Today I’m guest posting for Catherine Ryan Howard with an excerpt from The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual. Don’t you ever wonder where to find the stuff of great fiction? Please join us for Mining Yourself.
Author: Victoria
3 Things You Need to Know About the New Publishing Industry
One day some years ago, my friend Roz Morris over on Nail Your Novel was talking about an issue that’s extremely important to writers breaking into the industry these days: advice on revision. I started to throw in my two cents in a comment and realized quickly that there was… Read more“3 Things You Need to Know About the New Publishing Industry”
Collaboration Between Writing & Music—the Porter Anderson interview
Porter Anderson of Porter Anderson Media is a Fellow with the National Critics Institute, a producer and consultant formerly with the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome and INDEX: Design to Improve Life in Copenhagen. He’s worked in journalism throughout the changes of recent decades at the network of… Read more“<em>Collaboration Between Writing & Music</em>—the Porter Anderson interview”
Talking multiple genres
How many multiple genres are allowed in a story? Are genres to be paired specifically, i.e. paranormal romance, paranormal suspense, dark fantasy? Or are there other multiples that are acceptable? And how many genres are too many?—Barbara Martin First, Barbara, thank you for being so very patient. I know you… Read more“Talking multiple genres”
Rethinking Motivation for Character Arc: guest post on Writer Unboxed
You all know about Writer Unboxed, right? Where Therese Walsh and Kathleen Bolton unleash every day the awesome power of the writers’ mentoring community upon aspiring writers of the world? Where I was hosted last winter with 3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction, while Therese appeared here with her wonderful… Read more“Rethinking Motivation for Character Arc: guest post on Writer Unboxed”
Making choices between fight or flight
Hi Victoria. I am a young writer, and a total newbie, but not a pantser. I spend months thinking my plot over and getting to know my characters’ inner angels and demons before I ever get to the keyboard. In one of your posts from 2009 you mention that characters… Read more“Making choices between fight or flight”
Hook: guest post on the Book Designer
Joel Friedlander runs The Book Designer blog, where he teaches writers how to navigate the modern world of self-publishing through his decades of experience in the small publishers’ industry. He’s an expert on typefaces, cover design, social media, and self-marketing. He’s the author of The Self-Publisher’s Companion: Expert Advice for… Read more“Hook: guest post on the Book Designer”
A glass-half-full attitude—the Joanna Penn interview
Joanna Penn owns The Creative Penn blog, where she teaches everything from how to take a self-published book to market to what to do with it once it’s there. Last winter, as part of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers exchange, she and I traded guests posts, her 7 Ways… Read more“<em>A glass-half-full attitude</em>—the Joanna Penn interview”
Backstory: guest post for Erika Marks
Erika Marks is the author of the debut novel, Little Gale Gumbo, forthcoming from NAL/Penguin this coming Tuesday, October 4th. She’s always been hugely supportive of the chats Roz Morris and I hold here, to the extent that we feel as though she’s having a glass of wine with us…. Read more“Backstory: guest post for Erika Marks”
The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual
It’s live! At midnight last night, we released my second book on writing: The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual It’s available in print through CreateSpace, in ePub through Smashwords, and should be on the Kindle as soon as they’re done dinking around with it. And for all… Read more“<em>The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual</em>”