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Staying Motivated by the Desire to Write - podcast
Donna Hatch
Author Donna Hatch discusses how she has found time to write, including what she gave up to make time to write and how her writing process has adapted to time challenges. Click here to play this audio clip
over 9 years ago
Managing Your Writing Life
Time Management
Staying Motivated by the Desire to Write - video
Donna Hatch
Author Donna Hatch discusses how she has found time to write, including what she gave up to make time to write and how her writing process has adapted to time challenges.
over 9 years ago
Managing Your Writing Life
Time Management
How to Effectively Self-Edit Your Book Manuscript
Author Learning Center
An important step in the book writing process that is often overlooked by writers is the self-editing . Before you send your manuscript off to an agent or publisher, it's critical that you take the time to do at least some basic proofreading. Even if...
over 5 years ago
Basic Editing
Proofreading
How Agents Select Which Books and Authors to Represent
Eric Lincoln Miller
Agents have the tough job of weeding through hundreds of queries and submissions each week, and deciding which authors and books to represent. Literary agent Eric Lincoln Miller says authors that have unique or trending ideas sometimes have an advantage...
over 3 years ago
Traditional Publishing
Agents
Common Misconceptions About Ghost Writing - video
Kathy Ide
Author Kathy Ide shares some common misconceptions about working with a ghostwriter to publish a book. Most authors don't realize how much skill and work is involved in working with a ghostwriter to produce a marketable book. Ghostwriting is expensive...
over 9 years ago
Writing Jobs
Ghostwriter
Common Misconceptions About Ghost Writing - podcast
Kathy Ide
Author Kathy Ide shares some common misconceptions about working with a ghostwriter to publish a book. Most authors don't realize how much skill and work is involved in working with a ghostwriter to produce a marketable book. Ghostwriting is expensive...
over 9 years ago
Writing Jobs
Ghostwriter
Ed Aymar on Writing Horror and Violence - podcast
Ed Aymar
Author Ed Aymar knew he wanted to explore violence when he started writing his first book in The Dead Trilogy. His goal was to expose how ugly horror and violence can be and to explore how they can change the characters that they impact. Aymar doesn...
over 9 years ago
Fiction
Character Development
Ed Aymar on Writing Horror and Violence - video
Ed Aymar
Author Ed Aymar knew he wanted to explore violence when he started writing his first book in The Dead Trilogy. His goal was to expose how ugly horror and violence can be and to explore how they can change the characters that they impact. Aymar doesn...
over 9 years ago
Fiction
Character Development
Making it in America: Writing “It Takes Moxie" - video
Maureen Francisco
Author and speaker, Maureen Francisco, shares the process of writing her book, "It Takes Moxie. Francisco talks about her background and her family immigration story. What does it mean to come into America and chase after the American dream? What...
over 9 years ago
I have an Idea!
Brainstorming
Writing True Crime: From a Forensic Nurse - podcast
Serita Stevens
Forensic RN and author Serita Stevens discusses how her background of forensic nursing helped shape her writing career. As a nurse, she discovered that nursing wasn’t anything like being Sherri Aims, her fictional crime-solving hero. So instead, she...
over 9 years ago
Nonfiction
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