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So, you want to be a writer, eh? Take a seat by the fire, grab a handful of biscuits, ignore the dragons circling overhead, and tune in to my top 10 writing tips 🙂 1) Write stories you’re passionate about: Yes, trends are important in traditional publishing, but if you force yourself to write about […]… Continue reading So you want to be a Writer? 10 Tips for the Aspiring Author: #AuthorToolboxBlogHop — The Dragonspire

⭐️ Hi guys! I hope you’re having the best day & especially that you’re enjoying your current reading.❤️ Today I return with my December post series where I wrap up a little my year in posts and talk with you about it, this time it’s the turn to talk about those new to me authors… Continue reading Favorite New-To-Me Authors || 2019 💻 — A Book. A Thought.

A while ago, I published an article with 51 similes to spark the imagination as part of my collection of posts on how to describe in writing. That not only is one of my most-visited and most-commented articles, but readers also contributed their lists of similes that are far richer than anything I’ve come up… Continue reading Descriptions Writers Need–“As dumb as…” — Today’s Author

When you’re geeky, you don’t always think like the people around you or answer questions in the usual way. A writing class I took asked us newbie writers to tell the class a little bit about ourselves. Here’s how I answered that: I am a multi-cellular, hairless, short-snouted, large-brained bipedal omnivore, evolved over millions of […]… Continue reading A Geek Answers, “Who Am I?” — Today’s Author

When you’re geeky, you don’t always think like the people around you or answer questions in the usual way. A writing class I took asked us newbie writers to tell the class a little bit about ourselves. Here’s how I answered that: I am a multi-cellular, hairless, short-snouted, large-brained bipedal omnivore, evolved over millions of […]… Continue reading A Geek Answers, “Who Am I?” — Today’s Author

I run a series over on my blog, WordDreams, where I highlight a genre for each letter of the alphabet. Here’s the next in the series: The A to Z Challenge asks bloggers to post 26 articles on a themed topic. It’s supposed to be every day except Sundays during the month of April but […]… Continue reading Genres A to Z: O is for Owner’s Manual — Today’s Author

There are a good many things Indie writers and publishers have to be grateful for. Things we seem to have in common…apart, of course, from the abject poverty of living in unheated garrets whilst suffering for our art. (Look, we have an image to keep up, right?) Whilst I wait… and wait… and wait… I […]… Continue reading 10 Things for which the Indie Author is grateful — Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo

By Paul Skenazy Writing is an invitation to humility—you realize you’re on the wrong track, you’ve lost connection with a scene, an emotion, a voice. The return on that humility is when your imagination lets you slip into someone else’s skin. The tales you come up with tell the story you are trying to tell […]… Continue reading Thirteen Thoughts On Writing — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

By D.A. Hickman Vast and unthinkable. Silent and timeless. A windswept terrain. This is grief. It’s also the Dakota prairie I grew up with. But I wasn’t fully aware of this curious pairing until I lost my son to suicide. When the final moment came, he’d already been plagued for years by treacherous life and […]… Continue reading Windswept Terrain: Finding a Way to Write About Grief — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

By Paul Skenazy Writing is an invitation to humility—you realize you’re on the wrong track, you’ve lost connection with a scene, an emotion, a voice. The return on that humility is when your imagination lets you slip into someone else’s skin. The tales you come up with tell the story you are trying to tell […]… Continue reading Thirteen Thoughts On Writing — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog