by Kay Vandette You don’t have to be a graphic design artist to take advantage of the online program Canva. Even if you don’t have a drop of artistic talent, if you’re a freelance writer trying to do any sort of blogging or building a social media platform, Canva is your secret weapon with hundreds of resources… Read More Three Ways Canva Can Help with Your Writing Business
by Hope Ann There is no one secret to producing a good book. Hard work, patience, more hard work, dogged determination, and did I mention hard work? Yet it is so worth it. And, the more I write, the more I value one particular asset every writer should have. Beta readers! Beta readers are… Read More How to Work With Beta Readers
by Doug Lewars According to Forbes there are between 600 thousand and a million books published each year and roughly half are self-published. The average number of sales per volume is less than 250. That’s not encouraging. Of course I have no idea where Forbes came up with these numbers. Still, they tend to… Read More Here’s the Reality Check For Writers
by Kelsie Engen You’re standing on one mountain summit, and there are fifty miles between the next mountaintop to which you’re expected to jump. Any step you take, any direction, and you’re going to go crashing to the ground, lucky to escape with your life. There will be bruises, broken bones, broken pride, despair,… Read More 3 Tips From My Failure As an Author
From Blanche Dubois to Ebenezer Scrooge, literature has never failed to produce characters that resonate with millions of readers from across the globe. But where did they come from?… Read More Creating that “Killer” Character
by Lynne Stringer You may not know it but there are rules for writing a modern novel. Now, every good rule needs to be broken at some point but is it a good idea to say that all rules should be ignored because writing is a creative exercise? I don’t think so but I… Read More The First Rule for Writing a Modern Novel
