Proofreading, Editing, Formatting, Indexing Do you need an editor? While most writers get pretty good at editing (if we say so ourselves), it is always better to have a third party edit your work. Whether it is us or someone else, make sure you get someone with experience editing professionally! Our editors have over 25 years of…
Here are some excellent articles from around the web to hone your writing skills. This month’s posts focus on time management for writers and what to write about. setting realistic writing goals (thewritersaurus). As the title states, this article discusses how to set realistic writing goals. Importantly, the author notes that ‘word count’ goals will (and…
How Long Does It Take to Write a Novel? (Anne Charnock for Writers Digest). Of course, the real answer is “it depends.” On the writer, schedule, desire, research needed, and many more options. In this post, Anne compares the writing of her second novel, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind as compared with her first novel, A Calculated…
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…
This article, by Bellow Beth Cooper, si based on some reading she has done about writer routines and advice. She has compiled six of the most common in this post: The best ways to get over the “blank page hurdle” Discard clichés: How to stop writing like “you’re meant to write” Don’t make it sound…
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The positives of an indie author are control, freedom, and high royalties. The negatives, however, are well-known—book promotion being one of the more important. However, there are resources—both free and paid—that will do advertising for you. How well they work depends on a lot of factors (a topic for another post). This is a list of top free and paid options.
There are rules to writing well. They are not hard-and-fast rules—all the masters break them. But they break them at times and in ways that enhance the writing. Following all the rules will make your writing better. Knowing when and how to break them will make your writing great. But you can’t know when and…
What better way to push yourself as a write this new year than to enter your work in a writing contest?
We at Sulis wish you a wonderful 2016. Thank you to all of our authors, customers, and readers. Our writers and editors will be enjoying the next two weeks with family and friends. We’ll return in 2016 with more book reviews, posts to encourage and help writers, and new publications. We will still be answering requests and…