Barbara G. Tarn's Blog, page 16
March 13, 2022
Sunday Surprise
If you want to be a writer, then the first thing you need to do is define yourself as a writer. Then you give it your best effort. When you write a manuscript, you have to think of it as an investment. You create an “intellectual property,” one that may or may not sell. Sometimes […]
March 8, 2022
Wednesday Weekly Roundup
Last day to get the Cattitude bundle! Grab it now before it’s gone! You don’t want to miss all those cat stories, do you? Get it NOW! Only a few hours left! 🙂 On Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter and why it’s good for us fiction writers. I am going to launch another Kickstarter this year, but […]
March 1, 2022
Wednesday Weekly Roundup
So, between videos about Ukraine and Russia, funny pets and Karens put in their place, I stumbled upong a Zoomer explaining TikTok algorithms and how the social media works… I guess I won’t get anywhere with my account (especially since they keep silencing my videos if I put the soundtrack from my phone), but I’ll […]
February 22, 2022
Wednesday Weekly Roundup
I hope you checked out the Cattatute bundle… Where else can you find so many cat stories all in one place? Read more about the 10 books in the bundle here, and make sure to click on each cover for a synopsis, reviews and preview of each book! 🙂 If you like podcasts, the D2D/Smashwords […]
February 15, 2022
Wednesday Weekly Roundup
And the big announcement this week is… another storybundle! Cattatude is now live and it includes Otherside, my novella of cats and women. Find more info here. If you haven’t read Otherside yet, go grab it for less than 1$ along with those other awesome books! Because the next big announcement is… the Otherside Books! […]
February 13, 2022
Sunday Surprise
Thus, there is no right or wrong way. Rather, it’s about doing things your way. Until you experience this “moment,” you’ll continue attempting the correct or best way to do things. You’ll continue copying other people’s work. But if you persist, you’ll become disillusioned to those who were once your idols. They are people just […]
February 8, 2022
Wednesday Weekly Roundup
Last week I got my 10K done, both in a new story (it’s probably the start of a novel, though, so I’m setting it aside for now) and in tinkering with the previous project. This week I’m moving on to another SFF subgenre, possibly to submit to magazines and anthologies, possibly because I want to […]
February 2, 2022
Wednesday Weekly Roundup
Ops! I’m late, but emergency closing of the office on Monday made me skip a day, so, it’s Wednesday already and no post is scheduled! 🙄 This is therefore improvised on the phone, so I’m keeping it short. Last week I wrote only 7K, bur it’s expected between projects. At the moment I’m writing shorts, […]
January 25, 2022
Wednesday Weekly Roundup
Last week was rather productive despite expectations. I was supposed to edit the project, but got “distracted” by a story with a deadline, so I had to interrupt the editing to write a damn Holiday Story (I hate the Holidays). With time travel (I love time travel! :D). And since I was left with only […]
January 23, 2022
Sunday Surprise
The idea is valuable as a stepping stone. It’s useful as a springboard. Sometimes a really interesting idea is the first strong rung in the ladder, sure. But that is all that it is. It’s a hook. It’s a twist. It’s a notion. It is not the backbone of the work. It is not the blood […]
