Category: How To and Tips
THE NAME GAME How To Decide What To Call Your Characters
THE NAME GAME How To Decide What To Call Your Characters By Christina Hamlett Naming your fictional characters can be as challenging as deciding what to call a real-life bundle of human joy. Unlike reality, however, this is a purposeful mission insofar as encouraging your readers to immediately love them, hate them, distrust them or […]
How to Start a Podcast and Magazine Without Really Trying
How to Start a Podcast and Magazine Without Really Trying Also Known As It Was the Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times By Deb Hunter During the Covid lockdown of 2020, many of us turned to the Clubhouse app. Maybe we simply wanted to hear the voices of others, share our mutual […]
New Kid in Town: Five Ways to Develop a Local Readership
New Kid in Town: Five Ways to Develop a Local Readership by Elizabeth Sumner Wafler A year ago, my husband and I moved to Greenville, SC. How could I make bookish friends in this burgeoning Southern city and garner a readership for my women’s fiction? I got to work. Begin with a landmark bookshop. An […]
An Unlikely Writer
Does this sound like a future writer to you? A child with abandoned journals and disgruntled pen pals. Assigned essays left until the absolute last minute. A teenager reading only non-fiction whose worst subject is English. An extroverted people-person who couldn’t bear the solitude of flipping burgers, let alone being stuck at a desk. Writing? […]
GIVING YOUR READERS WHAT THEY WANT
Giving Your Readers What They Want: Why It’s Important to Know the Rules Imagine one day, you have a craving for chocolate cream pie. I mean, the perfect kind of chocolate cream pie that’s the ideal combination of a buttery crust, sweet chocolatey filling, and decadent whipped cream. Are you drooling yet? You go to […]
Reading Like A Writer
Reading Like a Writer by Catherine Pomeroy We’ve all heard the advice: read like a writer. Read everything you can devour. Read outside your genre. It’ll be good for you, they say, kind of like eating your Brussels sprouts. You’ll expand your vocabulary, pick up nuances from the literary masters—although for heaven’s sake, keep your […]
Amy Beashel: My Writing Journey
In 2016, I wrote my first book for young adults, a novel which secured me both an agent and – surprisingly – a world record. When I realised my protagonist would attempt to become the fastest woman in the world on a space hopper, I realised too that research was key. And so… I went […]
When Writing Becomes an Act of Self-Care
When writing becomes an act of self-care The other day, I was talking to one of my mentors in the world of Yoga and Ayurveda, and he said, “The work we do is intense, Sweta. Take care of yourself.” I sat with his words for a good month before making this decision, “I will start […]
HOW MY WORK INFLUENCES MY WRITING – Cristina LePort
I have been a physician for longer than 40 years, but I just became an author. When I look back at my journey, I can see how my second passion was born from my first profession like a child from a mother’s womb, with the difference that in my case my work and my writing […]
Writing and PTSD: After the Accident
After the Accident Imagine it’s New Year’s Eve, you’re twenty-one years old, your vehicle is rear-ended by a drunk driver, and your best friend is killed. What do you do when the driver is ticketed for careless driving and is free to live his life? What do you do when your family pretends the murder […]
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