Did you know there are rules of etiquette on Facebook? Facebook is my happy place, and I like to try and make Facebook a positive environment when possible. So, when an online acquaintance posted a link to her own blog on my timeline (personal wall) I left her a short…
Category: Editing And Marketing Fiction
How To Write For Newspapers
How many books does it take to make a NYTimes bestseller? Some float the number (there are a tonne of variables) that you need 100,000 books sold to make it on that list. That’s a lot of books. Reader’s Digest had a monthly circulation of over 500,000 in Canada and…
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You Want To Be A Writer? Write!
People often ask me how did I get to where I am now with my writing. Did I go to school? “I want to do what you do, but I don’t have your talent.” The prevailing idea seems to be you’ve either got talent or you don’t, those are the…
Why Writers Should Be Wrecked with Jeff Goins
This summer I entered an online book tour contest to host the author of Wrecked on my blog…and I Won! I don’t win anything very often so this is a big deal for me. I tend to the be the 1 in 10,000 in a bad way usually. I follow…
A Study of Proactive Characters
There’s a rule that your main POV character must move from reactive to proactive. Some rules are made to be broken. This week in the Candid Writer. What is a proactive character? Proactive characters take action into their own hands. The proactive character doesn’t wait for others to create a…
The Details Make The Story
Description is my Achilles heel. My writing tends to be so sparse it’s practically naked, and to make up for that lack I’ve done some pretty embarrassing things in the pursuit of details. It’s fun to go back to my earliest manuscripts and see how much my writing’s improved. And…