This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. Most aspiring authors believe their ideas are unique and readers absolutely need to read their books. Like these writers, you probably feel convinced your book idea is new, fresh, timely, different, and essential. You know readers must…
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Muddy Sports, Week #4 Welcome to week #4 in our month-long celebration of mud. We have talked about mud and kids, cool mud people, and my favorite, mud and food. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to muddy sports. Your job is to research, write about, and describe five extreme sports. Creative Idea Gal’s Thoughts Mud sports are another one of…
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This post is part of the “I Know I Can” WNFIN 10-Month Training. Today is a great day to talk about the Mississippi mud cake, or do I mean the Mississippi mud pie or perhaps I should call it the Muddy Mississippi cake? Better yet, let me add the word “slide” to cake and call it a day. Inconsistent names for this…
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Today is a great day to talk about the Mississippi mud cake, or do I mean the Mississippi mud pie or perhaps I should call it the Muddy Mississippi cake? Better yet, let me add the word “slide” to cake and call it a day. Inconsistent names for this dessert plus its endless variations within the basic recipe got me thinking. Your…
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Blogging for Authors—Lesson #3 While some might argue that blogging does not present a worthwhile activity for writers or authors, I heartily disagree, as I noted in my first post in this series. In that post I focused on three main reasons to blog—a blog provides you with a website, makes you and your work discoverable and connects you to…
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