by MKMarketing | Aug 18, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing
7 Techniques for Building (ahem) Conquering Teen Fears – The Back-To-School Edition School is often the mainstay milieu of YA and NA protagonists. Building story tension, we authors can freely add conflict upon conflict, but one emotional stake is shared among...
by MKMarketing | Aug 15, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts
It’s time to get the party started, an author friend of mine quipped. She was referring to the independent publishing party, the one where our lovingly written and agonized-over manuscripts become honest-to-goodness books for sale. I couldn’t agree...
by MKMarketing | Aug 11, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts
The character who is an unreliable narrator can be one of the most powerful tools available to a writer, telling the readers a story that the reader cannot take at face value. In this post, Now Novel, an excellent resource for writers, explains: “The...
by MKMarketing | Jun 4, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts
A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice. When a reader comes to the end of your novel, he or she lives in the world of your characters. If the story was compelling enough to get to the last word, chances are good this reader...
by MKMarketing | May 15, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts, Short stories
Successful short fiction makes a big impact in as few words as possible. Every choice you make as an author needs to be deliberate, every character needs to act with purpose, and every word must pack a punch. When less is definitely more, focusing on certain details...
by MKMarketing | May 8, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Your highest potential
If you’re a writer, chances are you spend hours crouched before your computer’s screen. It’s a potentially sedentary lifestyle, writing, but there are simple steps we writers can take to boost our health, creativity and sense of well-being. If we...
