by MKMarketing | Jan 4, 2012 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts
Sometimes I like to pretend I’m writing “to” novelist Chuck Wendig. It helps me cut the crap when self-censorship creeps in. I love Wendig’s writing voice, and I just feel freer to speak my mind on the page when I’m in his literary...
by MKMarketing | Nov 3, 2011 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts, Who is Writing What?
Writing “well” should be good enough. Good enough to score an agent and a publishing contract. Good enough to entice a potential reader to move past page one, and keep reading, breaking only for food and the uncontrollable urge to refer your book to everyone with an...
by MKMarketing | Sep 26, 2011 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing
Ever wonder how an agent can reject a manuscript, having read only the first 20 pages? How can they know a book isn’t something they want to represent with so little to go on? Before a writer curses all agent-hood while typing the url, Smashwords.com, self-proclaimed...
by MKMarketing | Sep 16, 2011 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts
Let’s say you’ve been ruminating over acreative writing project based on true facts, compiled research, or a memoir. At first glance, you have a choice of two markets—fiction or non-fiction—but if we delve deeper, we see an emerging trend in publishing of successful...
by MKMarketing | Sep 12, 2011 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts
Kristen Lamb just hit me over the head. I’ve been contemplating an issue with my fiction writing lately, namely the balance between “poetic” description (of scenes, characters’ appearance, sex, etc.) and maintaining straight-forward clarity to allow my reader to build...
