A while back Kathy Steffen and I taught a great group of writers from the Romance Writers of New Zealand what I consider to be the very first step in writing any book—nailing the Goal, Motivation, and Conflict of your main characters. (Also known as GMC: Goal...
A lot of writers hear that romance is the number one selling genre and with that in mind decide they want to write a romance novel. Let me start by saying I think that is a horrible reason to want to write a romance novel and one that is laden with possibilities for...
Blog – Short for web log. Basically a public journal, but easy to update—no need for an ftp program and others can post responses just as easily. (The) Cloud or Cloud Computing - Documents and programs available via the "cloud" aka the Internet rather than on your...
So, you are set up with a domain name, you have a place for your site to live (aka web host) and you have a pretty new design filled with...what? As a writer, what content should your site have? Let's start with the absolute MUST HAVES. First and foremost, your BOOKS!...
There are few characters more associated with Christmas than Ebenezer Scrooge. You have to wonder if when Charles Dickens created the penny-pinching misanthrope, he had any idea of the longevity Scrooge would enjoy, or that of all of Dickens' novels A Christmas Carol...
People have opinions. If you are a writer, this should come as no surprise. What may surprise you is that there is no one way to format an ebook. There are a number of ways and a number of people who will swear their way is best. I, unlike many people, like Word. I...
Every November NanoWrimo rolls around and writers everywhere look for ways to crank out the pages as fast as they can...faster than your muse may want to move. Inevitably at some point you will find your fingers slowing and the words stopping, and you will be looking...
Every November something strange happens. Thousands of writers hunker down, writing until their fingers cramp and their eyes blur. A few stagger from their homes, blinking at the now foreign sun, to meet with other writers in coffee shops and libraries where they flip...
Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain is one of those books every writer interested in creative write (aka fiction) really has to read. Unfortunately, due to the density of the prose, you really may not want to. And there I guess my book review could...
