Editing DOWN for Word Count
The other day, I wrote on my author’s blog about editing down a novel to get word count within the proper guidelines. You can read that post here. One of the things I talked about was how my novel, in...
View ArticleSuite101 Changes Guidelines: How Does This Impact Writers?
If you haven’t seen it, check out the new post about guidelines on Suite101. You can find the new Suite101 guidelines by clicking here. The one that stands out the most to me and will likely get more...
View ArticleDescription in Your Novel: Don’t Force Feed Your Reader
I’ve been reading some of the best-selling authors out there recently: Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, David Weber, and several others, as well as some of the not-so-best-selling, but still good writers...
View ArticleMahalo.com Class Action – Lawsuit – Law Firm Retained
A law firm has been retained in consideration for a potential class-action lawsuit against Mahalo.com.Because it is a pending legal action, I can’t go into too much detail here on the blog or in email,...
View ArticleAndwriting.com & RealWritingJobs.com: New Spam & Scam Writing Sites
It started last week on my Twitter account, when I started receiving multiple follow requests in my email, all from people structuring their user name like this: First_Initial_Last. Every one of them...
View ArticleA Little About How Class Action Lawsuits Work (Mahalo Class Action Lawsuit)
Many of you have been asking me questions about the Mahalo.com lawsuit, the class action lawsuit that is potentially pending against Mahalo.com, and I haven’t been able to say much, for good reason:...
View ArticleHow to Write a Magazine Article Query to an Editor
One of the more common questions asked in the writers forum (which you can visit here if you’re a writer — it’s a free and awesome writers forum) is about how to transition from writing online content...
View ArticleHow to Make Money on Your Blog without Adsense or Sponsored Posts
Google Adsense seems to be the fallback position for most everyone writing on the internet on a blog today in order to make money with their blog. Unfortunately, the majority of people who have Adsense...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: CROSSING THE BRIDGE, by Michael Baron, from The Story Plant
The second novel from Michael Baron, CROSSING THE BRIDGE, tells the first person narrative story of Hugh, a young man whose younger and more popular and outgoing brother had died ten years earlier in...
View ArticleHow to Foreshadow the Right Way
I want to start with a short little snippet of a story, nothing major, but take a moment to read this–it’s part of the post. ~~~***~~~ The couple lay together in bed, in each other’s arms, laughing at...
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