We've covered a number of necessities to keep in mind when preparing to write, as well as during the writing process, many of which are relevant no matter which genre you are working in. One such essential is knowing your audience, which sounds like it would be a simple thing to do, right? Well, as … Continue reading How to Discover Your Audience | Helpful Tips
Genre: What Is It Exactly? | Helpful Tips
The word genre is used frequently these days, especially online. There’s talk of this book representing this genre and that story fitting neatly into that genre, and we find ourselves wondering what this genre thing is anyway. So, what do we do? We go online and perform a search of the word, because surely we’re … Continue reading Genre: What Is It Exactly? | Helpful Tips
Memoir Writing | Helpful Tips
Writing a memoir, as I’ve mentioned before, can be daunting—trying to wrangle together all of those pertinent memories and reduce them to a written form that, hopefully, does them justice, determining what should and, maybe more importantly, shouldn’t be included, and presenting it all in a way that is concise, precise, personable, and relatable. Just … Continue reading Memoir Writing | Helpful Tips