Self-Editing Schtips
Borrow from these rules when you’re certain they improve your story, but guard your voice against them taking control.
Read More Self-Editing SchtipsBorrow from these rules when you’re certain they improve your story, but guard your voice against them taking control.
Read More Self-Editing SchtipsI want to do my best to share this information so no one (with my privilege or fixation) misses out on all your story can be.
Read More SPaG StuffBooks are magic, and writers are wizards, and some spells do their work over time, space, and inside readers’ beings. None of this is easily or tritely quantifiable.
Read More The Time It TakesCheck her out, then support and adore her brilliance with me! https://lisellesambury.ca/
Read More Amazing Author Alert: Liselle SamburyI believe in the beta process the way toddlers believe in Bandaids. Betas make books better, and better books make happier readers who read more books. But what you get out of your beta, and where your story goes in revision, is up to you, not your readers.
Read More 5 Things To Do Before You Beta Your Book #AuthorToolboxBlogHopIf you get nothing else out of this review, go buy this book just to read this one page. If that doesn’t spike your curiosity, your Human may be malfunctioning. #sorrynotsorry
Read More Review: The Emotional Wound ThesaurusWhen I get stuck on a writing project, it feels exactly like driving through fog—I can’t see far enough ahead to feel comfortable where I am, the clear road behind is as shrouded as the way forward, and there’s no telling when some swift insight will blow through so I can go back to “normal.”
Read More Four Ways to Write Through the Fog #AuthorToolboxBlogHopFair warning: Some of these lessons might be carryovers from 2016, while I was lurking and cheering on friends. And there are a gazillion great lessons to learn from a contest like Pitchwars, but these are mine for now (and counting!). Subjectivity in Story I thought subjectivity was something I fully understood. I’ve even *gulp* blogged […]
Read More Personal Lessons from #Pitchwars 2017 #AuthorToolboxBlogHopEven if I tried to quit or take a break, it would hurt too, plus I’d fail, because . . .
I love it too much.
Read More When Losing Feels Like Winning #authortoolboxI stare past her at the golden sky. Five stars burn to the north—what Khompan Elders call The Martyr, and Ajh, The Friend. I call them the Reminder.
“There is more,” the Reminder calls. “More to you.”