Thanks to Jewel Punzalan Allen and Song Palmese for teaching me a new thing today! Turns out you can export your manuscript notes from your Kindle now! This specifically applies to Kindle Fire (not sure about other kindles). You can send a Word doc to your kindle, edit/make notes there, then export the notes – it will email a file with your highlights and… Read More
CLEAR WRITING
If you haven’t read Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”… you should. It’s less about politics, per se, and more about astoundingly good writing. (I just sent this to my son, who is having to read some painful literary book over the summer for Junior year in High School. His assignment isn’t even fiction – it’s non-fiction! Which seems a… Read More
IF YOU HAVE A CHILD WHO WRITES… (advice on navigating that in the age of indie publishing)
My best advice on how to encourage and support a child writer in the age of self-publishing… THE OLYMPIC APPROACH A friend asked me this morning about hiring a promo company for her friend’s Middle Grade book (h/t to JA Belfield for looking out for her friend). After dispensing my normal advice about MG being a For Love Only field of publishing… Read More
TRAINING YOUR INTUITION
I wrote this blog post 3 years ago, but I’m still using the concepts today. I’m about to start a new book, and I have to incorporate a big twist I unexpectedly conjured in the last one. *Unexpected* because it wasn’t in the outline, but when I got to writing the penultimate chapter, I realized there wasn’t enough substance in… Read More
TAKING YOUR CRAFT UP A LEVEL
I spent a whole lotta time on my retreat talking about story and craft, something I enjoy only slightly less than the writing itself. My usual advice is to JUST WRITE because I think there is huge value in going through the process of story creation multiple times. But I have to remember that I naturally fold learning into everything… Read More
USING EBOOKS FOR REFERENCE MATERIALS
I’m a huge fan of ebooks for obvious reasons – I make my business with them. But I’m also a huge convert from buying paper for reference reading/research to preferentially (and exclusively) buying those books in ebook form. Why? Highlighting and note-taking is so much better in ebook form. ELECTRONIC NOTE-TAKING I used to buy all my reference books in… Read More
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