Came across this article and felt an immediate kinship with this author. As my writer peeps know, I’ve been planning to release my story(s) in serialized form, as “episodes”. Here’s the story of someone who did just that: Tips for Dividing Your Novel for Serialisation by Roz Morris Although she Read more…
Everybody knows that they should have an author page. And a website for each book or series. But have you considered that perhaps your main character might have a blog of his/her own? Or that your readers might want to play a mobile phone app related to your story world? Read more…
New modes of publishing are opening up the opportunity for telling stories as a series of episodes, rather than requiring every story be a book-length novel. While some stories are great as a single shot book, others would be great in episodic form. Is your story more suited to a book or a series?
Deviantart.com is running a very cool community story contest: http://techgnotic.deviantart.com/journal/Odyssey-Into-2012-272543956 Some day, when my stories have a following, I want to have a fan fic contest and run it something like this one! What fun!
Well, last month (November 2011) I participated in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. It was my first time, although I’ve thought about doing it for the past couple of years. The bad news is that I didn’t reach the 50,000 word goal. I got about 2,000 words of actual story Read more…
You know how it is. Anything can become a reason to procrastinate. If you’re feeling stuck because you’re not sure what to call your novel (or your article or your website or your small business), don’t let it stop the wheels of progress! My philosophy on titles is this: 1) Read more…