Are you telling authentic stories?
Most fiction authors would probably shake their heads and say that their stories weren’t true. After all, myself and many of the people I know write about supernatural topics like magic or mythical far off kingdoms filled with elves and dwarves. Perhaps you...
Once You Find Resilience You Need To Look Beyond It
Resilience. The ability to recover from or adapt to misfortune or change. It’s been a buzzword for years, but especially gained traction in the initial weeks and months of the pandemic. As authors, we’ve been living resilience for years! Few other careers...
Counteracting the Isolation of Being An Author
For most fiction novelists, and nonfiction researchers, writing has often been a solitary occupation. Images of writers rooms for television or teams of people working on comics may make it seem like a social gathering. And yet, even then the writers still must come...
Twitter Has Lost Its Usefulness (New Policies)
Over the weekend Twitter rolled out a new policy–it will no longer allow links to other social media platforms or link aggregators (like linkertree) in tweets, in your bio/website space, or in your handle. Interestingly, when I looked at the help page to get you...
Rethinking the Wellness Wheel for Creativity
Depending on the source, the Wellness Wheel, which details areas of wellness, has six to eight sections. Spread out through physical and emotional health, social, spiritual, environmental, and occupational health, and sometimes intellectual health is added, these are...
Who is taking care of writers?
This Black Friday weekend my inbox was full of specials and sales. Take courses cheap. Learn how to be a best selling author. Get more marketing. Blah blah blah. The message was clear. Writers weren’t hustling enough, they weren’t marketing enough, and...
Why Authors Should Check Out Mastodon
Starting any new social media platform can be daunting. And with Mastodon, it appears to be more daunting than most. However, with the uncertainty surrounding Twitter, having something on hand to replace it might be a good idea. And there are some valid reasons why...
Twitter is a Real Time Lesson In Why Authors Need Their Own Platform
By now I’m sure you’ve heard that Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is going about as well as a car with four flat tires, no gas, and is currently on fire on the edge of some big interstate in California. And that’s probably being optimistic...