8 Sources of Market Info

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Sell your novel! AND Your Other Writing Where do you get marketing info that helps you decide when Continue Reading

4 Tips on Promoting to Educators

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Put your Book in Educator's Classrooms A friend and I recently sat down with two librarians to talk Continue Reading

Develop Sympathy with Character Traits 9

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Use Character Traits to Make Your Character Sympathetic Yesterday, we looked at 9 character traits Continue Reading

9 Traits of Sympathetic Characters

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Creating Sympathetic Characters, Part I I am working on characters in my VNovel. Apparently, I Continue Reading

How to Prioritize Your Writing Tasks

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Prioritize Your Writing Time Does your To-Do List look anything like mine? I constantly have to Continue Reading

The Dog, the Chicken and the Boxer Shorts: Real Events Inspire Novel Events

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Stealing from Life: You Can't Make this Up I was talking to my friend, LFP, and he told me about Continue Reading

Shrunken Manuscript Reveals Novel’s Strengths and Weaknesses

Shrunken Manuscript Technique Helps Visualize Problems Following my directions for shrinking, Continue Reading

10 Checkpoints for Scenes

Do NOT Pass Go Until You've Passed this Check List

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