Restrictions Breed Creativity: Lessons from Game of Thrones

Well, this season of Game of Thrones has been controversial to say the last. Some people still love the show. Others are starting to be...less than happy with the direction things have taken. I’m in the latter camp. Wait, wait, don’t go for that back button. This is not the 2,000,000,000th article analyzing this season …

3 Self-Care Tips For a Busy Life

Due to some things that came up, instead of a new blog post today, I'm rerunning one from October I was particularly proud of...that also was a good reminder to myself yesterday and today with everything going on.  One thing that I’ve noticed about a lot of up and coming writers is that we are …

Pasta Sauce and Books: Should you Write to Market?

The other night, I was talking to a few other authors in a discord channel we share. Someone linked this reddit post titled “How to make money ePublishing (without a bestseller)”. It had some really good advice in it, but that wasn’t what we talked about - we talked about one particular piece of advice …

Write What You Know: Breaking Down Common Writing Advice

Based on the response I got to the last time I decided to look into common writing advice that is often poorly explained, I decided it would be a good idea to make this an ongoing series I come back to every now and then. So far, we’ve looked at the suggestion of “just write” …

What’s a McDonald’s? Handling Exposition when you have to Tell Instead of Show.

One of the first pieces of advice most writers have beaten into them is “Show don’t tell.” The reason this advice is hammered home so hard is because it is, in fact, good advice. The story is almost always better when you show something, rather than when you tell it. It immerses the reader more …

2000 Words a Day – My 2019 New Years Resolution

While you're here, check out some of what I wrote last year and get a free book! 2019 is just around the corner! For the past ten years, my new years resolution was to write a novel. Last year, I accomplished that, and was able to publish Weird Theology. This year my new year's resolution …

3 YouTube Channels I Recommend for Writing Research

Happy Holidays everyone! Hope you had a good one. Don't forget to pick up your free book while you're here! One of the most time consuming things you can do when preparing to write is researching. It can be a long, arduous process that can begin to drag. In the post-holiday haze, you’re probably a …

3 Things that Make Characters Unrelatable

There’s a lot that sets a good book from a bad book, especially since what makes a book good or bad is incredibly subjective. However, one thing that can destroy the experience for a lot of readers are characters that don’t resonate. A character has to be someone that the reader can relate to; otherwise …

Just Write: Breaking Down the most Common Writing Advice

If you are, or ever have been, a new writer looking for advice, you’ve probably been told to “Just write.” On the flip side, if you’ve spent time on writing forums, listening and reading to things people say about writing, just write / write every day are some of the most controversial points that get …

3 Things to do now that NaNo is Over

We are into December now, and NaNo has come and gone. Hope you had fun with it this year! We’re now into the holiday season, cold weather season, and for anyone working retail, the very, very busy season. You’re probably (if you’re anything like me) running a bit crazy with everything you have to get …