Several readers had questions about starting a bullet journal. The most common question was: one journal or two? When you’re starting out and you haven’t built a journaling habit, it’s usually best to stick with one notebook. Your bullet journal: one or several? In Bullet ...
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Book Marketing: 3 Tips For Free Publicity To Sell More Books
Looking for easy book marketing ideas? Most authors never realize that there’s a powerful and free option: publicity. Publicity sells books. Last year, one of our writers’ group members got these results from one press release published on her website: Six book reviews in various ...
Getting Things Done For Writers: 4 Tips To Increase Your Output
A reader asked about “getting things done for writers”: is there a special strategy for GTD which helps with writing? (Here’s an article on GTD which has some useful tips.) We’ve discussed Getting Things Done several times at our writers’ group meetings. Some members are keen on it, ...
Writer’s Block: 3 Strategies If You Can’t Write
At a recent writer’s group meeting, we discussed writer’s block. This affliction is real. It can paralyze you. Almost everyone in our group has suffered from it, so we discussed useful tools and strategies to help us to manage it in the future. If you’re dealing with it right now, ask ...
Writing Fiction: Find Great Ideas For Your Next Novel
One of the biggest challenges when you’re writing fiction is finding truly good ideas. We discussed finding great ideas in a recent writers’ group meeting. Several authors maintained that the perfect idea hit them after they’d started writing about a character who intrigued them. Some authors ...
Writing Fiction: Outlining Tips For Pantsers
In our recent writers’ group meeting we discussed writing fiction and the fraught topic of outlining. Those of us who are pantsers wince when we hear the word: “outline”. Pantsers don’t do outlines; we write by the seat of our pants. We feel guilty about that, so we experiment with outlines ...
