Roy Miller's Blog, page 29

Show, Don’t Tell

by JW Source link Show, Don’t Tell. It’s coaching, not teaching. Be specific. If you can’t paint a picture of it, it’s an abstraction. If you can paint a picture of it, it’s a specificity. Good writing is specific writing, and specific writing is good writing. Be specific. “No ideas but in things,” wrote Williams

How to Find the Conflict in a Story

by David Safford Source link One of the greatest challenges of writing better stories is knowing exactly which scenes to write. The best scenes focus on the core elements of conflict — which means before you can write amazing scenes, you have to find the conflict in a story. You may have a great storys

New Indie Book Release: The Boy in the Window (Ditter Kellen)

by Alan Kealey Source link New Indie Book Release: The Boy in the Window – Ditter Kellen Psychological Thriller (480 Pages – April 2018) The Boy in the Window is a fast-paced Psychological Crime Thriller that keeps you…

Why Great Content Alone Isn’t Enough to Build an Audience

by Sonia Simone Source link A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about creating content that earns your audience’s attention. Mark Schaefer swung by and left a comment — and he made a point that is dear to our hearts at Copyblogger. “Outstanding content is not the finish line, it’s the startings

Literary agents for Young Adult (YA) fiction

by Fiona Bradbury Source link Literary agents for Young Adult (YA) fiction

A Firm Tree Does Not Fear the Storm by Jennifer Morris

by Marta Cheng Source link Life is a series of chapters in A Firm Tree Does Not Fear the Storm, a poignant and entertaining work of women’s fiction by debut author, Jennifer Morris. On the heels of her beloved Grammy’s death, Beth feels as though her life has lost its purpose, with her daughters boths

The Most Important Writing Advice You Need Right Now

by terribleminds Source link Writing advice, as I am wont to say, is half-a-bag of nonsense. It’s a wonderful, heady, narcotic mix of survivorship bias and whisper-down-the-lane stories, a steady parade of bullshit in a long line of linked-up wagons. But it’s useful, too, especially when you can take the advice in as exactly that:s

Video of how I created one of my broken crayon drawings

by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Source link You never know what will come out of a broken crayon (#48 in series). I decided to take a video of how I created one of my broken crayon drawings, and I gave it away on Twitter – congrats to Ann Schimmoler, who won the final result (I ams

Creating Content – Your Web Clients Need It and Your Writing Can Help

by Anne Wayman Source link Creating content is often what we freelance writers do these days. When you’re asked to write content for a client’s website, or when you suggest a client needs content it helps to understand what that client is trying to achieve. Some of your clients will know exactly what outcomes theys

How I Will Stay Sane in a Shifting Freelance Climate

by diannejacob Source link A guest post by Jaime Lewis I love the writing life but I’m done gaming this shifting freelance climate. The last 10 years of my career, I’ve devoted myself to hunting down, pitching, landing and writing stories for newsprint, magazines and websites. The plan was to: Pursue a living as as