How to Query a Book Like a Pro
Photo by Anne-Onyme on Pixabay Literary agents offer an incredible service to serious writers. Their whole job is to do all the footwork to find a publisher that’s willing to get your book out into...
Getting Feedback Is Hard. Here’s How to Make It Easier
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash If I ate a donut for every time I'd heard someone tell me how important getting feedback is for writers and other professionals, I'd look a lot like Violet in Willy Wonka,...
How to Choose Which Stories or Articles to Write
Image by chenspec on Pixabay I could just be a freak about this, but the number of things I want to write in articles or books is getting longer than Santa’s Naughty-and-Nice list. If I...
How to Use Automation in Writing Without Sacrificing Originality
Image by mohamed_hassan on Pixabay In a previous article, I talked about my disdain for using artificial intelligence to produce writing content. In that piece, I tried to stress that, although AI can support writers,...
Providing “Value” on Social Media: What I Learned This Week
Image created by Wanda Thibodeaux on Canva It used to be that writers had lots of help marketing themselves, simply because publishers knew that good marketing meant more money in their own pockets. Want to...
Headlines Stink? Try These 8 Power-Ups
Image created by Wanda Thibodeaux on Canva One of the best things about the digital world right now is that writers can get their content out on tons of platforms. It’s easier than ever to...
What to Do When Your Draft Genuinely Sucks
Image by Anuj Chawla from PixabayEvery writer I know understands that producing a book–or even an article or blog post–is a process. It’s rare for people to spew one version of something, hit publish, and...
The Ultimate Writer Self-Care Checklist
Image by Victoria_Borodinova from PixabayWriting tends to be a pretty lonely and thankless job. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value, and it certainly doesn’t mean that you can’t practice self-care so that everything...
