Since I sit and write all day, I sometimes have to kill time by taking frequent breaks for a funny tv show, a comedy movie or even a funny website. I’m not always looking for funny stuff during my breaks, sometimes I’m tweeting and sometimes I’m looking for inspiration or researching something on a plot [...]
Do you outline your novel? How much outlining do you do? Do you use a program? Notecards? Pieces of torn paper or napkins? In my normal daily writing, I tend to be a planner, plotting, outlining, note cards and post it’s. I used yWriter up until recently when I have been messing around with Scrivener [...]
Desktop calendars and wallpapers, are a hot item each year for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). They are already being made and spread around like wildfire with the new dates and goals on a November 2011 calendar. Here are a few to choose from. Julia Woodrow - She has 3 different backgrounds up so far, [...]
I can hardly believe it is October. I am trying to wrap my head around the fact that almost all of 2011 has passed us by, and that my favorite month of the year is coming up lightening fast. Okay, so November isn’t actually my favorite month of the year, but it is for writing [...]
I am so honored to have award winning author, Melissa Foster guest posting on my blog today. I’ve admired Melissa for a long time, and I’m so blessed to call her friend. Her newest release Come Back To Me, is so beautifully written and such an amazing story of love, hope, courage and strength. It [...]
In the middle of writing a chapter and something happens unexpected? Did a character say or do something you didn’t see coming? Perhaps it was something that made you realize he or she is not who you thought they were. Are you looking to get to know each of your characters better? For fun, try [...]
Hey ladies and gents! Please welcome Liz Borino, debut author of Expectations and its sequel, What Money Can’t Buy published by Lazy Day Publishing to All About Writing. She stopped in to talk about dialogue, and making it sound more natural in your writing. Take it away, Liz. Writing Natural Dialogue by Liz Borino In my day [...]
Face it, negativity surrounds us whether we want it to or not. It’s part of life. Years ago, I took great measures to cut out as much negativity from my life as I could – which basically means I don’t do drama, I avoid it all costs and rather than seeing that proverbial glass as [...]
Now before any of you tell me that I’m so clever and an awesome storyteller (because I am, you know) – I did not write this. I wish I had, but I did not. Maybe I’m not that clever, afterall. I got this forwarded to me, and normally I delete everything but this was so [...]
There has always been a camaraderie in networking with other authors and writers. I’ve been around a long time now, and it’s just common knowledge that we can all learn from each other. We’re all in this together, we’re all aiming for the same goal, and there is plenty of room for all of us. Right? That’s what [...]
There has always been a camaraderie in networking with other authors and writers. I’ve been around a long time now, and it’s just common knowledge that we can all learn from each other. We’re all in this together, we’re all aiming for the same goal, and there is plenty of room for all of us. Right? That’s what [...]
Do you outline your novel? How much outlining do you do? Do you use a program? Notecards? Pieces of torn paper or napkins? In my normal daily writing, I tend to be a planner, plotting, outlining, note cards and post it’s. I used yWriter up until recently when I have been messing around with Scrivener [...]
I spent the entire summer wishing it was Fall – the heat, the humidity, being locked indoors because you could barely breathe in the stifling heat. Now that Fall is rapidly approaching and the lazy, carefree days of summer are over, I sort of wish school vacations took place now, and not during those hot, [...]
