Creativity Exercise: Take Your Characters Shopping
Characters are funny people for authors. We spend so much time with them, they often become real to us. However, the process of creating them, of determining their likes, dislikes,… Read more »
Category: Writing Tips & Career Advice
Can You Afford to Be Published?
Writers ask a lot of questions on the journey to publication. “Will I ever get an agent? Should I?” “Am I finished revising?” “Who is my audience for this book… Read more »
Nanowrimo: Should You Do It?
Nanowrimo time is upon us once again. It’s the time of year when writers and wannabe writers take on the challenge to write 50,000 words in a month. While it… Read more »
Literary Busking: A Side Hustle Doubles as Marketing
Recently I was exposed to a new (to me) phenomenon. Literary busking. If you’ve never heard the term, busking is when someone performs in public, hoping that passerby will voluntarily… Read more »
Become a Happy Writer (or at Least Happier)
Last week I wrote about why writers are seemingly never happy/satisfied with their careers. (If you missed it, the TLDR is that writing as a career does not have a… Read more »