#NaNoWriMo Rescue 1 #am...

By now, day 21, you should be about 75% of the way through your story. If you’re at about 35,000 words you’re on target to finish on time. If you’re not, let’s take a look at what might help. If you’re just not finding time to write, check out the last post on ways to get more words in....

#NaNoWriMo Story Plan f...

It’s been a rough busy start this month while I was finishing up edits for upcoming releases, but I have finished my Story Planning Worksheet for my own NaNo novel. According to the poll, a lot of people were interested to see how I fill in the sheet to build characters and how...

Authors Behaving Badly

I often get new authors asking for advice about how to promo their books. I’ve even been asked by a publisher to write on the subject. I’m certainly not an expert about what works, but I can absolutely tell you some things that do not work. Some can even give readers a very...

Lessons: how helpful?

I’d like to see if I’m on the right track with the kind of information that people want to see. Let me know what you think of the lessons I’ve posted so far. [poll id=”15″] [poll id=”16″] Please share...

Lessons Learned #2B: Ad...

To follow up on the lesson I posted yesterday, here’s a tip someone told me about how to keep POV from shifting within a scene. Many writers don’t even seem to realize they are doing it and this will help. Take the role of the POV character and write in first person. This...