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Monthly Archives: November 2016
10 Tips for Choosing the Right Book Titles for Novels or Nonfiction
Book titles are so important. Would the novels Trimalchio in West Egg, First Impressions, or Private Flemming, His Various Battles have succeeded if their publishers hadn’t changed the titles to The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and The Red Badge of Courage before publication?” We’ll never know. But I think most of us will agree the publishers improved on the originals.
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7 ways to revive your creativity and improve your writing | Articles
When you write for a living, it can be easy to forget that you enjoy doing it for fun.
You compose so many press releases, executive speeches and blog posts that writing becomes monotonous and uninspiring. It’s work.
Though writing is your job, that doesn’t mean it has to be boring—it shouldn’t be anywhere close. Your ultimate task as a communicator is to make lackluster corporate messages relevant, interesting and inspiring.
You can’t do that, however, if you’re in a creative rut.
If you’re feeling uninspired about your work, I propose a challenge…
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8 Bestsellers Started During National Novel Writing Month – Barnes & Noble Reads
National Novel Writing Month starts today, kicking off that time of year when the insane among us commit to writing 50,000 words in 30 days (if you’re doing the math, that’s roughly 1,667 words a day). The name is kind of a misnomer—the goal isn’t necessarily to end the month with a polished, completed novel, but simply to force yourself to write every day. After all, as any successful author will tell you, step one to becoming a writer is to write…
NaNoWriMo & NaBloPoMo 2016 — 411 Junkie
All right, all right, all right she says in Matthew McConaughey, in her head. It’s National Novel Writing Month and for the blogging community National Blog Post Month. A push to kick it up a notch in the writing department. For those of you who aren’t familiar with these terms, feel free to do a quick…
Courting Your Characters: Subconscious Writing : Women Writers, Women’s Books
I think of writing as a courtship with my characters. I often ask them questions out loud and, usually, after some wrangling, these personas will reveal themselves by page 40. By that point, if I don’t know their deepest desires and what they’ll regret most on their deathbed, I know I am in trouble, that I am missing my mark as a writer…
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