Usually, when I release a book, I like to do a bit of tongue-in-cheek post about the thoughts that run through your head, such as: Reading Your Book: Thoughts That Run Through Your Head Thoughts That Run Through Your Head Now You’re A Published Author Thoughts That Run Through Your Head When You Release A …
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There’s a lot of work and emotion that goes into putting a book into the world. After all, it comes off the back of years of writing, self-doubt, triumphs, rejections, and elation. There are expectations too, your own and from others, but like the meticulous planning of your novel that went out the window with …
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When you start out in the writing community, you’re learning, and part of that process is seeing those before you rise. Just as you’re entering the query trenches, there are others being lifted out of them with agent representation and publishing deals, and you wait patiently for the day that person will be you. Before …
If you’ve been reading my blog posts since last year, you’ll know I spent most of it rewriting my work in progress. Helpful advice from beta readers pointed out that I hadn’t gotten it completely right and that I needed to make major changes to get everything to work. This took me six months, and …
While there are just as many writing tricks as there are ways to tell a story, there are some specific ones that can help make your book something special, and one of those is internal thoughts. If you’ve never heard of the concept, it’s where you let the reader inside a character’s head by writing …
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You may know it when you start, it might pop up when outlining, or you could have no clue until you’re writing the last chapter, but every book needs an ending, and every writer needs to work out the best kind to use. Luckily for us, there are plenty of options to choose from, such …
It’s often said that no one can be a harsher critic of a writer’s work than the writer themself. Not only are we the first readers, judges, and fans of our work, but we’re also the ones that tell ourselves that it sucks. Most of the time that’s right after we’ve typed “The End” and …
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While writing might be a solitary affair, the reality is that writing with no distractions doesn’t happen as often as we’d like. Responsibilities, jobs, kids—basically life—eats into that creative time and are usually the priority for the hours in your day. And while that’s the way it should be, now and then, putting your writing …
As writers, we’ve all been there. Enthusiastic to start a project one minute, doing everything to avoid working on it the next. While you could claim distractions, work, responsibilities, and life are impeding your writing progress, sometimes, the reason you can’t get any words down is that you’ve got a stuck scene. Fixing A Stuck …
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