It’s First Wednesday, so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group post! March 6th question: Have you “played” with AI to write those nasty synopses, or do you refuse to go that route? How do you feel about AI’s impact on creative writing? I have not experimented with AI writing at all yet. To…
Valentine’s Day as a lover’s holiday has obscure beginnings. The 8th-century Gelasian Sacramentary recorded the celebration of the Feast of Saint Valentine on February 14. The day became associated with romantic love in the 14th and 15th centuries, when notions of courtly love flourished, apparently by association with the “lovebirds” of early spring. Before the 18th…
It’s First Wednesday so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group post! February 7 question: What turns you off when visiting an author’s website/blog? Lack of information? A drone of negativity? Little mention of author’s books? Constant mention of books? When I visit another author’s website, I like to see someone who seems as…
It’s First Wednesday, so it’s time for the Insecure Writer’s Support Group post! January 3 question: Do you follow back your readers on BookBub or do you only follow back other authors? I’m not a big BookBub afficionado so I don’t follow a lot of people over there. I spend more time on Goodreads and…
Seems as if we celebrated the New Year only a few weeks ago, but here we are again getting ready for 2024. Here are some of the most popular resolutions for 2024 so far: We’ll probably sweep out the house (Irish and Scottish tradition) at midnight, then on New Year’s Day eat collard greens and…
There are at least 10–maybe 14 or 15–holidays this time of year to celebrate. I’m not even counting National Cocoa Day or International Animal Rights Day or even National Joy Day. Whatever you celebrate, I hope your holidays are merry and bright and your New Year is a good one. See you in 2024!
It’s time for another Insecure Writers Support Group Post! December 6 question: Book reviews are for the readers. When you leave a book review do you review for the Reader or the Author? Is it about what you liked and enjoyed about your reading experience, or do you critique the author? I do leave book…
I found I had way more than 25 quotes from famous authors for you, so I’ve broken my post up into two parts. There will still be leftovers, so I may do a third part sometime in the future… “I almost always urge people to write in the first person. … Writing is an act of…
I’ve been looking up content for my writing groups, for our social media platforms. Here are a few I’ve found that seem particularly relevant: “Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.” ~Barbara Kingsolver “You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write your way out of a…
At the South Carolina Writers Association StoryFest Conference, agent Amy Collins continued her discussion of the publishing business with a section on impressing an agent (or editor, etc.) Here’s what she had to say: First, find your people: authors like you and readers in your genre. Remember: you are not your readership! Questions: How to Find Your…