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Another week has bit the dust and now we’re on the last week of March.  Really?   But, I’ve found more amazing posts/articles to help us with either marketing or our writing skills.  Problem is, it makes my head spin trying to assimilate all this information.  How do I make them work in my current WIP?  And now I realize that I DO have an issue with my main character, Karrin.   Work, work, and more work.  I hope you find them as useful as I have.

THE KINDLE BOOK REVIEW

2017 Kindle Book Awards

  This one is actually a contest.  I JUST LOVE CONTESTS!  I’ve entered We Journey No More and the 2nd book in the Excalibur series: The Revenge of Excalibur.   Only costs $25 a book, so what the hay.  The worst part about contests though, is the WAITING. Good luck to all the entrants.

Author Kristen Lamb

Do Some People Lack the Talent to be Authors?

The Novel That Isn’t a Novel—Do You Really Have a Story?

She has some top-notch, hard and gritty truths about writing, or lack thereof.  My eyes have been opened and now I have to  figure out what to do with all this knowledge.

Hungry Monster Review

How To Plot A Novel Like A Well-Timed Mechanical Ambush (Part One)

How To Plot A Novel Like A Well-Timed Mechanical Ambush (Part Two)

Like Kristen’s posts, these two have me relooking at my plots and arcs.  I’m in the process of doing the one sentence to define your book as detailed in Part One.  Not as easy as it sounds.

indiesunlimited.com

Back Matter in Your Book

Writing Description: Then and Now

Nicholas Rossis

Grow your Newsletter List the Easy Way

Give your readership a massive boost with Instafreebie

If you don’t have a newsletter, get one started, NOW.  I use Instafreebie, but I have a tendency to just let stuff slide instead of following up or through.  If you have the money, I recommend enrolling in one of Nick Stephenson’s courses on how to start and grow your newsletter. 

Richard Ankers

Useful Sites for the Novice Writer

Mystery Thriller Week

WHAT IS A CHARACTER AND WHY DO THEY MATTER?

Mountain Moxie Writing

Eliminating Negative Self-Talk in the #Creativity Mindset

She doesn’t post that often, but likes talking about the emotional side of writing.  How to deal with the everyday stress of being an author, the bad reviews, self-doubt, etc.

Word Dreams

Unconventional Research Sites for Writers

Kathy Steinemann

Exclamation Points! Plague or Pleasure?

This post is spot-on.  I see so many indie authors throwing exclamation points all through their MS.  Bob also loved them.  My first books were full of them until Heather, my editor, told me they were wrong, wrong, wrong.  Now, I very seldom use them in my stories.  She’s actually added some to my MS while she was editing.  LOL.  So, if you are a user of the !!!, please stop now.  It makes you look like a newbie writer.

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Well, that’s it for this week.  Even though a lot of these articles boggles my mind, which doesn’t take much, I really enjoy learning new things.  If you’ve run across any great posts or articles, please list them in the comments and I’ll add them next week.  Until then, have a wonderful week.