When setting up a website, there are some important legal issues to be aware of to avoid fines or lawsuits. Here are some tips to make your author website legal. While the legal issues may seem scary at first, they’re managable when you take a calm look at them. It’s just part of being an… Continue Reading Make Your Author Website Legal
What Kinds of Fiction are Needed Today? The world has changed drastically and rapidly over the last several decades. Technology in common use would have seemed like science fiction within living memory. As a result, older stories no longer seem relevant to many people. They don’t deal with the same issues we must deal with.… Continue Reading Fiction for Today
You have a vision for the story you want to write. The idea is burning in you. You’re busy writing and pouring your heart into the story. However, it doesn’t seem like it would fit in with the lastest bestsellers. Maybe you’re beginning to wonder if this is really marketable. Artistic Visions and Market Demands… Continue Reading Writing to Market with a Vision
If you want to have a space on the web that is truly your own, you will need a self-hosted website. A self-hosted website is one where you rent server space from a web hosting company to host your site. Usually, the site uses software like WordPress to manage the content. If you create a… Continue Reading Choosing Web Hosting for Writers
When I first looked into starting a website, I was nervous about starting a WordPress site. I wasn’t sure I was up to dealing with the technology. And I’d heard that WordPress is prone to hacking. However, I’ve come to the conclusion that WordPress is the best long-term choice for many writers. It offers good… Continue Reading WordPress Tips for Writers
Why do I write fiction? It’s not an easy hobby. Nor is it an easy livelihood Ideas for stories often pop into my head, but it’s often a real struggle to get them out in words. It’s taking a quick and thrilling flash of inspiration and translating it into a hard slog of typing and… Continue Reading Why I Write
Once upon a time, writers just needed to know how to write. They didn’t need to know how to register domain names or put up websites. In those days, “the web” was something made by a spider. There were even many centuries in which writers did not need to know how to type. However, those… Continue Reading Start Your Author Site
When You Know You are a Fiction Writer You know you want to write. And you want to write stories, not technical manuals or advertisements. You want to write stories that give people an escape from their lives and that stir their hears and minds. You have a character and a situation you want to… Continue Reading Steps to Writing and Publishing Fiction
A career as a writer means doing more than writing. It means running a business and marketing your books. If you don’t market your books, you could write a wonderful story and no one would ever see it. Sometimes, it seems as if a writer must wear many hats. The writer not only has to… Continue Reading The Many Hats a Writer Wears
One of the most important aspects of many stories is the transformation of the main character in which he overcomes his flaw. It can be dramatic, like the transformation of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Or it can be more subtle–it probably should be in most stories. Stories in which the main character changes for… Continue Reading Character Change Writing Prompts