Consistency is a Super Power
If you follow bloggers, YouTubers, and social media influencers for long enough they’ll inevitably provide you with some insight and tips about how they’ve achieved the success they’ve achieved. I follow hundreds of these folks, and often their advice is profound....
Characterization Growth Hack: Make Characters “Personable”
Characterization that captures the reader's attention comes down to something I've learned from (of all things) marketing: Make the character personable. From a strictly dictionary definition, personable means having a pleasant appearance and manner (definition from...
Capture Readers with the Right Question
In a recent post on my personal blog, I wrote about the idea that all novels revolve around a central question (I also wrote about the Newport Viking Tower, which you can almost bet is going to be featured in more of my future novels... just sayin'). In this post, I...
How to Avoid Writer Burnout
Let’s be honest—the pandemic didn’t change the habits of most full-time (or even part-time) writers all that much. We’re no strangers to spending hours locked in our homes, typing away at a computer. For many of us, WFH wasn’t a life change at all. But all that...
Side Hustle – Using D2D’s Tools to Make More Money // Self Publishing Insiders // EP051
Episode Summary Money. Hardly any word gets an author’s attention faster. And we understand. Money is good. Money is what we trade in exchange for all our stuff. And in this episode of Self Publishing Insiders the Draft2Digital team is telling you how you can make...
Relentlessly Good Fiction with Mary Robinette Kowal // Self Publishing Insiders // EP050
Episode Summary What makes fiction “good?” It’s the kind of question that every writer (and reader) answers for themselves. But it helps to have a qualified and bonafide expert offering her own perspective! In this episode of Self Publishing Insiders we chat with...
