Sooner or later every author faces the question: in what genre do you write? It can come from friends and family when they find out you’re a writer, but most often, it seems to come from yourself in the form of, “In what genre should I write?”. It’s largely a personal choice, but before we…
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I’m 40 Years Old … Is It Too Late to Become an Author?
Substitute any number you want for 40, and this is still a sentiment you hear and read all the time … Teenagers who think they’re too young to be “real” authors Mid-career professionals who think they can’t be writers because they missed out on the requisite education and early job experiences Senior citizens who think…
How Many Words Are in a Novel?
If you’re a fiction writer, then sooner or later you’re going to run into the issue of how to classify your work. Is it a short story? A novella? A full-blown novel? And just how many words are in a novel, anyway? That’s a hard question with no clear-cut answer, but if you want a…
Use Mini-Milestones to Smash Your Writing Goals – Quick Writing Tip
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] To paraphrase the old rub, “How do you write a novel about elephants?”. The answer, of course, is “one word at a time.” That may seem obvious or trite depending on your vantage point, but it holds a truth that too many authors overlook to their detriment. Overwhelmed by Blank…
10 Things that Writers Need to Stop Doing … NOW
Every year, we make resolutions about what we plan to do in the next 12 months … We’re going to exercise more. We’re going to write more. We’re going to clean up our diets. We’re going to save money. Aside from giving up a few specific vices — smoking, reality TV, negative thoughts — most…
12 Pieces of Writing Advice You Should Ignore in the New Year
If there’s one constant across all types of writers at every point in our careers, it’s that we’re always looking for ways to improve. Whether you want to write your novel faster, pull more traffic to your blog posts, or leave deeper psychological scars for readers of your short stories, you want to get better….