199+ Plot, Name, Story, and Other Generators
As any author can tell you, coming up with names and ideas for a story is sometimes more difficult than writing said story. The process of...Continue reading
Category: Writing
What’s the Best Way to Create a Distraction-Free Writing Environment?
Writers have always been able to find a million different diversions to keep themselves from their work, and between the web, computer games, and the fast...Continue reading
How To Easily Proofread And Edit Your Own eBook
You’ve finally written the last word of your manuscript, and it’s all done and dusted. You’re now a fully fledged writer! However, after the writing comes...Continue reading
Never Write for Exposure, and Other Illogical Advice
If you are an active part of just about any community of writers online you ill surely have heard the bad advice that one should never write...Continue reading
I’m Breaking Up With Grammarly
I have just canceled my subscription to Grammarly’s writing tool, and after having sent a ranty email to Grammarly’s PR rep I thought it would be helpful...Continue reading
Authors Can Learn a Lesson from the YouTubers Who Keep Imploding
Inspired by the recent self-destruction of Youtuber PewDiePie, Polygon published a long editorial yesterday which looked at why Youtube stars keep imploding. According to the insider...Continue reading
On the Value of an Editor
Most of the time it is difficult to show the value an editor can add to a work, but on rare occasion we get to see...Continue reading
Guest Post: Technology Changes How Authors Write, but the Big Impact Isn’t on Their Style
“Our writing instruments are also working on our thoughts.” Nietzsche wrote, or more precisely typed, this sentence on a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, a wondrous strange contraption...Continue reading
Ghostwriter Wanted: Pay is $1 per 100 Words
The following Craigslist ad showed up yesterday on a mailing list I follow, and I thought you would get a kick out of it: I am...Continue reading
Lit-Era.com Promises a Paid Alternative to Wattpad
Wattpad has carved a niche for itself as a community where writers can publish a work in sections, polishing it as they go, before putting the...Continue reading
WDC 2016: The Best Opportunities for Writers are the Ones They Create For Themselves
It’s 2016, and much of the publishing industry is in disarray. Traditional publishing is sliding into chaos, self-pub is constantly and discordantly reinventing itself, and both...Continue reading
Buzzword Bingo: How Binded (Blockai) Says the Blockchain Will Protect Your Copyright, and Other Nonsense
Bitcoin and other pseudo-currencies are a hot topic right now, and startups are coming up with all sorts of ways to take advantage of the buzz...Continue reading
Hands On with the FreeWrite Hipster Typewriter (video)
Still on the fence with the Freewrite after yesterday’s review? Here are a few new reviews to help you make up your mind. I was following up on...Continue reading
Freewrite: How NOT to do Software
The first user reviews of the Freewrite retro word processor are coming in, and that’s not good news for the device’s maker, Astrohaus. Author and publisher...Continue reading
One Simple Trick for Coming Up With Names for Stuff
For some writers, stringing words together to tell a story is the easy part. The words just flow in a pattern that creates itself, leaving us...Continue reading