Today I wanted to discuss some marketing strategies and ideas with you guys. This post is probably going to be more geared toward writers that are looking to self-pub or have already self-published a novel or two, but I hope that no matter what publishing path you’re looking at, you’ll be able to take some of these strategies into consideration!
Themes in writing is one of the hardest things to convey well. And that, I believe, is due to one reason: themes tend to come off as preachy…
Today and I wanted to discuss the importance of knowing what genre you’re going to write in and what target audience you want to write for. A crucial mistake beginning writers make is not knowing what specific genre they’re going to write in, and an even bigger mistake is not knowing who their audience is…
For some people, the biggest struggle—aside from titling a story and actually writing the
story—is naming their characters. Admittedly, this is a difficult process, because it’s never the same…
Here are the topics we’ll be discussing in today’s post: Character Development, Keeping Character Voices Distinct, How to Manage Multiple/Differing Point of Views.
Every author has a different method they follow for their pre-writing process. There are those of us that love our detailed outlines, those of us that love to write by the seat of our pants (hence the name “Pantser”), and those of us that like to be caught in between, where maybe an outline gets written but there’s not a lot of detail so the imagination can take flight…
When coming up with the topics for this blog event, I was asked to share about my outlining methods. It’s a wonderful topic, but I’ll admit that at first I felt pretty confused. How would I go about discussing my outlining methods? Did I even have methods? And the more I thought about what goes into my outlining process, the more I realized that my outlining methods encompass more than just the outline for my story…
An Introduction to the On Writing Blog Event
A Flash Fiction piece I was inspired to write a couple weeks ago.
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 5/5 Swords
Time for me to flail about my favorite book EVER!!!
I wanted to reintroduce myself! If you’re curious as to how much of a dork I am, click the link to read the post. 😉
Title: The Selection
Genre: Dystopian
Rating: 3.75/5 Corrupt Governments
WARNING: Contains Mild Spoilers
