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Kill Writer’s Block Now: The Fast Track to Creativity Starts Here

by MKMarketing | Apr 24, 2013 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Your highest potential

Staring at a blank page? No me, my friend; I’m already off and writing this blog post, charmed by the prolific Charles Bukowski, “Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.” (The Last Night of the Earth Poems) Garnering the...

Sell More Books: Good Writing vs. Creating Urgency

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...

Manuscript Rejected After Only 20 Pages? What gives?

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...

8 Steps for a Focused Writing Plan, Fact and Fiction

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...

Editing Fiction for Intelligent Readers (No Spoon-feeding Allowed.)

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...
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