I had an epiphany the other day. I think I finally figured out what kind of writer I am. Do you ever have difficulty describing what kind of books you write? I find it extremely hard to put a finger on, but “what I write” is a pretty important piece of information to […]
Category: Writing
PUBLISHING A FREE EBOOK—MY EXPERIENCE AFTER THREE WEEKS
[EDIT: This blog post mentions a site called Pronoun, which has since gone down. Check out >>this later post on Pronoun<<.] I’m a relatively fresh self-published author; my debut novel has been out for less than a year. Not many people know who I am or what I write. I’m looking for ways to […]
MY TROUBLES WITH PICKING A BOOK TITLE
I’m terrible with titles. I can come up with a story easily enough, but I can never think of what to call it. The WIPs on my hard drive have names like The Italian Holiday, The Free State, Berlin Underground… Sounds great, if I was writing travel guides. But I write steamy, fast-paced romances about […]
BETA READERS – WHERE HOW WHY
My WIP is currently in the hands of some new betas, so I wanted to take a moment to talk about where to find beta readers and why they are awesome. WHY USE BETA READERS Writers tend to turn blind to their own text. This is nothing to be ashamed of; it’s […]
3 TIPS TO MAKE EDITING EASIER
I used to think that writing was 90% first draft and 10% editing—after the grueling experience of writing my first book, I now know it’s rather the other way around. Editing is still prone to give me a headache, a self-pitying crying fit, and make me binge-eat all the licorice in the household, but it’s […]
WHAT ARE YOUR WRITING PHASES?
I have this nifty plugin on my site called MyBookProgress. Basically it’s just a progress bar you see there on the right, but it lets me customize my own writing phases. It’s not just about hitting a certain word count and off you go – at least in my system reaching the goal length has […]