The Conquest of LinkedIn – Your Profile Page
Fixing up your profile page, and populating it with a Twitter stream and blog summaries.
Community Management Tidbits – The Circle Game
The usage cycle, and the conclusion, of Community Management tips.
Pulling Together a Plot and Outlining a Novel Using a Starburst Method
Starburst Method for Writing a Novel Starburst Method? What is it? I’ve found it helps to consider some scenes. Not to write them. You may even want to role play them. And consider, e. g. when, say, a main character named Jennifer reveals she’s a zombie (or whatever your story is about), then there has […]
Your elevator pitch
Your elevator pitch We have all heard of what an elevator pitch is. It seems like it is the kind of stuff for overly eager new sales associates looking to make an impression on the big boss between floors. But there is more to it than that. Someone has just turned to you and said, […]
Writing – Starting a piece
Background – Starting a Piece Starting can be fraught with stress and worry. You can, at times, wonder if what you’re doing is worthwhile at all. But don’t worry; it is. One year I created a kind of web. I had the main character and put her name in a circle on paper. Then I […]
Writing Progress Report – Fourth Quarter 2018
For the fourth quarter 2018, I wrote well and often! It was my sixth NaNoWriMo. The novel I chose to write was The Real Hope of the Universe.
Social Media Happy Holidays!
Are You Having Happy Holidays? Well, happy holidays from me! So thanks to the fine folks at Canva, there’s a new holiday image and I’ve got to say I really love it. Plus I was getting a little tired of reusing the older holiday post. Hence here’s something new which I hope will be a […]
Community Management – How to be a Terrible Netizen
A little reverse psychology on how to handle yourself on online forums.
Senses
Senses Our senses shape the real world, so why not the fictional one as well? When we talk about the senses, what do we really mean? And how can our thoughts about them lead us to writing inspiration? To begin, let’s look at them in order. This is more or less in order of how […]
Community Management Tidbits – Let’s Get this Party Started
Getting an online community off the ground.