Open Book | TIPS FOR THE ASPIRING WRITER
Open Book: An Ending for 2011
Happy Holidays! We are about to witness the passing of another year. I suspect there will be many changes in 2012. You can feel it in the air. It starts with the economy, the political unrest on the national level and eventually trickles down into our homes and our daily lives. Some people hate [...]
Open Book: Is Blogging Overrated?
After blogging for a couple of years now, I am wondering if blogging is overrated. Yes, as a writer, you would think that this process is a no brainer and enjoyable. But in truth, it steals time from my day, from my other writing and reading, and although pleasurable, may or may not be all [...]
Open Book: Blog Content Basics
No two brands of ketchup taste the same. The basic ingredients may be similar — tomatoes (or tomato concentrate), sugar, vinegar, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, etc. — but the taste differences lie in the ingredient quality and proportion. And so it is with your blog. Your blog site is uniquely yours even though there may [...]
Open Book: Quick Ways to Get Your Blog Read
The writer…the teacher…the marketing guru in you emerges in a spanking new blog. I was told that if you write, the followers will come. True to some degree; however, your success will be measurably better if you write coherently and have something interesting to share (your opinion or some newsworthy mention). Well written blogs may [...]
Open Book: How to Put a Writer’s Press Kit Together
What do you want your image to be? One way to craft your image as a writer is creating a press kit. Simply, a press kit is a collection of one-page documents that highlights your newest publication, a little bit about yourself, and other related accomplishments. The book market is fierce. You are your own [...]
Open Book: 3 Great Reasons for an Unpublished Novelist to Blog
People blog for many reasons, but for the unpublished novelist, blogging is a no brainer. I can’t remember which self-help guru wrote that if you want to be a novelist, you have to do what novelist do. If you imitate the behaviors of novelist, you will one day be that novelist. One of the behaviors [...]
Open Book: How to Transfer a Library e-book to Your NOOK
While I do not consider myself a tech person, I am not a newbie either. However, when I first tried to transfer a library e-book to my NOOK, I was having some difficulty. I looked on the Barnes and Noble website, the library website, called BN and my local library. Everyone was helpful, but not quite enough. [...]
Open Book: Grammar Rules You Can Break
Did you ever write a sentence and wonder if it was acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition? Or begin a sentence with a conjunction? Or write the way we talk? Me too. Even though I have seen magazines, printed articles, and newspapers write in an informal style, bucking up against Strunk and White’s Elements [...]
Open Book: Airplane Mode for the Nook Made Easy
My mom had a hard time with the concept of Airplane Mode on her new NOOK. She is not the only one. Below is an easy explanation of airplane mode. If the airplane in the upper right hand corner of the screen shows, it means that the NOOK is in airplane mode. It is ON. [...]
How to Plot by Example
Are you a writer who can sit down and have dialogues and scenes stream onto the computer screen with little regard to structure? If you are, and are happy with your results, you are one of the lucky writers with a gift. Most writers need to craft the plot through scene summaries and outlines. I am not [...]
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