When thinking of how I’ll publish my book, there are three formats worthy of attention beyond any others. They are eBooks (and the formats contained within them), audio-books, and print releases. They all have their little differences and issues, and I considered that leading up to the release of my new book. I wanted to […]
It’s not a regular occurrence for me to test an app these days. Things are far too chaotic and the time isn’t always there to try out things. Journelly itself is quite simple and easy; this is what appealed to me about it. All of the text-based features you expect are there including spell-check and whatever else you invoke from the keyboard interface. Yes, even the Apple A.I. stuff is available too…
The most important advice I’ve ever ignored is that of book outlining. The idea is, before writing that book, build a solid outline of each chapter and the ultimate flow of your book. It’s great idea in practice. But…
Perhaps one thing that never gets shared in the aspirational and pefectional universe of social media is that staring at a blank screen is hard. Returning to something like writing when you’ve been away for a while is hard.
Curiously, all this talk about artificial intelligence seems to miss these bigger truths.
It’s been an off-and-on pursuit for close to six months. I wanted to share a free sample of what this looks like.
Writing is difficult for me. But, conversely, reading is relatively easy. The better the book appeals to my sensibilities, the easier it is to read. The concept that reading more might make my writing better never really connected until I started reading close to one hundred books a year. Here are six ways I’ve found […]
For those who act on the need to dump words into something resembling a book, they’ll be pen-to-paper purists or the type that I am: write it all out on a computer. Certainly, there are other options, but why in the hell would anyone type out a book using Dropbox and a smartphone? What I […]
That writing needs to hold some value is not a new concept. Those that write have some basic intuition that what they create needs to have some intrinsic value. Of course, if I want to write a science fiction story, it should entertain and enlighten those who read it. When I write on this blog, […]
Last month I attended a very informal “Meet the Writer” event at my local library. Speaking there was Susanna Kearsley, an author of a number of great fiction books and bestsellers at that. I thought it would be amazing to meet an honest-to-goodness writer and see what she might offer about the writing process, getting published, […]
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