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How to Make the Most of Your Writing Time
By Leslie J.Wyatt
Posted 12/16/2024
Assuming you’ve been able to carve out a dedicated writing time from your allotted twenty-four hours and figured out where you’ll do that writing, congratulations! Those crucial pieces of the overall picture are essential to writing success. With your when and your where now in place, it’s time to address some aspects of how to make the most of that precious window of creativity.
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Five Things Authors Get Wrong About Horses, and How You Can Get Them Right
By Lizzie Jenks
Posted 1/15/2025
London, 1817. The full moon still shone bright over the city as he entered the stable. The stable lads were all asleep, so he pulled his stallion out of its stall, buckled on its harness, and then he hitched up the coach and set out into the darkness.
Wait. What?
This would never have happened, and most of your readers know it. They might not know why, but they feel it in their bones, and that yanks them out of the story with a painful thunk.
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How to Speak so Strangers Will Buy: Hand-Selling Your Book at Live Events
By Adrienne deWolfe
Posted 12/15/2025
Selling sucks. We all know it; we all hate to do it.
If you’re an Introvert, nothing is scarier than the idea of facing your Reading Public at a live event. Extroverts feel the same way. We’re just good at pretending.
As a Scaredy Cat, who dreaded rejection so much that it made me ill, I invented a motivational mantra. Perhaps it will help you:
“Fear of selling is the insidious Evil that has kept millions of writers in the poorhouse for hundreds of years.”
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Thinking Outside the Bookstore
By Mindy Hardwick
Posted 1/15/2025
What is your definition of writing success? When I first began writing, I attended a conference workshop on defining success. In my mind, I saw myself at a large bookstore, the seats packed as I read from my latest book. Afterward, there would be a line of people waiting for my signature. I’d worked in bookstores throughout college and into my early twenties and this was what a successful author looked like to me.
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Research as the Backbone of Fiction
By Belle Calhoune
Posted 1/15/2025
Research has been the backbone of many fiction novels, including my own. As writers, we are blessed to be living in an age when information is literally at our finger tips. As a child who grew up across the street from a public library, I recall the rudimentary ways we had to conduct research for school papers and presentations. It revolved around card catalogues and the Dewey decimal system. For the life of me, I can’t imagine currently conducting novel research in that manner. From what I remember, it was extremely time consuming and without the ROI of modern day research.
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