BREAK RULES AND SURPRISE YOUR READERS This episode is made to inspire you. To raise thoughts and questions and especially ideas. You don't have to do any of the things I talk about, but I hope this episode still manages to inspire you. Maybe it'll even he

REVENGE UNDONE IS ON SALE NOW! https://books2read.com/RevengeUndone DO WRITERS NEED A UNIVERSITY DEGREE My short opinion is no, but it's not always that simple. Degrees can be great, and there are situations where you will need to have a degree. But to w

DESCRIPTION THROUGH THE FIVE SENSES Us writers often forget to use all the five senses. We rely heavily on sight, and sometimes that can turn out to be a huge mistake. All the senses are important, and we use all of them daily. So should your characters.

Intentional Discovery Writing for Pantsers and Plantsers Discovery writers, a.k.a. pantsers, are people who come up with the story as they write. Plantsers may have a rough outline, but they mostly come up with the story as they write it. So what is inten

NAIL YOUR CHARACTERS ON THE FIRST TRY You don't want to write one extra draft only because you got your characters wrong on the first time. Especially for pantsers, but also for other writers, figuring out your characters prior to writing might just save

TWO INGREDIENTS FOR A GREAT STORY These two ingredients are by no means all that you need. A story needs more than that, such as great dialogue and so on. But these TWO INGREDIENTS are what you'll find in most great and successful stories that people tend

Line Editing Tips Whether or not you're hiring an editor or sending your manuscript to a publisher, you need line editing. It's a line and sentence level edit that you will do after all the developmental edits. Sometimes editors will also combine line and

Self-Publishing Is Publishing Self-publishing can be just as professional as traditional publishing. Self-publishing isn't a shortcut, it's not cheating. It's a lot of real work. Even more work for the author than traditional publishing requires. It's not

NaNoWriMo National Novel Writing Month is a popular writing month for both writers and authors. In October (aka Preptober) planners and outliners plan their stories while pantsers and discovery writers try to get vibes for their story with Pinterest and W

BOOK FORMATTING Book formatting is the publisher's job. Are you self-published? Then that's you. One way to do it is hire someone to do it for you. But there are also other ways if you're on a budget or if you have the skills and time. In this episode, we