http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/an-odd-trio/ There are times, many times, that I feel like I know a great deal about writing, but not all that much about this marketing and branding business it seems I need to be bothering with. It goes against my nature. It's like telling a cat to go swimming. I started this, not only because …
Category: Saturday Evening (Writing) Posts
Where I discuss various issues pertaining to the writing life.
Thinking of my Writing Journey, Steampunk, and my Blog, So Far
First off, I have a link here to my very first guest blog post: http://plungingintothenovel.blogspot.com/ K.J. Bryen will be publishing her new book, Lokte in the fall of 2014. My guest post talks mostly about my writing journey so far and offers some tips that I've found are critical to surviving the first months of …
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What Can an Editor Do For You?
Yes, this is first Saturday Evening Writing Post I've done in a few weeks. I've been working very hard polishing up my book, and this has been taking a lot of time. I've been thinking a lot a great deal about editors and their services lately (oops, I just used the word "lot" in the …
When Characters Threaten Your Plot!
I had encountered a problem between writing the first and second drafts of my first book in my series. I think it is a problem that authors encounter more often than we think. First, I'll give you a little background. While outlining Book 1 (and planning the overall arc for the entire series of books), …
What’s This About 10,000 Hours?
Not long ago, I was listening to The Rocking Self-Publishing Podcast, and an author was being interviewed and was talking about Malcolm Gladwell's "10,000 Hours" rule and how it really made a difference in his writing. For anyone unfamiliar with the rule, Gladwell states that it takes about 10,000 hours of work and practice to …
My First Exposure to Self-Publishing
Welcome to my (late) first Saturday Evening Writing Post. I'm feeling only okay after getting my tooth done yesterday, so I'm going to keep this post a bit lighter than I originally meant to make it. I can recall very clearly the first time I'd gotten a glimpse of a new age of publishing. At …
SB James, Doing the Write Thing 