Are You Thinking Big?
This is a business. This is your business. You are the creator of your business. As professional writers, and we’ve all read this so many times, part of your business and creating your business if the art of changing plans…
Book Review: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A National Book Award Finalist. An Amazon Best Book of the Month in May 2014. A Booklist Starred Review. A Heather’s Pick from the CEO of Chapters Indigo. The list of accolades goes on. I was captivated by All the…
Freedom with Writing
In general, most writers publish their work with the intent of earning some income. The idea is that over time they publish more and there will be a snowball effect that happens to them. That vision of money and not…
Is There Such A Thing as A Writer’s Brand?
The comment can be made that writers are a bit obsessed with writing, and promoting this writing. what they don’t think about, at least at first is how they are a brand. Writers are creative people by nature and the…
E-Reader review: Kindle or Kobo?
It’s national reading month and what better way to celebrate it than talking about e-readers. I am a bibliophile. Don’t get me wrong I love the feel of an actual novel in my hands. When I am at home I…
Taking Action in Writing
Inertia: is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion, including changes to its speed and direction. It is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at constant velocity. There…
Take A Step Back To Improve Your Blog
The art of improvement. With all the self-helps books out there you would think there would be a ‘magic’ button to fix all the blogging woes you might have. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. For a writing blog which you…
The Intuitive Process of Writing
Are you an intuitive writer? For a writer, there is a cycle to writing and publishing books, it begins when he starts to write a book, edit it, have it beta read, re-edit, and begin the submission process- with the…