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Positive Writer: An Uplifting and Empowering Gift

This is the best writer’s site I have found all year. Bryan Hutchinson “created Positive Writer for fellow writers who are… stuck in doubt, uncertain of their abilities, and yet, have an overwhelming desire to create work that matters. The articles you’ll find on Positive Writer are all written with the purpose of encouraging, inspiring […]

Book of the Month: Characters You Can Relate To

Whether you are writing fiction, memoir, poetry, short stories, plays, screenplays or music, the ability of your work to touch others depends on how they relate to the emotional messages you are conveying. This e-book will assist you in bringing your characters to life in a way that is emotionally realistic. There are no short […]

You Want Followers, but you NEED Fans.

Originally posted on DeAnna Ross:
Facebook is changing again! Facebook is cruel to the small business / Authors! Wait. Before you pick up your pitch forks or WORSE throw up your hands and start throwing money at Facebook’s “boost” and other moneymaking gimmicks… let’s all take a deep breath and talk about what Social Media…

2015 Online #Writing #Challenges Calendar List – All Genres

Updated: October 2014  For an amazing series of lists on blogging events based on every topic, word combination or theme you can think of, visit The Daily Post. You’ll be hooked! All Year A Round of Words in 80 Days: http://aroundofwordsin80days.wordpres... There are 4 rounds of 80 days a year. Rounds start in January, April, July […]

Did I Write The Wrong Book? Creative Quandaries and Their Benefits

Creativity involves curved paths. Very rarely do we take one, clear direction and find that it follows through to a neat, expected ending. That’s fine, it’s the way our brains work. Without the hairpin bends, odd confused ruckus and excitement of discovering something we didn’t expect, we’d be bored. I finished NaNoWriMo with a 55,000 […]

25 Ways to Help Self-Published Authors

Originally posted on This College Dropout:
Courtesy of David Melchior Diaz via Flickr/PhotoPin Buy a self-published book Leave an honest review. (In fact, leave a review on more than one site!) Thank the author publicly on social media. Recommend the book to someone else. Follow them on social media. Engage with them on social media.…

Using Your Fears to Craft Stories

This video is inspirational from the point of view of being an author, and/or for personal reflection. Karen shows how we go through options in our minds and choose with bias. The true story she uses has been utilised in crafting great novels such as Moby Dick. How you handle your own fears can provide […]

Write to Combat Depression

It’s widely recognised that writing out your feelings and experiences is good for both your mental and physical health, yet I am only just beginning to see a number of resources online that encourage the use of writing and creativity as a tool in combatting depression. I know from my own experience that writing assists […]

Books and Such: Great Advice for Novelists

Books and Such is an Agency that helps authors with their careers, but you don’t have to sign with them to gain maximum benefit from their blog. It is written by multiple team members and the content is pure gold (pun intended.) The blog has excellent posts on manuscripts, dealing with agents, marketing and all […]

Make Your Darlings Suffer, It’s Essential

Novels require conflict, character growth and tension. People don’t grow without challenges and pain being present in their lives. Creating and Resolving Conflict in Fiction dissects conflict into its component parts; looks at how it works and helps you generate conflict plot-lines and themes which will add richness and realism to your work. The principles apply […]