Monthly Archive: March 2013

Have You Thought About This? : Warming Up 2

Have You Thought About This? : Warming Up

It’s a pretty standard aspect of any skill. Before you go for a long run, you take a warm-up walk. Before you go on stage to belt out opera to a full stadium, you...

Publishing Strategies: Self Publishing (featuring YWSer Alteran!) 1

Publishing Strategies: Self Publishing (featuring YWSer Alteran!)

When thinking about publishing your book, there are a lot of questions and concerns that come to mind. Especially when looking at the traditional publishing industry, a lot of authors might not like the...

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Murder Walks the Plank 4

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Murder Walks the Plank

Welcome to Bad Cover Art…Redesigned! Where I bring you the most horrible of all cover art I can find on the world wide web and try to come up with an alternative (that I...

Featured Club: You know you’re a writer when… 1

Featured Club: You know you’re a writer when…

Writers are peculiar creatures. We have particular habits and behaviors that mark us as distinctly more writerish than non-writers, many of which are common, and many more being decidedly uncommon even among our fellow...

Fiction Focus Week 6- “Coming back to Life” 3

Fiction Focus Week 6- “Coming back to Life”

Not only is it the week of YWS’ grand re-opening, for Christians all over the world it’s Holy Week as we approach Easter. So with these two things in mind, today I decided that...

Challenge Corner #6 – Cabbages 5

Challenge Corner #6 – Cabbages

Greetings! I hope you’re all doing well – and writing well. But if you’re suffering an inspiration dry spell, fear not! I have another challenge prepared, for whomsoever should require it.

The Editing Cycle #5 – Character Dialogue 3

The Editing Cycle #5 – Character Dialogue

There’s a lot to be said about dialogue. Perhaps a year, or ten from now, a revolutionary author will come along and present us with a book that has no spoken word, no vernacular...