Author Tips

32 Great Reasons to Read a Good Book

Here are 32 great reasons to read more books. Please share. To escape your normal life. To travel to real destinations. To explore new worlds. To imagine more than you could on your own. To understand something new. To understand something old. To connect with the author. To connect with other readers. To dream a […]

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Neil Gaiman: 8 Rules of Writing

Neil Gaiman’s eight rules of writing are right on target. There might be other rules such as, Let your writing bleed on the page, but these 8 rules of writing are worth reading more than once — true for writing books, true for writing blogs, true for writing social media posts. 1. Write. 2. […]

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Writing Advice from The Wheel of Time Series

Here is some writing advice from Thom Merrilin, a storytelling character from A Memory of Light, book 14 of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. If you use the words people expect, they grow bored. A great ballad needs to be unexpected. Never be expected. When people start to expect […]

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Neil Ostroff: What Real Writers Hope to Achieve

Neil Ostroff, author of Imagination and other novels, writes about his on-going novel promotion efforts. In his recent post, he wrote about what real writers hope to achieve. Here is his take on what real writing is . . . As I get older and more experienced in my writing, I’ve come to realize that […]