Word Magic
Are you freelance blogging? Perhaps you want to develop your small business blog. Either way, when you’re blogging, you need to create, even if you’re feeling uninspired. Your mood comes through in your creations, so reigniting your inspiration is essential. Firstly, relax. Although you feel like procrastinating, or running away, inspiration is lurking in your archives. You were inspired once: … Read more
Do you enjoy writing prompts? They make excellent warmups, allowing your mind to drift easily into a “writing” state—you’re busily writing your current project before your resistance and inner editor try to stop you. Writing prompts: conquer resistance in five minutes Resistance can be tricky, so avoid looking for reasons: … (resistance) can also dress itself up in fancy clothes: … Read more
Have you ever wished that you could write faster? If you’re a fiction author, chances are that you have. Last year, one of my writing students begged me for some productivity tricks. She said: “I ended the first book in my series with a lot of loose threads—I though it would make writing the next book easier. But it hasn’t. … Read more
Here’s my writing tip of the week: keep writing until you succeed. Failure is only feedback—and failure is the only way you’ll succeed. You can’t avoid failure, so embrace it. I’m offering this insight to you because I’ve had a week of writers telling me that whatever they’re doing (self-publishing, content marketing, blogging etc) “isn’t working.” One self-publishing author said: … Read more
We looked at using public domain materials in Plotting Fiction: 3 Tips To Help You To Plot Like Shakespeare: As a rule of thumb, anything published before 1923 is now in the public domain, unless the author’s estate has taken steps to secure copyright. I’ve been rereading Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, and wondered why variations of this novel … Read more