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Over the years I’ve come to recognize the Writing Community on Twitter as… complicated. And no, this isn’t your Facebook relationship status kind of complicated. Whether or not I think these people should be named is irrelevant because it incites the very behavior I am about to admonish. I have a few followers, I don’t follow everyone back, I talk about why repeatedly. I do follow accounts that I interact… Read More
Category: Social Media, Uncategorized Tags: #authors, #random, #sociamedia, #Twitter, #writers, #writingcommunity, writerslife
The first time I was asked when would I call myself a successful author, the answer was easy; if I was writing full time it meant people where buying enough of my book that I could do what I wanted. That was when I started four years ago. It doesn’t feel that long, but an aeon of time has passed, so much of my life has changed. Much of it… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #accomplished, #accomplishment, #adventure, #authors, #book, #creativity, #creators, #dreams, #ebook, #epic, #fantasy, #fighting, #imagination, #indieauthor, #inspiration, #nanowrimo, #novel, #novella, #poems, #poetry, #proud, #published, #random, #series, #story, #storyteller, #success, #successfulauthor, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, genre, storytelling, writerslife, writing
I promised a friend of mine that I’d let them know how I come up with the unique names for all my characters. Originally I debated doing this, I didn’t want to give away a resource that someone else could use. And as soon as I said out loud why I didn’t want to do it, the stupidity of not sharing it was only exacerbated by the selfishness. So here are my… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #author, #book, #characterdevelopment, #creativity, #fantasy, #generator, #imagination, #inspiration, #name, #random
