Writing Tips and Writerly Musings

As writers, we spend a lot of time waiting to find out if we've been rejected. But being selected has its own stressors. In this episode, I address both fears.

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I like going to panels on 'reading my own work', dreaming about the day when I'm asked to give a book reading of my own. Here are the 5 aspects of reading aloud and ways to optimize each aspect.

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While PitchWars can be instrumental and the community is active-year round, in this flashback episode, I talk about my reasons to skip participating in 2018.

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Featuring George RR Martin, here are my notes on world-building, magic systems versus science, making your work stand out to publishers and more.

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Pitchwars, an online mentorship opportunity, has been instrumental for me in building my community. Today, I share about how this came to be and the importance of making writing friends at the same s…

When creating magic -- you can start with the characters, the world, or the magic -- but if you don't make the rules internally consistent, your magic system breaks down. Here are tips on how to make…

The PitchWars mentorship competition has a lot in common with the publishing industry as a whole. Let's compare and contrast them.

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When writing, it's hard to know when you've reached that finish line. That point where it's not going to get any better and you're just rearranging chairs on the deck of a ship. Today, I'm sharing ti…

There is a writing mentorship opportunity called "#PitchWars", that lets writers with polished manuscripts who just aren't getting traction -- or who want another set of eyes before they start queryi…

When writing a fight scene, it can be easy to turn the entire fight into a series of stage directions -- but that's not going to engage your readers. Here are tips on how to start a fight, what are t…

If you're writing, you're probably going to ask someone to read your work and give you feedback, at some stage. And? The best way to get feedback you can use? Is to ask for it. Here are the 10 questi…

The first line of your novel has to do one thing and one thing only -- make your reader want to read the second sentence.

Today, I'm talking about the 3 things that can make that first line GREAT.

You can have the best protagonist in the world, but if your world isn't populated with three-dimensional secondary and background characters, your world is going to seem mighty empty.

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*When you're writing, you want to keep the reader interested -- without overwhelming them. *

*Getting the pacing right can be tricky. *

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Every writer needs an editor at some point in their process. But, getting the most out of an editor requires picking the right type of editor.

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You're a clever reader, you don't need everything spelled out for you.

Neither do your readers.

In this episode, I talk about how you can add subtext to your stories.

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When you're looking to be traditionally published, step one is to write a book.

Step two? You've gotta get an agent!

Here are 10 steps to make sure you get that second look from an agent.

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