The big lesson that I learned from Janet Conner’s sixth Plug In class, How to Build Your Author Platform, is:Writers need vibrant, creative partnerships. I’m sure you’ve heard before that an author platform is mandatory to your publishing career. You’ve also heard that in building a platform you need to blog, social network, and use video sites. In […]
Book Talk
The Spaces In Between Us
A friend, recently introduced me to award winning singer/songwriters Jan Garett and JD Martin because she thought their song, The Spaces In Between Us, weaved perfectly with the theme of my blog, Enter the Between. When I heard the song for myself, I said, “Yes. Yes. Yes.” For over a year, I’ve been trying to articulate the spirit […]
Title Tips
Here’s guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles with some: Title Tips Whether or not you write an article, a book, or a memoir, they will all need a title. Some titles are so important they become famous. The novel Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell is a name not only known in Europe but the United […]
Ideas for Plotting A Novel
Today Dorothy Ann Skarles writes about how she comes up with ideas for plotting her novels. She then shares the bare bones of a story called Silent Deceptions that’s fermenting in her head. Welcome Dorothy. Plotting a Novel When I first start plotting a novel, I only write an idea for a beginning and then think of two or three endings that might […]
Guides / Guidance to the Hidden Dimension of Life
The Hidden Dimension Deepak Chopra calls it The Hidden Dimension of Life. James Redfield calls it The Responsive Universe. Robert Butler calls it The White Hot Center of The Unconscious. Kabir Helminski calls it the Threshold Between Two Worlds. Janet Conner calls it The Intersection. It’s the dimension outside of the normal five senses where your earthly and […]
Silent Deceptions / Idea for a Novel
Today, guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles shares an idea that is fermenting in her mind about a suspense novel she is thinking about writing. Welcome Dorothy. Idea for a Novel My publisher, Twilight Times Books, has a book out titled, How I Wrote My First Book, told by 20 authors, including me, about what went into writing their […]