by MKMarketing | Oct 8, 2010 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts
I’m a little addicted to the The Script Lab. As I worry over and scrutinize my fiction novel, tweets about screen-writing from @TheScriptLab interject with lucid, helpful, applicable ideas. My blog is for creatives of all stripes, and ideas for good writing can...
by MKMarketing | Sep 27, 2010 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts
The book proposal may require as much time to prepare as your first draft of your manuscript. Or perhaps your fifth. While there are several schools of thought on what agents specifically look for in an effective book proposal, Gary Smailes, the author of several...
by MKMarketing | Sep 17, 2010 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Freelance Writing, Guest posts
You’ve finished your manuscript. You took an online class about preparing the perfect query and pitch for your beloved manuscript, the result of countless months and/or years of laborious love. You spent hours online researching the perfect agent–that one...
by MKMarketing | Sep 5, 2010 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts, Who is Writing What?
A few weeks ago I attended the Writers Faire at UCLA. There were over 45 seminars on the craft of writing, presented by a humbling variety of the nation’s finest authors, poets and screenwriters—who just happen to teach at UCLA. (I’m salivating as I...
by MKMarketing | Jul 28, 2010 | Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts, Who is Writing What?
It’s difficult to say “how long” I’ve been writing Radio Head. What’s that, now? Aren’t I writing a fiction novel about a “hopelessly dysfunctional Orange County family unraveling at the seams”? Why yes, but the truth of...