Life Build Up

This post is mostly a reminder to myself, but I wanted to share it with my readers since I'm probably not going through with this alone. In two days time I'll be on a plane to start my week long holiday, no work, no school, no projects that keep piling up. I'll likely not be …

Get Engaged

Not like that! Well yes like that, eventually but that's not what I'm talking about in this post. I want to get engagement going between my readers. Hopefully this post will do it. There are three questions I'd really like answered by the time you finish reading. What kind of writer are you? What motivates …

Building upon others – Christian Mihai

  Before reading what I have to say I highly suggest reading Christian's full blog post for today - "How to Be a Blogger Everyone Listens To" Although I’m a big fan of original content, I also recognize that joining the conversation that other bloggers have started is one of the most important aspects of …

Anyone can Self Edit… well.

Self editing tends to be a writers worst fear. Typically, because said writer thinks they can't catch the mistakes they write. As my professor once told me, the secret to correcting grammar and spelling mistakes is this. "Write, write, write. Then once you've finished read what you have written aloud." Honestly, she's right. As I …

Research: Not Just a Historian’s Tool

As a historical fiction author and historian, research is an every day tool I use. With that being said research should not be limited to historical fiction authors or historians. This is one tool that needs to be used by ALL writers (that's the only exception of me using the word 'all'). Authors - you …

Find your Niche; what interests you?

What do you like to write about? It seems like an easy question... to some. Honestly it took myself years to discover what I liked to write about. I struggled with finding my niche, which tended to provide me with many unfinished projects. I blamed "writer's block" for years. Then I started writing on subjects …