You, Social Networking on Twitter and Facebook, and Money
How much money should you spend using social media? Social media can be a leech, in terms of time needed, to get “seen” by the people who matter most to you, your readers. Living a Life of writing has been…
Guest Blogger Judy Croome: A Rose By Any Other Name (Or Branding Yourself)
A Rose by Any Other Name by Judy Croome Walking into a grocery store to buy some butter, we go straight to the aisle marked ‘Dairy’, choose the brand we prefer and head to the till to pay for it.…
Guest Blogger Judy Croome: Writers, What Are You Really Saying?
What are you really saying? When a writer trawls through her pages, carefully removing a word here, or changing another word there, how does she know which word to delete and which new word to use? What makes one word more suited to this sentence, but…
The Kindness of Strangers
Why it is so hard to self-publish and earn money on a book? I’ve heard so many numbers, I’m not sure what to think. This is one of the reader questions submitted for this month. It seems like a simple…
15 Reader Questions Answered
This month, on Living a Life of Writing, we opened our doors for reader questions about publishing, self-publishing, numbers, writing and just generally what it is like to be a writer. Most of these questions have to do with “numbers”…