Welcome back, my fellow creatives! Every summer, my university has an informal creative writing celebration where we host workshops and presentations on craft and literature. It’s always a joy to challenge my colleagues to break free from academia for a bit and write for, you know, fun. Fun Typing Time! This year, I was tasked … Continue reading Unlocking Memories: Writing Inspired by Music
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Start Your Podcast: A Guide for Indie Writers
Welcome back, my fellow creatives! My thanks to Jan Sikes for this post idea—I had recently blogged about the benefits I’ve enjoyed from my podcast, and she thought such a platform-builder is worth another look. So here we are! Think about what platform is–it’s VISIBILITY. So a book without a platform is just the opposite: … Continue reading Start Your Podcast: A Guide for Indie Writers
Drafting by Dictation: Pros and Cons
Welcome back, my fellow creatives! Time. It’s never been much of a friend. As a mother, I have to make every minute count with my kids. As a teacher, I have to make sure I’m meeting the needs of my university in the classroom and beyond. As an indie author, I have to maintain a … Continue reading Drafting by Dictation: Pros and Cons
We’re going on a name hunt
Welcome, my fellow creatives! Jean Lee here with a little conundrum we all face when populating stories: names. When I revised my character names for Fallen Princeborn: Stolen, I studied my Writer’s Digest Character Naming Sourcebook so much that pages came out of the binding. Gone were the names I picked willy-nilly because they sounded … Continue reading We’re going on a name hunt
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