Crafting Characters Readers Will Love Part 1 by Jean Hall
According to Elaine Marie Alphin (Creating Characters Kids Will Love p. 2) “Kids read because a magical closeness springs…
March 21, 2018According to Elaine Marie Alphin (Creating Characters Kids Will Love p. 2) “Kids read because a magical closeness springs…
March 21, 2018I had grand aspirations for this month’s post, involving a poll, some original photography and maybe even a snappy…
March 15, 2018When the slick full-color magazines arrive in your home, many writers would like to write for those magazines and…
March 13, 2018Marketing isn’t exactly an author’s favorite job. After all, aren’t writers supposed to keep producing books and rely on…
March 9, 2018Just how far back into your past can you reach to find new ideas for writing? Family history (genealogy)…
March 8, 2018Success. For writers this word can mean different things. One author may feel success has been achieved once their…
March 8, 2018I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and I have always had a theory about families and entertainment…
March 7, 2018It is only a novel . . . or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers…
March 3, 2018Global digital marketing is a $209-billion-dollar-a-year industry ruled by five titans – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, and Baidu. Any…
March 1, 2018If you read my previous article, I hopefully convinced you to try songwriting. There are a few basics to…
March 1, 2018All roads to the finding an agent and the dream of publishing led through the Conference. I’d planned, scraped…
February 24, 2018Our romantic heroine, Tovah, is about to meet her match. She’s a Jewish rabbi who fears rejection because of…
February 24, 2018With my cursor at Chapter 1 in my WWII historical fiction novel, I hit Ctrl+Enter and sighed. Beginning a book…
February 22, 2018Great writing is great writing! Right? Yes, but writing for children does have challenges that are different from…
February 21, 2018Please stop using pronouns wrong! Between you and I, I’m sick of people using the wrong pronoun. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong!…
February 19, 2018You never would have thought of such a thing on your own. It had to be God. He gave…
February 19, 2018One of the first writing rules I learned in journalism school is that you have to know your audience. …
February 15, 2018I’m sane. I don’t even have a tin-foil hat. I rarely can even find foil when I need it…
February 14, 2018Magazine editors are experts in their publication. I know this fact because I’ve been a magazine editor a couple…
February 13, 2018February is the month that has the honor of hosting Valentine’s Day, also called Feast of Saint Valentine, an…
February 12, 2018When you tell others that you are a writer, one image appears in their mind: you crowded over a…
February 11, 2018For many, the new year often comes with aspirations of drafting a brand-new novel. Each new idea creates the…
February 7, 2018A new year is normally a time of reflection, of goal-setting, of looking forward to possibilities. That’s normally the…
February 7, 2018Marathon runners and novelists share one thing in common. They both have to deal with “hitting the wall.” Although…
February 5, 2018“… a hermitage, which is about an acre of ground—an island, planted with all variety of trees, shrubs and…
February 3, 2018