Sketching, the “saggy middle” and The Winged Pen
Today, I’m over at The Winged Pen’s Master Your Craft blog post series. What–you ask–is Master Your Craft? Each Wednesday, the Winged Pen discusses prewriting and drafting a new book from the BIG IDEA to QUERYING. (Handy list of Master Your Craft topics so far.) My post is about that devious stretch of story landscape […]
Tame Your Revision Step-by-Step: 4 Steps to SORT-BY-SIZE
This TAME YOUR REVISION series started over at The Winged Pen. Here are links to the individual posts: Inventory Slice and Label With Scrivener Throw Stuff Out–There’s no separate post for this one. Everything I have to say is on the infographic. 🙂 Feedback Folder Sort By Size Re-Cycle Desperate Measures You can download the […]
An Aha! Moment via Joanna Penn: Publishing vs. Marketing
Joanna Penn is so smiley and enthusiastic and knowledgeable that she always gets me inspired. This webinar was no different. Got a sudden insight from Joanna Penn’s webinar on goals for the new year (2017): Marketing is what you do to SELL a book. Packaging, editing, and categorizing are what you do to PUBLISH a […]
Thrive During NaNoWriMo with the Magnificent Step Seven: “Give it one more try”
This is the seventh (and final!) post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. The first post collects story ingredients here , the second finds the core of your story here , the third cuts the story up into manageable portion sizes here, the fourth clarifies the story […]