Confessions of a New Author: I Don’t Know What I’m Doing

This is the second post in the Confessions of a New Author series. This series chronicles my adventures of becoming a self-published author, from the very moment I woke up and decided to be an author to when I finally published my debut novel and beyond.

So you’ve decided you want to be an author. Now what?

Before you take your pen to paper (or your fingertips to the keyboard), you might want to do a little bit of planning. How much planning? That is entirely up to you. Some authors wing it:...