Hey friends! A month or so ago, a reader named Katy told me that she was finding my book Master Lists for Writers “brilliant with helping me not overthinking about specifics.” Yay! She asked if I had ever done a list of descriptions of voices. I had not! I’m a huge proponent of engaging all of the readers’ senses,
I just realized today that 1 year ago yesterday, I published my first blog post! I had, of course, zero readers. I didn’t know a lot about how to blog, and I wasn’t sure what this was going to be about. The only thing I knew is that I wanted it to have some useful content, so I (somewhat randomly)
Last summer I read How To Win Friends and Influence People, a classic by Dale Carnegie (which I talked about in my July Recommended Reads post.) A lot of the book talks about things that you know are true, but sort of forget to put into practice. (And by “you,” I mean me, of course.) HTWFAIP starts out in a
Hi friends! Welcome back to my series about using archetypes from astrology as inspiration for character development. A few people have asked me to please finish this zodiac series, and I will before the end of 2015. [AdSense-B] It bothers me that Capricorn, the goat, looks an awful lot like Aries, the Ram. I feel like one of them should
Hi friends! Last week I published a list of agents who represent scifi, but as I said, you can publish a book without an agent. Here are a bunch of publishers who accept unagented submissions, along with comments from editors on what they’re looking for. All the tweets here date from late summer and fall 2015. Clicking on the name of
Hey friends! This is a list of agents looking for ue cience fiction, along with recent comments from some of them about what they’re looking for. This isn’t my genre, but I’ve met a lot of people working in it lately 🙂 I pulled some of the comments from the agency websites and some from Manuscript Wish List. All the Manuscript Wish
Hey there! This is part of a series on developing fictional characters using supposed traits of zodiac signs. Whether you believe in astrology or not, it’s a fun way to think about personality types. [AdSense-B] Today we’re looking at Sagittarius. Of all the zodiac signs, it is the hardest to spell, and it’s the sign of the centaur who likes