Scrivener: NaNoWriMo Power Tool
I came to Scrivener the way I come to a lot of things: Oh. Fun. Want. When I wandered into the tea shop to meet my Novel Incubator mentee, Kelly Robertson, she had her laptop open and I saw a…
Category: Resources for Writers
Friday Feast: Shed Your Leaves, Apples, Words, Sentence Diagrams and More
Ah, mid-October. Time of endless apple-picking social media posts, picked over apple pies in workplace kitchens, apple pies and apple butters and assorted apples in jars that you don’t know what to do with so you give them away as…
Happy Indie Story, Part Six: What’s Next?
It’s the question President Jed Bartlet always asks after every crisis gets resolved on The West Wing. And it’s the question you’ll be asked in nearly every interview and conversation you’ll have while promoting your current book. Your agent will…
Friday Feast: First Lines, Last Lines, Whole Novels in One Line and Grammar Rules
With your first sentence, you want to give your readers a good taste of what’s to come in your novel. With the last, a satisfying finish that reflects the whole. Sometimes, it works. Other times, not so much. This week, we…
Friday Feast: Gone Girls, Black Girls, Golden Girls and Quitting
The film adaptation of Gone Girl is in theaters. Hermione Granger (aka Emma Watson) spoke to the U.N. about feminism. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay movie trailers have us jazzed for November. So… It’s a theme week, folks.
Friday Feast: Tough Love, Book Tours, Amazon and Banned Books
We know a lot of you writers hate the whole social media thing. Some days, we feel the same way. But, here’s the deal: It’s good for you. Or you dread the book tour idea, what with the probability of…