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
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
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
Writing Stories is a Business Disclaimer: although this post discusses legal issues, I am not a lawyer, and nothing in this post should be taken as legal advice. If you’re like many other creative and imaginative people, you don’t like the idea of business. Business people wear suits in drab colors, sit in drab offices… Continue Reading The Novelist Gets Down to Business