Long Term Goals in a Short Term Society
Why should you worry about long-term goals when you have short-term goals that are more urgent? For the same reason riders on the Olympic Cross Country or show jumping courses look one or two jumps...
View Article5 Things to Do After the First Draft
You’ve spent months on it. Hours with your backside planted firmly in the seat of your chair, staring at your monitor and, hopefully, pounding the keyboard. The novel is finished. Now what do you do?...
View ArticleAn Exercise in Vision Writing
On Saturday, December 10, I published a post featuring part of Randy Ingermanson’s monthly Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine (which you can sign up for at no cost here), in which Randy talked about...
View Article5 More Things to Do After the First Draft
A few posts ago, I listed five things you could do while you’re waiting to get started on revisions for your current manuscript. You can see that post here. Since then, I’ve thought of a few other...
View ArticleMarket Trends or Personal Vision
An artist chases the market by painting whatever subject is ‘hot’ in whatever style is ‘hot’, aiming for the next big sale or top seller. A fashion maven spends hours shopping, buying the latest...
View ArticleIntroduction to Blogging For Writers
If you’ve been involved in any aspect of writing for very long and if you read anything about writing online, you’ve already learned about the importance of developing platform. You probably have also...
View Article4 Things to Consider Before You Decide to Blog
There’s a lot of talk about content, traffic, SEO, and networking these days. Everyone who works social media or who is just thinking about it is looking for the secret key that will unlock a world of...
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