Ever hear the advice to concentrate on one genre? While that has its benefits, don’t be afraid to try to write across genres. You’d be in good company.
Here’s more multi-genre authors:
Continue readingWriting Craft
Blog posts about the craft of writing: thoughts, resources, things to keep in mind, and more
Patterns of Dialogue and Tags
Uncertain about your dialogue tags and punctuation? Perhaps this discussion will help.
Continue readingOperating Online: Social Media Operations
My current business plan section on operating online definitely needs an overhaul.
I have, however, collected quite a few best practices and quite a few thoughts on content, newsletters, websites and more.
Up this week is my current schedule for content:
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Multi-Genre Authors, Part 1
Ever hear the advice to concentrate on one genre? While that has its benefits, don’t be afraid to try to write across genres. You’d be in good company.
Here’s a list of multi-genre authors, some of whom may you surprise you:
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How to Move Forward with Your Writing Even If in Fractional Increments
Experts talk about writing every day, or having a writing goal per week, or even praise writers who work the job as close to full-time as they can get.
Yet, so many of us struggling as writers fit our writing into fractions of time throughout a season of life, around kids, chores, full-time jobs, crises, tragedy, and trauma.
Is it possible to become a successful writer when your time spent writing is scattered over various minutes stolen here and there in a demanding life?
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In-depth Scene Elements
What makes a scene?
My code-writing persona is considering developing an app for writers, so I’ve been musing on scenes.
Want to get technical? Want a comprehensive breakdown of the parts of a scene?
Continue readingPlotting vs. Pantsing: The Tension Between Overkill with Moving Forward
Certain writers fall securely into the plotter camp, while others write off-the-cuff. I jump back and forth between camps. And, at times, it’s wearying.
With Salvage, I’m really trying to plan my scenes more than before. I’m using a free airtable account to track my scene data, but it’s possible that it’s moving from useful planning to overkill.
So, just to dive in and write new scenes seems a little like wandering in a field of corn on a dark night (I come from a long line of Iowa corn farmers, and I live in Nebraska; the simile works for me).
Yet, after a certain level of planning and scene data, it’s like wandering through a very crowded cereal aisle, trying to figure out what take off the shelf.
So, I’m spending too much time trying to get the scene data just as I want it, and too little time moving Salvage forward.
What’s the right balance?
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