Is it possible to publish too soon? Of course it is, and with the ease of KDP, it’s happening too often. I’ve been monitoring various Facebook groups, and one of the questions that keeps coming up among new writers is “How do I get published?” WHOA! Hold your horses! Trying to get published before you’ve […]
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How do you regain your focus to finish a project?
As fun, and as liberating, as writing fragments can be, there comes a point where you have to focus to finish your writing project. Even if you feel like you’ve hit a wall. Especially if you feel like you’ve hit a wall. If you abandon every story you start, then all you’ll ever have are […]
How do you make dialogue more natural?
Do you look at your writing and wish you knew more ways to make the dialogue more natural? Or do you read what you’ve written and wished that you could tell characters apart so that you didn’t have to rely so heavily on dialogue tags? This week’s post aims to give you two techniques you […]
I Had A Dream
If you’re anything like me, your heart will sink whenever you hear the words, “I had this weird dream, right?” By their very nature, dreams are weird since they don’t follow the same narrative logic as conscious thought. The apparently illogical nature of the dream is the bedrock of Surrealism – the movement would not […]
