Heather Webb describes the reasons that changing up your writing process and rituals can bring new creativity. With each book, there were pieces of my process that didn’t change, regardless of the structure. I had to discover who my characters were by exploring their backstory. I needed to know where the story began—that inciting incident—and…
Bookbub gives us a gigantic list of books to read for the summer. Here is a sampling. For the full list, with descriptions and categorization, click here to view full article at media.bookbub.com 16th Seduction by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane Testimony by Scott…
Most of the authors we work with here at Sulis International use either Ulysses App or Scrivener for their writing. Here is a helpful article about setting Scrivener up to make it easier to compile (export) to final forms for submission. Some excerpts: A common anxiety I’ve noticed among my Scrivener students and training clients…
From Just Write a Book, a nice guide to editing from the macro and micro perspective. Editing your fiction helps you to write novels and serials which sell. You want your readers to love your stories, so that they buy your next ebook, and the next. Think of editing as polishing a diamond. In its…
From an excellent article over at Booklaunch, here are some excerpts from an interview with Joe Bunting at The Write Practice. Click here to view full article at booklaunch.com How do you become a productive writer, the kind who not only actually finishes writing their book, but continues to put out books, year after year?…
“Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody,” said Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet more than a century ago. “There is only one way. Go into yourself.” Rilke, of course, was right – nobody but yourself can help. In the end it all comes down to the strike of the word…
The best books in the world will not sell if no one knows about them; the best essay, paper, or blog posts won’t be read if no one sees a link to it. We hope you are doing some promotion of your work, whatever it may be: on your website, through a FaceBook page, on…
From LifeHacker comes this nice chart of the basics of story structure. Of course, it’s up to you to make the content compelling, unique, and moving. There’s no shortcut to writing a great story. However, there are guidelines that can help get you started if you’ve never done it before. This chart compiles several different…
We are a little late to the party, since CampNaNoWriMo just ended on April 30. But this article’s advice is useful for any writing project. Do some planning Set intermediate goals Write Every Day Try Word Sprints Write in Different Places Curb Distractions Always Carry a Notepad Get Away and Think When You Have No…
If you are a reader, and you love bookstores, BookRiot has a blog post for you. This post lists the best bookstores in all fifty states in the U.S. (plus the District of Columbia). The list is based on a number of criteria as evaluated by BookRiot subscribers. How knowledgeable are the booksellers? What’s the selection…