Delete Bookisms in Your Story’s Dialogue Ever notice when reading a story that sometimes an odd word appears when “said” would do? For example, “Well, I’ve never!” she blustered.If so, you’ve just come across a bookism. A term coined by s…

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Create a Riveting Opener for Your Story A vital part of your story is the opening lines, also known as the inciting incident. In this section of your story, we learn who the main character is, the central problem facing him and a li…

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Avoid Shifting Point of View in Your Story Novice writers often are tempted to shift the point of view in their stories. While a few published writers do so in their novels and short stories, this generally is uncommon, and you probabl…

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Five Great Quotations about the Writing Process “The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.” – Ma…

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5 Great Quotations about a Room of One’s Own “The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It’s a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the worl…

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5 Easy Ways to Boost Book Sales • Post PowerPoint presentations related to book • Draw attention to book via article directories • Give out free bookmarks • Update your email signature • Hold contest to get more reviews of your b…

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Closing later today!!! Enter your spicy 🌶️ books now! 📚

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How to place photos in your paperback When formatting the paper version of book, photos are a must if you’ve written nonfiction. Pictures, maps and illustrations can add value to your book in a number of ways.There are several elements…

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A moodboard on a painted rainbow background featuring images of paintbrushes, pottery, and a hand painting. The moodboard also features photos of a pale hand with fingers crossed under rainbow light, someone holding a slip of paper that reads “never stop dreaming”, and a backlit hand reaching toward light. It also has a backlit photo of two hikers standing together under a blue sky with the pronouns “HE / HIM” above them. There’s little graphics around the photo of pens in a jar, a trans flag, binders, a bottle of testosterone, pencils in a mug, and a circle reading “RENT”. In the center of it all is the name “Asher” in glowing blue letters.

A moodboard on a green background with stars in front. The moodboard features photos and graphics of books, bikes, using a computer, glasses, and ebooks. There are also pictures of pale hands catching rainbow light and a dark haired man standing as lone in front of a forest. In the center is the name “Elijah” in glowing green letters.

Moodboards for my two main characters from my MM romance WIP “Faking A Relationship For Fun and Profit” are here! I made them in Canva and had fun with it. These two dorks will find love despite themselves

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Five Great Quotations about Manuscript Rejection “The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead.” – Warren Adler“Rejection slips, or form letters, however…

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Writing Inspiration: Man with a gun If suffering from writer’s block, add something that demands explanation, a technique borrowed from author Raymond Chandler. When Chandler had writer’s block, he would introduce a man with a g…

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6 Tips on Using Conflict in Your Story • Conflict: The heart of every story• Man vs. nature • Man vs. man • Man vs. society• Man vs. God(s)• Man vs. himself ______________________ My name is …

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Avoid utilizing paper dragon at story’s end Among the most disappointing ways to end a story is to resolve the conflict by using a paper dragon.A paper dragon is when the villain or a major obstacle facing the main character initially is por…

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Start story with event that upsets status quo Often the opening of a story involves some incident that upsets the status quo. In doing so, the main character faces the challenge of restoring order in the world.This incident is known as an…

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A moodboard covered in images and graphics over a light blue background. At the center is a photo of a light-skinned hand with fingers crossed and a rainbow beam of light over it. Over this image are the words “Faking A Relationship For Fun and Profit”. Around the central image are a number of other images of men holding hands, walking together, a person drawing a heart, and the inside of an apartments or cafes. There are also little graphics of a phone with bi hearts over it, stylized texts that read “sounds gay, I’m in” and “gay love is beautiful”, a hand holding scales of justice, a hand with fingers crossed, two Mars male symbols together, a trans ribbon, and stylized graphics of a person signing a lease and money. There’s also a graphic of many hands with pride flags and bracelets rising into the center of the photo, with rainbow, genderqueer, trans, asexual, and genderfluid colors. At the bottom of the image in pale blue-purple are the words “By Theodore Snapdragon”

Here’s my moodboard for the roommate fake dating M/M romance I’m working on, working title “Faking A Relationship For Fun And Profit”! It’s out of my usually speculative wheelhouse, but I think it’s going well

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Your story isn't bad.
It's just not fully shaped yet.

And sometimes, you're too close to see what needs fixing.

That's why beta reader exist,
Authors, what part of your story are you overthinking right now?

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It's only a reader that can understand this feeling.
its a feelling that can't be explained.

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March Updates!

* submitted the first 3k of my latest draft of MONTREAL PEN JOB to the PNWA unpublished contest in the 💋 Romance category!

* finished the latest update to my outline

* diving back in to get the manuscript query-ready by the conference!

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Quick Tip: Give your characters room to breathe Just as well-intentioned but misguided parents can stymie their children’s shift to independence and self-reliance, so well-intentioned but misguided writers can stifle their stories’ growth a…

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Chapter 1 GLORIA Mom was mad. Like, burn the house down mad. Yelling Spanish obscenities mad. Actually called her dad mad. And now Dad was pissed too, not just at her, but at Mom for "allowing this to happen" on her watch. They were currently alternating between screaming at each other and screaming at her. So Tante Petra did what she usually did in these situations - she scooped Gloria up and got her out of the house for awhile.

I wrote the first chapter of book 3 in The Fairy Thief series today.

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Five Great Quotations about Book Critics “I suspect that most authors don’t really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the …

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There's relief, and then there's the relief I feel when I finally figure out the end of my novel. #thankgoodness #amwritingromance

3 Tips for Promoting Your Book on Goodreads • How to leverage Goodreads for book promotions  • Multiple promotion opportunities await on Goodreads • Expand your reach with Goodreads giveaway

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Even though my new book isn't yet signed with GoodNovel, you can start reading it today!

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