When the Story Slows Down: Practical Ways to Fix a Stalled Scene Every writer runs into the same problem sooner or later. You’re moving along nicely through a manuscript, the story is flowing, the characters are cooperating—and then suddenly you hit a wall. A scene that looked perfectly fine in your outline now feels […]
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Keeping the Story Straight: Surviving Your Own Canon There comes a moment in every long-running book series when the author realizes something both humbling and slightly terrifying: You have created more details than your brain can reasonably store. As I wrapped up the seventh installment of my current series, I found myself staring at a
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Writing the Perfect Book by Fae Rowen I’m not one hundred percent certain, but I’m pretty sure that the perfect writer doesn’t exist. It certainly isn’t me. When I began writing the second book in my published series, I wanted it to be perfect. That meant it had to be more exciting, more emotion-packed, a real page-turner. I
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It’s my pleasure to welcome Kleia Paluca to my blog. This Inspiration Station is brought to you by her. Thanks, Kleia! Many writers struggle at the beginning of their writing journey and never get past the first hurdle: the act of overcoming the blank page in front of them. Fortunately, there’s an ancient art that
To really get some sales going for your book you’ll need some bulk sale purchases. What are they and how do you get them, you ask? Read on.Bulk sales is a term tossed around by authors and publishers. There’s no clear definition, no set number of books sold that makes something a bulk sale, but let’s say, for
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Marketing a book is hard work, but the efforts seem fruitless when you don’t get positive feedback in the form of reader engagement. Engagement should always be the goal, no matter what strategies you’re using to market your book. And don’t start them until you’ve fully fleshed out what you aim to achieve. And no,
Written By Damien Bulgeja We all let bad mindset habits creep in our minds from time to time. But the crucial aspect is how we remove them from our thinking. Below I will discuss some of the bad mindset habits I have studied and give you simple, yet effective strategies to alleviate them. 1. The
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by Scott Lorenz Westwind Book Marketing “Reviews are a third party endorsement of your work. They give the potential buyer assurance the book they may buy is worthwhile.” Scott Lorenz, Book Publicist “We are still trying to get reviews. It is worse than pulling teeth though. Unfortunately I used up the reviewers I could threaten bodily harm
By Tex Thompson Striving scriveners. Intrepid introverts. Fellow fearless fictioneers. I am so honored to write for Writers in the Storm today. I’ve recently enjoyed a ridiculous near-death experience that I think may help you make a serious, profound change(in your life or in your work) … and funnily enough, it involves actual writers in an actual
Most bloggers start off with a huge burst of energy and excitement. But then at some point (often in their first year or two of blogging) they come up against their first bout of “blogger burnout”. And it can stop them in their tracks. If you’ve been blogging for a long time then you’ve probably
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