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Month: June 2019

SmartEdit Writer – first impressions

I’m 100% sold on Scrivener. I hesitated for the longest time, still holding onto YWriter because I didn’t want to spend $40. Once I bought…

Writing Cliche’s You Should Eliminate Immediately

Once upon a time… a writer chose a visual so powerful it hit every reader, and created an emotional reaction. “A single tear ran down…

Superfluous Words

That. So. In (conclusion). Very. Just. Definitely. Then. Rather. Somewhat. Certainly. Quite. Absolutely. Really. Literally. Somehow. Began. Start. Cut. Remove. There’s a few others, but…

Why Writers Need to Beware the Self Publishing Trap

Many years ago, I taught music for a living. I was constantly trying to fill my schedule with enough students to make a good living.…

Why SocialOomph May Be a Sure Thing in 2019

I’m trying out SocialOomph as a replacement for Hootsuite. I did like Hootsuite when I first tried it. Their recent move to eliminating the autoschedule…

Little Known Reasons to Use Character Tweaks

Years ago, I saw a really terrible monster movie. Well, not just one – I seem to have spent my life watching every monster movie…

The Perils of the Samsung Galaxy J3

I bought a Samsung Galaxy J3 to replace my ZTE Maxxpro. I had researched very carefully the choices in phones, and was set on the…

7 Lessons to Learn About Failing NaNoWriMo

One of the most heartbreaking things I experienced in November was reading the tweets of writers who were unable to get their word counts. NaNoWriMo…

The Hardest Lesson to Learn As a Writer

After I’d written novel five (and abandoned number 4, because it had derailed), I was sent a video from a producer I was working with…