Many of you are already familiar with Larry Brooks’ site, Storyfix, where he teaches writers through his theory of the Six Core Competencies. When he invited me to write this guest post for him I did a little reading up to see where he’s coming from and learned he’s not… Read more“The Bootstrapping Writer—the Secret at the Core of Competency: guest post on Storyfix”
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5 Qualities of a Successful Tech Writer: guest post on Make a Living Writing
In keeping with Tice Week, I have a guest post up on Carol’s blog, Make a Living Writing. Now, I know you guys are used to thinking of me as a fiction editor, probably because I keep writing all those posts about fiction. But that’s only after I went through… Read more“5 Qualities of a Successful Tech Writer: guest post on Make a Living Writing”
The Often-Overlooked Key to Your Writing Success
It’s Tice Week here at A. Victoria Mixon, with Carol Tice of Make a Living Writing. Carol is another Top 10 Blogger for Writers, a freelance journalist teaching through her blog how to earn a living in the nonfiction field. And she’s going to teach us something important about audience…. Read more“The Often-Overlooked Key to Your Writing Success”
9 Ways to Find the Time to Write
The challenge is to be oneself.—Derek Raymond Unhook You know what I’m talking about. The number of hours a writer can waste on the Internet would make even the most hardened geek’s blood run cold. Here’s my #1 tip to getting work done, the one that carves out time in… Read more“9 Ways to Find the Time to Write”
Interview & Review
Frequent commenter Shane Arthur of Editing Hacks interviewed me for his series on editors. Thank you, Shane! Now you all must hie yourselves on over there and make sure I’m telling the truth (not you clients, though—you guys’ll out me). And Helen Gallagher of Blogcritics.com has reviewed The Art &… Read more“Interview & Review”
My 4 Most Inspirational Posts of the Past Year
I’m not here this week—I’m busy getting old elsewhere—so instead of a new post I’m going to point you guys toward my four most inspirational posts of the past year: 5 Things to Celebrate About Finishing Your First Draft 21 Things You Writers Know That Non-Writers Don’t 7 Reasons To… Read more“My 4 Most Inspirational Posts of the Past Year”
7 Surprising Things About Blogging
So, I’ve been writing this blog for two years now, and I thought it was about time I shared with you all a few of the unexpected things I’ve learned during the course of it. There have been some real eye-openers! To wit: Big numbers don’t always mean quality readers… Read more“7 Surprising Things About Blogging”
5 Writing Rules You Should Break
It’s Weiland Week at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with K.M. Weiland, owner of Wordplay, one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers. She is the author of historical and speculative fiction, including her latest, Behold the Dawn, and she recently released her instructional CD, Conquering Writer’s Block and Summoning Inspiration…. Read more“5 Writing Rules You Should Break”
We can’t leave fiction alone—the Roz Morris interview
After-Dinner Wine-Induced
Fiction Editors’ Wrestling Match
Part II
In case you didn’t see last week’s post, I’ve been trying to interview Roz Morris, aka @dirtywhitecandy. She’s the author of eleven ghostwritten novels, eight of them best sellers, owner of Nail Your Novel fiction-writing blog and author of her own self-published book on fiction techniques, Nail Your Novel. She… Read more“<em>We can’t leave fiction alone</em>—the Roz Morris <del datetime="2011-01-17T22:41:19+00:00">interview</del> <br>After-Dinner Wine-Induced <br>Fiction Editors’ Wrestling Match <br><em>Part II</em>”
3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction: guest post on Writer Unboxed
Welcome to Sunday! This is a special one. For those of you late to the Top 10 Blogs for Writers game of 2010/2011, let me summarize: Someone mentioned this contest to me one day back in December 2010, and I called upon my legions of beloved readers and clients to… Read more“3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction: guest post on Writer Unboxed”