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So How Much Time Do I REALLY Have to Spend on Social Networking?

By on May 23, 2012 in Learn the art of Social Networking, Social Media Primer

Truthfully—the bare minimum. Yep, you read that right. But what about the hype, the promises, the RESULTS? Don’t the results increase in direct proportion to the effort? No, not so much. Fairly quickly, the return on investment when, it comes to time and social networking, begins to diminish. I that sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s the absolute truth. That said, how much time is required? It depends…on your expertise, your audience and the desired result. Your Expertise: With any new skill, including social networking, there is a learning curve. It takes time to come up to speed on how to use Twitter, Facebook and Blogging platforms effectively. But, you don’t need to become an expert. After all, you want to be a writer—not a social media expert! Here are the skills you […]

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So How Much Time Do I REALLY Have to Spend on Social Networking?

By on May 23, 2012 in Learn the art of Social Networking, Social Media Primer

Truthfully—the bare minimum. Yep, you read that right. But what about the hype, the promises, the RESULTS? Don’t the results increase in direct proportion to the effort? No, not so much. Fairly quickly, the return on investment when, it comes to time and social networking, begins to diminish. I that sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s the absolute truth. That said, how much time is required? It depends…on your expertise, your audience and the desired result. With any new skill, including social networking, there is a learning curve. It takes time to come up to speed on how to use Twitter, Facebook and Blogging platforms effectively. But, you don’t need to become an expert. After all, you want to be a writer—not a social media expert! Here are the skills you need to see […]

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Conversations: The Next Level by James Scott Bell!

By on May 21, 2012 in Editing Basics

I had a rare treat a couple weeks ago. While Sally was slugging away on her manuscript, I felw out to LA to tape a talk show – (It airs on the fall *to see pictures, of the fun day, check out: http://www.susanmaywarren.com/scribbles-blog/) Part of that fun was spending the day with one of my favorite authors and writing teachers, James Scott Bell.  A casual conversation about writing all day lead to me furiously jotting down his brilliance in my hotel room later that night. Jim Bell is an expert in the writing craft, has penned a number of fabulous books by Writer’s Digest (Plot and Structure is dog-earred on my shelf!) and I was thrilled to hear that he has an advanced writing seminar he’s presenting this year around […]

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Quick Skills: How to Build Scene Tension

By on May 15, 2012 in Action and ReAction Scenes, b. Building a Scene, Editing Basics, From the Inside...Out, How do I write Tension?, Quick Skills, Susan May Warren, writing tension

I just finished book 2 of the Hunger Games series, Catching Fire. Excuse me while I go pick up book 3 and spend the day ignoring my to-do list. This series is a lesson in how to create fabulous tension. Not only is the story premise powerful, but every chapter has that “can’t put down” quality. Why? TENSION on every page (as the Master Donald Maas would say!) But what is tension. Recently, I read approximately 1,768,639 contest entries. Okay, not quite that many, but it felt like it. And very few really wove real tension into their story. Obstacles and Activity are not Tension. Tension is a combination of a Sympathetic Character + Stakes + Goals + Obstacles + Fear of Failure. If any of these are missing, we don’t […]

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