Posts under ‘About Writing’

In yesterday’s post, I wrote about how important it is for would-be online novelists to carefully consider what multimedia elements they want to include in their multimedia novels.
Today, I want to focus on a different kind of product–something that, while sometimes referred to as a multimedia novel, is not.
The heart of the issue is this: [...]

More authors every day are making the decision to post novels or excerpts online. Some have chosen web posting as an alternative to print-on-paper because of the rich elements they can include online, such as songs, videos and hyperlinks. Images, too, fall into this category because, while they’re sometimes elements of print books, online posting opens [...]

Tia Nevitt of Tia’s Writing Blog has put together some great information to help writers get the most out of Microsoft Word.  The principles she’s outlined can easily be extended to other word processing tools as well, though you’ll need one that supports outlining features to make full use of her suggestions.
This information’s great for [...]

Authors sometimes find it really tempting to use song lyrics in a novel or story. The words of the song are just so powerful and so right that… well, they need to be there.
If you’re considering using song lyrics in your work of fiction, you may want to come up with a back-up plan. Here [...]

In addition to doing full edits on my works now and then, I periodically make a pass through all my works, focusing primarily on the first three chapters.  I try to read them as if I’ve never seen them before.
They get a little better each time I revisit them because I know more about writing [...]