Want to defeat writer’s block? You can. Over the past month, our writers’ group has been working with a therapist and a group of experienced authors who suffered from severe blocks — they couldn’t write fiction at all. These simple methods helped. Writer’s block: why are you blocked? If you’re ...
Writing Tools & Techniques
How To Write Fiction: 3 Tips To Create Page-Turning Suspense
When you write fiction, you make choices. One of the best choices you can make is to deliberately create as much suspense as you can — you’ll write better novels. Recently I asked a friend who hits Amazon’s Top 100 with his novels how he does it. His response? “I look for ways to add suspense — I ...
Write Faster: Great Self-Publishing Apps For Novelists
If you’re new to writing fiction, the process of publishing your novels seems hopelessly complicated. Recently a friend who’s writing her first novel asked about the best self-publishing apps. I can only tell you about the apps I use, and find truly valuable. Self-publishing apps for novelists, ...
The Confident Novelist: You Need This Mind Hack
Our writers’ group has four longterm members; others come and go. A few weeks ago, a member left. He’d given up on his novel. He’d lost confidence. That happens often. Novelists give up. So in the following meeting, we talked about what makes a confident novelist, because confidence is vital for ...
Writing Fiction: Get Confident About Your Writer’s Voice
If you’re writing fiction, at some stage you’re bound to have heard the advice that you need to find your “voice.” We discussed voice at our last writer’s group meeting, and decided that it’s the most useless piece of advice ever. Here’s why. There’s no one single voice which you as a writer need ...
How To Write A Nonfiction Ebook: 5 Tips
Want to write a nonfiction ebook? I was complaining about the three ebooks I needed to write this month to a writer friend — I write nonfiction ebooks in my marketing day job. Clients use them in many different ways: they print them, they offer them as PDFs from their websites, and they sell them ...
