New modes of publishing are opening up the opportunity for telling stories as a series of episodes, rather than requiring every story be a book-length novel. While some stories are great as a single shot book, others would be great in episodic form. Is your story more suited to a book or a series?
Deviantart.com is running a very cool community story contest: http://techgnotic.deviantart.com/journal/Odyssey-Into-2012-272543956 Some day, when my stories have a following, I want to have a fan fic contest and run it something like this one! What fun!
Well, last month (November 2011) I participated in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. It was my first time, although I’ve thought about doing it for the past couple of years. The bad news is that I didn’t reach the 50,000 word goal. I got about 2,000 words of actual story Read more…
You know how it is. Anything can become a reason to procrastinate. If you’re feeling stuck because you’re not sure what to call your novel (or your article or your website or your small business), don’t let it stop the wheels of progress! My philosophy on titles is this: 1) Read more…
When I need to think up the next scene of a story or to ponder the direction of a business product, I need my brain to get into a specific mode of thinking. I have learned over the years that there are a handful of activities that almost inevitably kick Read more…
So, I get this offer via a third party for the “Guru’s Guide” to email marketing from a company who shall remain nameless (except in the screenshot below, ha!). Always one to keep up with all things “guru”, I jump through the hoops to sign up and get this PDF Read more…