Pinterest is an interesting place. It’s one of the few platforms that you can use to get targeted traffic and make sales. I’ve been a member ever since you needed an invitation to get an account. Julie Coffman, who creates and published low content books, has made a course about how publishers can use Pinterest […]
After I had my first short story published, I waited several years to find new inspiration. Only much later did I discover that you don’t wait for inspiration to come to you; you go out and get it. So how do you get inspiration for creative writing? If I say that inspiration is everywhere around […]
There’s another word for “research for fiction writers.” Procrastination. So this morning, I was almost ready to write when I figured I needed two more pieces of information before I could begin. The first one was to find out what you call a lawyer in the United States. In Denmark, where I grew up, they […]
Before you start writing a novel, I recommend that you do at least a few preparations. You need an idea, your main characters, and the world and time your story will take place in. After that, you could start writing, but I find it a lot easier to have more planned. You have to figure […]
Writing step-by-step books must be done the right way, or your readers will feel frustrated and unhappy.
I think on paper. Some people can dictate books – like Barbara Cartland… Me? I need to write them down, think, while I type, or simply go with the flow, let my fingers hit the keys as fast as they can. And that’s pretty fast, actually. Around 80 words per minute. Last week, I spoke […]
You’re a self-published author. You need to take care of everything, at least handling the outsourcing of tasks. You write your books, you write your descriptions in the hope of selling your books. You create or order your covers. You advertise and use social media to spread the word about your books. Do You Really […]
When I first bumped into David in one of the fiction groups I was in, he asked all kinds of questions. Really beginner’s questions. But soon it was the rest of us asking him questions. What happened? David figured it out, that’s what. And since we kept asking him what he did, he decided to […]