mean, you could just do an…

There are times I think to myself, “nobody has the least idea how blogging works.” There’s one group that says you should NEVER write an…

Some very thought provoking articles about writers who lied. Apparently, there’s more and more people shooting themselves in the foot by going around Hollywood claiming…

A publish on demand service is not a publisher. A Hybrid publisher is still a “pay to play” situation. And I understand – they aren’t…

When you start a novel, you begin to work on selling your protagonist to the reader. They have to want to like the protagonist or…

I’m doing a lot of editing lately. So, I’m currently poking at my books, trying to get something ready for publication. I’d like to get…

Too often, writers will spend lavish time writing and editing their novels. Then they turn to the important things like the query letter and the…

Agents have some different ways of looking at things than writers do. Writers caution each other, “don’t put that in your query letter – it’ll…

Novel Structure. If you want to sit down and write a book, and you get Ywriter or WriteWay, or you even are in it to…

Writers tend to get into the mindset of get idea- develop plot – write 85,000 words – rinse and repeat. The mere suggestion that your…