I wasn’t planning on getting a puppy. Sure, I had been snooping on various dog rescue sites, but I knew I was just looking. Similarly, I had pulled up the English Cocker Spaniel Club of America’s Facebook page and website, along with their rescue section. I have...
Attacks on the media—historically the guardian of a country's democracy—have hit a decade-long high. The President trumpeting about "fake news" is just the start. According to a Time magazine article published last week, "a new report has found that journalists face...
Want to bring your pages to life? Then you need imaginative writing and vivid imagery that helps the reader vicariously experience your story. But if you want those descriptions to really sing, you need to opt for descriptors and verbs that are as unexpected as they...
Would you hand over your infant to just anyone without at least making sure they know how to correctly hold a baby? Never! Then why do so many writers feel compelled to share their newly-born work so freely, without any kind of due diligence? The wrong words,...
Publishers aren't just looking for strong, new books. Quality is great, but sales are what matter in the end, at least when you're in the selling-books business. So what publishers really want to know is whether you bring an audience along with you. That means you...
After writing your rough draft, your first draft (or however many other drafts there have been) and then doing a line edit and even hiring a line editor, the last thing you probably want to think about is whether you need a copy edit. "I'm sure I've caught everything...
Are you on the path to success with your book? I don’t mean in terms of sales. No one can predict that. The only thing I can guarantee you is that if you don’t finish and publish your book, the only people who will read your manuscript are the ones who can’t...
If you’re a writer, you probably already know how hard it is to actually find time to write. Ironically, that’s true even when you work on staff since you’re almost always saddled with tons of meetings along with editing other people’s work. So the key, whether you...
It’s funny. If you’re like me, often you want to write, almost more than anything, but somehow you can’t seem to make the time. So you go back to review your goals. Then you try time-blocking. But somehow, even though you’ve carved out those precious writing sessions...
I hate writing about myself on my website's ABOUT page. I don't want to boast about my accomplishments, but I sure don't want my bio to sound like a CV. Many of us probably feel this way. Luckily, a new theory regarding how to write your ABOUT page could help. A lot....
