How to welcome a new main character into your mind

Posted on January 16, 2023 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Some authors are fortunate enough to have characters truly move into their heads. It's a mixed blessing, though, because at...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Writer's Digest, Writing advice

Make sure your Amazon page is actually selling your book

Posted on January 16, 2023 at 9:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

School's out today for most students in the United States, but class is in session at Author Marketing Experts. Penny...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Marketing / promotion, Penny Sansevieri

Keep your story's stakes front and center in these three moments

Posted on January 15, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writers have a reputation for, shall we say, not exactly coddling their characters. And Kathryn Craft's post for Writer Unboxed...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Plot / narrative, Writer Unboxed, Writing advice

Practice your narrative writing with the Kindlepreneur's prompts

Posted on January 14, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Whether you're writing for pleasure or a living (or a mix of both), there are a few skills you'll want...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Writer's block / writing prompts, Writing advice

How characters' insecurities can lift your story up

Posted on January 13, 2023 at 3:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Truth isn't always similar to fiction. For example, especially after the past few years, most of us are craving unremarkable...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Writing advice

Kris Rusch: 2022 was the year of authors cutting out the middle man

Posted on January 13, 2023 at 8:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Selling direct to readers isn't a new idea. But, says Kristine Kathryn Rusch, it became much more popular and common...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Bookstore, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Publishing, The business of writing

3 bad habits some writers have picked up from TV and movies

Posted on January 12, 2023 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Authors hear a lot of advice about movie or TV techniques to implement in their writing. And yeah, we post...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writing advice

How authors can combine pantsing with plotting

Posted on January 12, 2023 at 9:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You've been reminded on this blog, a few times, that you don't have to define yourself as an extreme plotter...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writer's Digest, Writing advice

What does writing success mean, for you?

Posted on January 11, 2023 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Jim Dempsey's post for Writer Unboxed discussing the hard facts of traditional publishing isn't intended to be a downer. It's...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Motivational, Writer Unboxed

Backstory 101 with a veteran book editor

Posted on January 11, 2023 at 9:50 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Editor Tiffany Yates Martin acknowledges that the scales are somewhat skewed in one direction, when it comes to measuring out the...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Jane Friedman, Writing advice