And it’s the final weekend of January. It’s scary to see how fast this month is going by. But let’s take that as motivation to work ahead and stay on schedule, right? Here are Five Links for you to read over the weekend! 1. Let’s start with something that’s not technical writing-related, but still important […]
A new look at revisions
I’ve been feeling a little down about writing stuff for the last few days. Not a big deal, and that’s the not point of this post. But to state it simply, I was looking over my WIP folder and everything there seemed like crap. And then I started thinking about some novels I started and […]
Five Links Friday 1/19/18
Time again for another 5 Links Friday: The best articles I read about writing this week. Enjoy! 1. Let’s start off this week on a positive note. Author friends can help critique, inspire, and commiserate. Here are 5 Tips Find Author Friends by Deanna Chase from J.A. Huss. 2. Sometimes it’s okay to take a […]
Podcast Episode 53 – Religion in Your Fiction (part 1)
In this episode of the Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott discuss how to respectfully incorporate religion in the setting of your fictional world, and also how to use religion to further develop your characters. Related Links: Holy Fudgesicles, The Exorcist, Until the End About the hosts Jason Bougger lives in Omaha, Nebraska with […]
How to be financially prepared to write full time
“Don’t quit your day job” is about the most insulting thing a person can say to someone who has been pursuing their passion for art, music, or writing. That sentence basically tells the creative person: “You’re not good enough. So shut up and go back to office job and die a little bit on the […]
Don’t be so passive
So I’m sitting there looking at my folder of short story WIPs and a voice kept calling out to me saying: You need to publish another book. And it’s true. I do. The only problem is that to publish one means I need to finish one. I have a folder of novel WIPs and ideas […]
Five Links Friday 1/12/18
The weekend is here, and so is another edition of Five Links Friday. Enjoy! 1. Let’s start of with a post by Laura Vanderkam making the point that The Earlier You Start Writing, The Better at The Reading Lists. I couldn’t agree more, and one of my biggest regrets is that I waited so long […]
Does it make more financial sense to self-publish?
Welcome to 2018. I hope you’re all having a great one. I wanted to start of this post by addressing a somewhat common theme among certain writing communities. And that is that authors who write commercial fiction are “only in it for the money” and are therefore bad people since “writing for money” is bad. […]
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