Today I discovered a trove of ‘writing men’ advice for female authors. This is a nice ‘flip side’ of the story I started a couple of years ago when I pivoted Mike Sierra Echo away from my original idea ‘Cinderellavator.’ Inclusivity is a great idea for everyone – that’s why I was glad to find…
Time for some writing advice – let’s talk adding subtext, emotions, and sensory descriptions. I got some feedback from a rejection notice this week that I found incredibly helpful – let’s talk about adding subtext, emotions, and sensory descriptions to writing. Now first, it’s time to confess something – this is probably the best I’ve…
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Celebrating the release of ‘The Battle of Victoria Crater’ with some free author tools – would you like to learn how to make an audiobook? Step through the slideshow below – I’ll show you what’s involved! How do you make an audiobook? I spoke about the new audiobook I produced and released a few days…
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This is both awesome and sharable – lo-fi meets sci-fi in this beautiful 8-hour YouTube clip of rock and AI-generated scifi images. I’m using this while I write Mike.Sierra.Echo. Take a look, and bookmark for future reference: I hope you’ll forgive my lack of updates – as you can see from the MSE Progress Report,…
I don’t know about you but my life has been filled with ‘writing rules’ – turns out that there are no wrong answers when it comes to writing dialogue. Want to know why? Check out this Redditor’s explanation as to why there is no good way to follow “the rules” for writing dialogue: “The problem,” he…
I give away any free author tools I find – that’s why I’m happy to share this free collection of writing guides with you. Every day, another ‘writing tips’ blog post comes out, but somehow they never seem to answer the questions I’m asking. Worse yet, people post writing and book infographics, but I never…
