To Be Or Not To Be? Maybe Not! [Reblog] – Audrey Driscoll

I came across a post recently about 'crutch' words - words that we sometimes lean on when perhaps others would be better, or better yet, the sentence that they're in needs revising. Typically, I lost track of that post, but Today I came across a very similar post from Audrey Driscoll, talking about one such …

5 Newbie Mistakes that Will KILL a Perfectly Good Story – Reblog (Kirsten Lamb)

I came across a blog post last week that was a reblog of a reblog. My first thought was 'that's got to be a good article, so I skipped over to the originator's site and had a read and discovered the post you see beneath, from author Kirsten Lamb. For me, the magic word was …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors – Smartbribe

How To grow Your Email List With Smartbribe This is a special bonus add on to my 4 part series on Creating a free email list. Special because this is technically part 5 of 4. You can read the other parts in this series here: Creating an Email listAdding names to your email listHow to …

Road To A [Horror] Comic: Week 8-9

I don't feel I've been as productive this week as I could have been. A number of things have cropped up in my personal life which have meant writing and drawing have taken a back seat this week, but never fear! I have made some progress in my drawing, and I'm achingly close to starting …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors #4

How to Attract People to Your Email List #2 This is part 2 of 'How To Attract People Your Email List'. You can find all the parts of this series here: Creating an Email listAdding names to your email listhow to attract people to your list #1How to attract people to your list #2 (this …

15 Things I Learned After Reading 100 Query Letters – A Writer’s Path

  Query letters are something I have found perplexing. Finding these tips over on A Writer's Path should help... by Katie McCoach   A few weeks ago was the submission review period for the annual RevPit contest. During this review period, each editor has one week to review submissions from authors in order to make …

How to Find Your Novel’s Path — A Writer’s Path

I'm finding myself getting lost going through the second draft of my novel. I've found a kindred spirit in Kelsie Engen over on A Writer's Path, who has some great tips for getting un-lost (can that be a word?)... by Kelsie Engen All too often, I find myself lost in my writing. No, I don’t …

The Pain and The Pleasure (And A Warning)

So today has not been a good day. Well, it started off badly, then finished strongly. A couple of weeks back I wrote about writing a Choose Your Own Adventure story. I started to use this software as a means to get some example for my blog posts, but in doing so, I found that …

How To Write a Choose Your Own Adventure Story

I wrote last week about writing a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) story, and i talked about some of the different options that exist FREE online to help you to organise and write your own. If you've ever thought about writing one and wondered how you be able to manage all the different options and …

Diary of an Author With Multiple Sclerosis – March 2019

March is over, and time for a recap on what has happened in the last four weeks, both with my writing, but also with my health. If you're here for the writing updates and info on what I've learned, that bit comes first, as it should. I can't lie, MS is a huge part of …