Episode 14: Creative Monsters
…techniques you’d like to share with us? Leave a comment below and tell us how you combat the creative monsters in your life. Link to Episode 14 (Right-click to download.)…
…techniques you’d like to share with us? Leave a comment below and tell us how you combat the creative monsters in your life. Link to Episode 14 (Right-click to download.)…
…an adult audience: graphic memoirs, graphic medicine, graphic novels, comics poetry. I love these books. But still, I miss the adventures into the world of children’s picture books that I…
…one she made for The Order of the Phoenix: (Photo credit: https://blog.paperblanks.com/2013/05/j-k-rowling-book-outline/) I make my plot grids in Excel or Google Sheets because I make changes to mine all the…
…clearly communicate your story to your audience (and to you too). It can be the building block of all your marketing efforts as well. As writers we are from time…
…website or follow her on Facebook or Twitter! Beatriz Williams’s Books The Secret Life of Violet Grant | Tiny Little Thing | Along the Infinite Sea (Nov. 2015) Overseas |…
…dark times, kept at it. Making comedy specials. Doing stand-up. Writing comic novels. The wheel kept turning. And as a result, so did we. Now we have this new comedic…
…of collaborative technology. We worked through scenes remotely while pots of chicken soup simmered away on our stoves. We always found a way to honor the commitments we’d made, in…
…to a group of sub-topics. From there, break out branches for your sub-topics into further sub-topics until you have drawn a web across your page. Why: Mind mapping forces you…
…that there are many other writing contests, too. Some are run by writing organizations and their chapters. Writer’s Digest runs a well-known set of competitions. Other contests are geography-specific, like…
…Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books) give us a great quote from romance author Lisa Kleypas: “But after twenty-two years of being published, I’ve come to realize…