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Font Choice and Readability

A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time on Canva design tutorials.  One of the topics was font as in matching font to message and making things interesting but readable. Imagine my surprise when my husband sent me an article he had spotted, “Sans Forgetica: The font scientists created to help you recall what […]

5 Minutes a Day: Writer’s block

No, I’m not saying that you can get beyond writer’s block in 5 minutes.  But if you spend five minutes figuring out why you have it?  Then you’ll know which of these methods to try. So far this year, I’ve written 6 contracted books.  I’ve rewritten 4 of them.  I’m about to write #7.  I’ve […]

Online Presence: Should You or Shouldn’t You

Should you take time from your writing life to have an online presence?  The short answer – yes. Understandably, your first job as a writer should be your writing.  Whether you write poetry, early readers or young adult novels, you need to write.  Most of us have to squeeze writing in between work and our […]

Occupations: The ones you feature in your writing say a lot

Recently I saw an interesting post by Becca Puglisi about character occupation.  She and Angela Ackerman have an online Occupation Thesaurus available for writers.  Each entry is an occupation and it includes an overview of what this occupation does, the training required, positive personality traits that might be associated with this characteristic, negative traits, and […]

Inktober

Push your limits creatively.  I give this advice to other people all the time so I decided it was time to take it myself.  I am taking part in Inktober. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Inktober, it is a challenge designed to encourage artists to improve their style/technique/talent and develop a habit […]

Creating an Invoice

Not too long ago, one of my writing friends contacted me.  “Help!  I have to invoice the publisher to get paid.  I don’t even know what an invoice looks like.”  More and more publishers seem to be requiring writers to invoice in order to get paid.  I do this for all of the books that […]

Middle Grade: Not a Narrow Designation

Yesterday I posted about writing age appropriate middle grade fiction.  Not only is it made difficult because what one person thinks is age appropriate is completely inappropriate in someone else’s estimation, but “middle grade” covers a really wide audience. Characters in younger middle grade books are 8 to 10 or 2nd through 4th grade.  An […]

Age Appropriate Fiction: How Much Is Too Much?

I have to admit that I almost never look at reviews of my own books, but I do read reviews of other author’s books that I enjoyed.  Today I popped over to Amazon to check out the reviews of Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale.  This is the summary from the library web site. “Hoping that if she wins […]

POV: Working with Third Person

Recently my novel suffered a POV failure. I’m writing this in third person limited.  Although the novel is in third person, everything is in the point of view of my main character.   Every now and again we get her thoughts but we don’t get anyone else’s.  We see things through her eyes, but she isn’t […]

The Thought Police: Banned Books Week

I normally write one post a year about banned book week but this year? This year it feels critical in a way that it never has before. During my son’s sophomore year in high school, he brought home a list of books and a permission slip.  They each had to read a banned book and […]