How I Got My First Novel to Print

When I wrote my first novel, I was elated. It was in 1997, and I wrote it in under four months. I had always dreamed of writing a novel but always seemed to find excuses not to sit down and just write it. After a life-altering event, I re-evaluated my life and what I wanted to accomplish.

Organizing Researches With Binders

Binders, book binders, loose leaf binders, and clips are useful tools in organizing researches.

Hero's Journey (Monomyth) and Story Structure: Pushes, Pulls, Time Pressure and Antagonisms

188+ stages of the Hero's Journey you need to know about...

Freelance Writers: Ditch Queries, Cranky Editors & the Starving Freelancer Existence

I'm constantly amazed at the number of large, national publications/companies that want quality writing, design, artwork, etc. for their publications, but take months to answer queries, make freelancers wait even more months to be paid, pay paltry for the assignments to begin with, cancel gigs for no reason at all and treat freelancers little better than unnecessary cogs in an unnecessary wheel.

Freelance Writers: How to Get Repeat Business from A Niche Market -- Easily & Continually

Freelance writers, did you know that you can get repeat business from a niche market -- easily and continually? Did you also know that you can make this market so profitable that it may be the ONLY market you will ever have to target? How do you do this? In the following three ways:

Hero's Journey (Monomyth) and Screenwriting: the Learning Process

188+ stages of the hero's Journey you need to know about...

Speaker Loses Words And Money

If he had a book and sold it for $25 and if only half the audience (150 people) bought his book that day, he would have made $3,750. That's almost $4,000! I don't know about you, but I'd certainly like to make $3750 in one day.

Give Your Book a Selling Chance Before You Write It, Part 3

Discover how to make your book show you the money. Design it with passion points and sell WAY more!

Unique Story Writing and Sharing My Real Life Journey - Transformation of a Butterfly

Hi! This is part of my story. I've attempt to put it in a very unique form of story to describe part of my journey in life. To make it an interesting story and easy to understand I chose to use the transformation of a butterfly to explain my story.

Give Your Book Title Marketing Appeal for the Masses, P1

Does your book title still sound like a working title? Most working titles should never make it through the final edit. Titles are one of the most important aspects of your book. Getting this aspect wrong could mean your book never receives all the attention your message deserves-

Technical Writers Are The Hiking Boots Of The Writing World

An article describing technical writing and the top four business and personal qualities needed to be a successful technical writer. This article includes details on how those skills help a technical writer and how a person might have trouble if they don't possess those skills.

Hero's Journey (Monomyth) : Transformation Mentor

188+ stages of the Hero's Journey (Monomyth) you need to know about...

Really Good Word Usage – No. 20: Shall I or Will I?

When do we use shall instead of will or will instead of shall? The short answer to the question is that, to an overwhelming extent, in American English, will as a verb meaning intend to can be used in every construction where will or shall is a choice.