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Here’s 2025 all fresh and shiny, full of hope and all the little calendar boxes ready to fill! While…
March 6, 2025Here’s 2025 all fresh and shiny, full of hope and all the little calendar boxes ready to fill! While…
March 6, 2025The Name Game with Cathy Rueter Cathy is a journalist and author. She joins Writers Chat to explain why…
February 28, 2025Recently I had a talk with a young brain cancer survivor I have mentored and encouraged for years. He…
February 27, 2025Romance readers’ expectations: Finding the best setbacks and obstacles for my couple to overcome is one of my greatest…
February 23, 2025Do you have difficulty coming up with a title for your article or story? This is sure to be…
February 22, 2025While many might try to dissuade you from embarking on a journey to becoming an author, sticking with it…
February 13, 2025Mentor books are those an author studies before they do any writing. For a retreat last week, I had…
February 8, 2025Late in 2024, I became extremely unsatisfied with my writing vocation. After spending six years focusing on sales, conversions…
January 30, 2025Has this happened to you? You are introduced to someone new as a children’s author. Response: “I have an…
April 8, 2024When I began learning how to write a novel, the word outline brought to mind dreaded high school assignments.…
June 24, 2023You hear it at every writers’ conference—Platform Is Important! Long before you have a book published, you need to…
August 24, 2022So many things can hinder our writing. Our lives are filled with distractions and competing commitments, while our inner…
April 24, 2022I’m excited to share my new release, Fountains and Secrets, with my Almost an Author family, along with a…
January 24, 2022I’ve been blogging for over seven years and in that time I’ve learned a lot about how to be…
December 24, 2021Board books have extra thick coated pages that small hands can turn and chewing babies can sink their teeth…
December 8, 2021Writers are frequently encouraged to identify their target audience. However, we don’t always look at a target audience through…
November 24, 2021“You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the…
October 21, 2021Good plot twists can make or break our story. While twists are important to all fiction writing, they are…
October 17, 2021Freelance writing isn’t always the easiest way to make a living. Moving from project to project demands concentration, adaptability,…
October 9, 2021Does it seem to take FOREVER to get a brilliant (they all are!) book published for kids? Even as…
September 8, 2021Sometimes when I tell people I write middle grade, they nod knowingly and say “Cool. Like a chapter book,…
August 16, 2021We’re all familiar with phrases that warn us of danger lurking ahead. Look before you leap. You can’t be…
August 10, 2021As much fun building characters in a fiction story is, the process is equally challenging. Trying to create memorable…
July 26, 2021As I was editing my latest WIP, I ran across several instances where my plot followed one character on…
July 23, 2021“Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be…
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