Tweet Moving Write Along: 5 Things Every Aspiring Screenwriter Should Know (that no one will tell them) by Lee Jessup, Career Coaching for the Scrappy Screenwriter In an industry where everyone appears friendly, there is lots that is said to your face. The good news? It’s not exclusive to aspiring writers; to aspiring anything, really. [...]
Tweet Moving Write Along – Advice from the Experts: Beware of the Most Popular Hollywood Pitching Formula By Stephanie Palmer, author of Good in a Room I imagine you have heard a pitch like, “It’s Avatar meets Die Hard!” or “It’s The Hangover meets Bridesmaids!” The most popular pitching formula in Hollywood takes successful movies [...]
Tweet Moving Write Along – Advice from the Experts: Travel Writing by Eric Hiss, Wandermelon You could say it all started with the likes of Homer and Herodotus and other early historians, poets and philosophers, worldly travelers who not only wrote about topics such as the Peloponnesian wars, but also recounted details of the ancient [...]
Tweet Moving Write Along: You and Your EBook. The Time Is Now By D.B. Gilles, author of I Hate My Book Club There are few greater thrills for a writer than to have a book published, to hold it in your hands, to see it in a bookstore. I’m luckier than most. I’ve enjoyed this experience [...]
Tweet Turning Your Life Into a Piece of Art: Tips for Writing a Memoir by Marla Martenson, Hearts on the Line My journey to writing memoirs began in 2009 when my second dating advice book, Good Date, Bad Date, was released. I loved writing books, but did not think I had a third relationship book [...]
Tweet Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – 10 Tips for Novelists by Louis B. Jones, Radiance 1. Write every day, setting all other things aside. 2. Read a lot; read widely… and try to read only the best. For example, be patient and assiduous and undertake Proust and Joyce, as well as Austen [...]
Tweet Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – When The Only One Laughing Is You By D.B. Gilles, author of You’re Funny! Turn Your Sense of Humor into a Lucrative New Career “I don’t get it!” “What’s the joke?” “This is stupid.” “That’s supposed to be funny?” “You’re sick! If you’re new to comedy-writing, [...]
Tweet Moving Write Along – Advice from the Experts: Creating Ongoing Characters in Plays by Murray Mednick, DaddyO Dies Well The first character I tried to follow—though a series of plays—was Coyote, in The Coyote Cycle. The Spirit of Coyote was congenial with mine—a kind of deadpan, slightly idiotic, poetic, jokey spiritual type—Indian, for sure—but [...]
Tweet Win a Contest and Promote by author Carolyn Howard-Johnson, The Frugal Book Promoter You don’t have to win the Pulitzer to be newsworthy. In terms of promotion, there is little that newspaper editors and radio hosts find more enticing than a winner—any winner. . Here are some guidelines for using contests to gain exposure and expand your credentials: [...]
Tweet The Five Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success By Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords By December 2011 in the United States, ebooks will account for 20% or more of overall book sales, up from approximately 10% in 2010, 3% in 2009, 1% in 2008 and only ½ of 1% in 2007. Since ebooks are priced [...]
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