July's session of Camp NaNoWriMo is almost here! I first participated this past April, check out my stats here, and I'm excited for round two! I joined a cabin for the first time, so I can't wait to see how that goes. What is Camp NaNoWriMo? Practice for NaNoWriMo! Which is basically just a fun way to say...
My last post was about self publishing an ebook, so I thought I should follow up with how to get your book in print. Publishing your book through CreateSpace (a site associated with Amazon) is super easy and it's totally free. How to do it Create an account. Under "My Account" on your "Member Dashboard" click "Add New Title." Enter...
I have recently helped my uncle self publish his novel The Shrine of Arthis, and I keep seeing things about how much it should cost you to self publish an ebook. I am honestly surprised by how high some of the numbers are that I've been seeing. Because the answer should be simple: $0. It is 100% possible...
I've been working on my April NaNoWriMo, and I've started questioning how I would continue to reach my word count goals. I was also struggling with finding ways to bring in more scenes with my antagonist. So I decided that I would write a backstory for him. And as I thought about what the backstory should be, I...
So I used to think that writers without story ideas didn't exist. If you don't know what you want to write about, you can't possibly be a writer, right? I remember watching the Deep Space 9 episode "The Visitor" where Jake is a successful writer in the future and some aspiring writer comes asking for advice and says...
I've been prepping for my personal NaNoWriMo challenge and while sorting through the different story ideas that I have, I have realized that my protagonists are all basically the same person. So I'm thinking to myself, what can I do about this? I guess I never really imagined that anyone would actually read all these different stories, so I...
What is NaNoWriMo? Basically it's a plan to write a novel in a month. The national NaNoWriMo is November and the idea is to write somewhere around 1,667 words a day so that by the end of the month you have a 50,000 word beginning for a novel. I have never participated before, and I actually only learned...
The first time I looked at the Blogger interface I had never seen a blog from the inside before. It seemed so confusing and difficult to navigate and I was so turned off by the experience that I went and got a WordPress account. However, what I found was that it was just the same and possibly even...
So you're finally ready to get your own website for your business, author platform or whatever. And you want it to be "yourwebsite.com" not something with all kinds of additional junk in there. And you don't want to spend a lot of money. But you're not really a tech person, or you never really got what all the...
