Writers often embark on their writing journeys with great clarity about the direction they want to sail. Feeling like the captains of their writing ships, they know what topics they want to cover and the types of writing they want to do. Later, that clarity may wane, though, and their ships may drift off course. Losing your writing career direction…
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You’ve heard the stories about the most productive and prolific writers. They sit down at their desk on a schedule—five or seven days per week at the same time. Then they knock out a predictable number of pages or words every single time. No excuses. No procrastination. No distraction. To succeed as a writer, you, too, have to write consistently…
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I’m a sticker for old-school grammar rules, but times change, and so have the rules I write by. In today’s post, Beth Bauer (@JourneyofBethB), discusses several grammar rules that have changed over the years. Have you ever sat down to read a new book, and, just a few pages in, you notice the writing seems grammatically incorrect? Many old-school grammar…
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Your ebook is ready for publication, but you still have one important decision to make. How will you get it in readers’ hands. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) discusses three strategies for ebook distribution. Earlier this year, we published a summary of the benefits and advantages of only publishing an ebook. If you’ve decided that publishing an ebook is the right…
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You may call yourself a writer, but are you really a writer? Writers have the habit of writing. Do you write consistently every day or week? Writers write. Be honest. Are you a writer? Or do you like to call yourself a writer when, in fact, you write sometimes…rarely…sporadically…when you feel like it…or hardly ever? How to Become a…
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You say you are a writer, yet you don’t write. You know writers write, and you want to write (or so you say), but you rarely, if ever, produce written words. Why don’t you put fingers on the keyboard and knock out some powerful writing? That’s the million-dollar question for many, many writers. So, what’s the answer? It would be…
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You dream of becoming an author and have researched self-publishing. But you put your dream on hold when you decided becoming an indie author was too costly. In fact, most writers can afford to self-publish if they use Amazon’s print-on-demand or POD service. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) provides the basic info you need to decide if this publishing option is…
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