Note to Reader: Since this post was written, I have switched from Blogger to WordPress for my blog and website. Lessons From Bloopers If you’ve taken the steps in Starting Up A Blog, Part I and you’re willing to do a little experimenting, you are now ready to post your first blog. Before we begin, though, I suggest […]
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Messy, Slick Roads / Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
A Writer of Fiction Tries Poetry Two questions to ponder. How often do you step out of your comfort zone, and what happens when you do? In a previous post, Growing As A Writer, I mentioned some of the things you can do to “grow as a writer” while revising your fiction for submission, such as taking […]
Manuscript Makeover
No matter how advanced you are as a writer, it never hurts to take one last look at your manuscript before sending it off to an agent or editor. And Manuscript Makeover, by Elizabeth Lyon, is just the book to help you do it. Lyon spent the last twenty years teaching writing and mentoring writers in classes, critique groups, […]
Setting Up A Blog, Part I
Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that setting up a blog was easy? Until I read Blogging for Dummies, I thought I needed to consult an expert to get me started or, at the very least, master complicated technological skills that I didn’t have the patience or inclination to learn. Guess it was a case of, “You never asked.” If the […]
Lost on the Internet
Sometimes I prefer educating myself as a writer using books rather than the Internet, because with books I stay on track and with the Internet I get sidetracked. One link leads to two others and then these lead to another five, until hours later I’ve forgotten my original purpose or how to get back to […]
Books on Craft for the Intermediate Fiction Writer
If you’re an intermediate fiction writer and are ready to write a novel then Break Into Fiction will put you on the right path. National workshop speakers, Mary Buckham and Dianna Love, point out that there’s a logical progression of steps to take. “Although there is no formula for writing a book,” they say, “the instructions and templates […]
