I’m practically an expert on this subject because, even though I’ve had a completed manuscript since the late 90s, I remain an unpublished novelist. I know, it’s an impressive feat, right? I bet you are just dying to know all my tricks so that you, too, can be an Undiscovered…
Write What You Want to Read
Truly, it’s not something I talk about often, but I love writing fiction. Ironic, I know, because I don’t do it very often. I write non-fiction a lot. All the time. Blog posts. Emails at work. Notes to friends. Marketing pieces. Comments on blogs. Pretty much everything is non-fiction. Facts…
Putting Together the Pieces
Do you know what my favorite part of writing fiction is? Putting the pieces together. See, the best fiction … heck, the best writing … starts with a single germ of an idea. Something that sparks. Something that sets off a chain reaction. If you’re lucky, that one thing is…
Is What You Write More Important than How You Write it?
Write the Way You Talk You have heard this “rule,” haven’t you? It’s all the rage these days. Internet gurus tell their initiates that all they need to do to gain thousands of readers or sell gazillions of widgets is to simply Write the Way You Talk. They insist that…
More Guesting
I’ve got a guest post up at Joanna’s Confident Writing today. Go on over and read it! You know, so Joanna won’t think we’ve let the place fall down around her ears while she’s away…