Don’t trust spellcheck, a junior high-aged editor

So you’ve got your story typed in manuscript form and are about to send it out. You decide to do one more spell check before printing the final copy. Good idea, right?Wrong.If you don’t feel c…

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Five Great Quotes about ‘Write What You Know’

“If you don’t know it, don’t write it.” – Darrell Schweitzer“It’s better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.” – L. P. Hartley“And as to experience – well, t…

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5 Great Quotations about Growing as a Writer

“Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always…

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Let your characters write their story. They actually know what you want to say.

Novelist Truman Capote once quipped, “You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.”Sometimes when writing, you’ll feel as if your characters are directing and controlling their own fa…

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Indie authors: Murky biz advice, gray legal issues

A variety of potential problems can create problems for indie authors starting their own business. Oftentimes, this arrives as murky business advice and gray legal areas. Here are some answers to c…

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Quick Tip: Don’t smother writing with your red pen

Sometimes writers sabotage their own stories by ensuring every sentence is grammatically correct, as if they were turning it in to their middle school English teacher. Read through many of the…

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Five Great Quotations about Why We Write

“The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it.” – William Saroyan“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.” – Octavia E. Butler“The only end o…

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Stories drive a civilization to its heights

Stories are all around us; they mark the undercurrent that drives the ocean of civilization – always present, often just under the surface, always pulling you under into their flow when you least e…

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How to Make Your Press Release Newsworthy

Some mainstream media will ignore your release because they deem it as less news than an advertisement for your product. Indeed, an announcement that your book will be released or that it has been …

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