Spending Money on Your Writing Isn’t Always a Bad Thing
Sometimes investing in yourself is worth the money I recently received a comment on one of my other articles that got me thinking. The comment mentioned how interesting it was to hear about how I spent money in my writing career, rather…
Should You Pay to Have Your Query Letter Critiqued?
Sometimes a little investment goes a long way Oh, querying. That lovely process that is required for most writers to go from writing a book to traditionally published. That same process that, at best, consists of a love-hate relationship for…
Where to Start When Creating Your Author Website
From someone who has had too many iterations of her author website to count Back in 2016, after I attended my first writing conference, I decided to start my author website. I didn’t yet have a completed manuscript, let alone any…
Why Writing on Medium is Worth it Even if You Don’t Make Thousands of Dollars a Month
Or even a hundred dollars a month, like me As a former English major who’s somehow ended up in the financial aid field (another story for another day, perhaps), I’m constantly trying to practice my writing skills and break into…
6 Self-Editing Hacks to Make Your Manuscript Shine
There’s a lot you can do to edit your book without hiring a professional editor So you’ve finally written that book you’ve been working on for what seems like your entire life. You’ve followed your outline precisely or, if you’re…
How to Manage Freelance Writing and Working Full-Time
This isn’t one of those articles that will tell you to quit your full-time job, I promise As a writer who’s finally gotten into freelancing and is actually being paid for her writing (which, I must tell you, was much…
I Tested Out Paid Beta Readers So You Don’t Have To
To beta read, or not to beta read, that is the question Oh, beta readers. If you’re a writer in the midst of writing and editing a novel, you’re probably quite familiar with the term. It’s the idea that you…
The Ins and Outs of Book Pitch Events
Is pitching your novel — online or in-person — a worthwhile endeavor? If you’ve written a novel, you’re probably familiar with something that all writers dread: the pitch. Summing up a novel you’ve spent countless hours revising, proofreading, and developing…
I Had My First Viral Story Ever
…and it wasn’t on Medium I finally know the feeling of having an article go viral on the world wide web!The article in question didn’t go viral on Medium, however, it went viral on the oft-written about local news site,…
Why Not Writing is the Best Way to Ultimately Write
Sometimes taking a break from writing is the only way to actually end up writing. We all have those moments — seconds, minutes, hours, days, or weeks that slip by without a single word coming to mind. I’ve had stretches…
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