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Social Media Minute—Tips to Connect with Your Readers Through Pinterest

By on August 13, 2013 in Edie Melson, Learn the art of Social Networking, Social Media Primer, Writer's life, Writing Life

by Edie Melson Pinterest is growing by leaps and bounds as a valuable social media tool for writers. It’s a great way to connect with readers and there are numerous ways to utilize this image driven platform. Here are just a few ways to connect with Pinterest: Build boards with your book’s subject. Build boards that help you with world building or setting. Share blogs from others who write in your genre. Build boards from books you love—you can legally post the book covers and links to Amazon or the author’s blog. Build a board and share the blogs you follow—as long as the blog has a picture you can post it. Build boards with your personal interests, like knitting, sewing, bird watching, there’s no limit to the topics you […]

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Plan Your Career, Then Roll With the Punches!

By on August 10, 2013 in 4. Writer’s Life, Inspiration and Life Coaching, Encourage Me!, Life Coaching, Nurturing Creativity, Nurturing the Soul, Reba Hoffman, Writer's life, Writing Life, Writing Life Coaching

I know so many writers who set their sights on a particular genre, publisher, agent, editor. Their entire life surrounds that. While it’s good to plan—and you should definitely do it—if you aren’t flexible, you’re going to set yourself up for horrible disappointment. For example, I know someone very well who dreamed of publishing for one House. They worked feverously to prepare their manuscript for just that pub house. That’s great but they weren’t even considering any other avenue. They were so caught up with the desire to publish for one particular house, others never even hit their radar. Then the unthinkable happened. That pub house decided to not publish fiction any more. For me, it was just a piece of publishing news. For this individual, it was the end […]

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Recognizing Symbols In Your Work

By on August 8, 2013 in Editing Basics

I’m writing a novella. I’ve only written one other novella so I’m mindful this is new territory for me. Must keep the plot short and to the point. I don’t have a lot of lead time to develop the problems and setting, or the characters! My hero and heroine are Nathaniel and Susanna from Once Upon A Prince. At the opening of the novella, their wedding is four weeks away. So I decide instead of some silly argument or da-da-da-da tension to end the chapter, I had Nathaniel pull a gift out of his pocket. A single pearl pendant. It felt so perfect. So romantic. It made me want to keep writing AND reading. The I stopped. Wait! Can the pearl bring more to the table than a romantic gesture […]

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Finding Balance with Writing & Life: When Life Buckles Your Knees

By on August 7, 2013 in 4. Writer’s Life, Inspiration and Life Coaching, Lisa Jordan, Writer's life, Writing Life

As July raced to the finish line, I kept one eye on the days flying off the calendar faster than I could catch them and another eye on my growing word count. My third novel was contracted via proposal, so I had my first writing on a deadline. With the help of an incredible beta reader and prayers from my writing support teams, I had this deadline in the bag. No problem. In fact, I was on track to finish early. Not weeks early, but days ahead of schedule. Until life buckled my knees. One week before my deadline, I received a call my father was very ill and was being taken by helicopter to a large hospital three hours away. He underwent major heart surgery, but he didn’t make […]

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