The great thing about blogging is that you can’t hear my maniacal laughter. Oh, I’ll give you ten steps all right. Just don’t think that those ten steps will be easy or even consecutive. Think of it more as a twisted game of Chutes and Ladders. You go up a few steps, slide back down … Continue reading 10 Steps to Finishing a Novel
I have a new editing website! Check it out here. Getting your Novel Ready for Publication So you’ve written a complete manuscript. Congratulations! Assuming you’ve already had at least one Beta reader give you feedback, and you’ve gone through a couple rounds of edits yourself, it’s probably time to hire a freelance editor. But where … Continue reading Editing Services
To the recent influx of new followers: Salutations! In your honor, I thought I’d welcome you with a post on the most common writing advice I hear, and whether or not you should actually listen to it. I hope you enjoy your stay at my little corner of the blogoverse. Contents: Kill your darlings Show, don’t tell Write … Continue reading 7 Writing Maxims and What to Do with Them
NaNoWriMo begins in just 17 days. Not sure of what NaNoWriMo is? Well, it stands for “National Novel Writing Month.” But NaNoWriMo is more than just the title for November…it’s also an event. Hundreds of thousands of writers sign up at NaNoWriMo.org to write a novel in just 30 days. Well, write 50,000 words of a novel. … Continue reading Motivation for NaNoWriMo
Lara Willard 