Welcome back to another Monday Marketing post. Today I’m going to talk about why I think you should be creating Book Aesthetics for your stories (and not just because they are so much fun).
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GP: How you get your creative ideas by Pearl R Meaker
This week’s guest post is my friend and author, the lovely Pearl R Meaker. Yes, Pearl has once again agreed to write for my blog and I love having her here. Enjoy!
What is your responsibility as a writer?
Hello 2018: The “No Excuses” Year
As my last post of 2017 was a wrap up of the year, let’s make my first post of 2018 goals for what I want to achieve this year.
11 questions most writers hate being asked
Writers often get asked questions when people find out we write. Some questions are okay, some are understandable and some are down right annoying. These are all questions I’ve been asked at one time or another. o.O
Guest Post: “Love, twue love”
Today we welcome back to this blog the wonderful Pearl R Meaker, author of the Emory Crawford Mysteries. Enjoy!
“Love, twue love.”
by Pearl R Meaker
This blog is being posted on February 14, 2017 – my 41st wedding anniversary. Still happily married after all these years.
Today is the “love holiday” and, like the movie “The Princess Bride” from which I borrowed my title, most stories have love in them somewhere along the way.
It might be love done well, or love gone wrong. Maybe love long lost and mourned, or love that is being newly sought. It can even be all of the above and more.
It may even be the self-love of the narcissist or someone who is in love with money or some other inanimate object.
Love is usually in there somewhere if only because love is in most of us. We can relate to love.
But what do you, as a writer, intend to do with love? The answer to that depends on the sort of book you’re writing, your characters and you.
It’s time to commit to being creative
We all have those moments, lingering senses of stagnation or apathy. The best way to get through them is to release your creativity. Everyday!
Repost: Balance writing and life
Old post RE-POSTED because I need the reminder and it’s a good thing to think about as we are all seemingly getting busier.
One (of the many) areas that can make a writer struggle is the intolerable attempts at trying to balance your writing life with…well everything else. Those of us destined to be writers often find ourselves swamped by ideas, scenes, snippets of dialogue and sometimes a full-on deluge of thought-strands that desperately need to be woven together into a story.
Normally this would be great, a fun time had by all (with the occasion crying and screaming moments as happens with us creative types). However that pesky thing called “Life” tends to jam its way into our writing time (since we consider ALL time writing time) and there we stumble.
If you are a writer stressing about finding time, about finding that perfect balance, that method of juggling both writing and life with all its favours, then you are not alone!
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Guest Post: Be afraid to give up, not to fail
This week’s guest post is the wonderful Wilmar, author of The Silver Ninja series. I am very pleased to have Wilmar guesting on this blog as very early on when I started The Eternal Scribbler blog, he reached out and sent me a very kind and supportive message which meant a lot, especially as I had been struggling and was not even sure if I should keep the blog going.
This will actually be a 2 parter post as Wilmar also answered some interview questions and I’ll be posting them tomorrow, so do check back!
Be afraid to give up, not to fail
by Wilmar Luna
The thing author’s chase most, is often the same thing which paralyzes them into inaction. Perfection. When we don’t achieve perfection, when every sentence, every scene, every conflict is dripping with mediocrity, we surrender.
“I know that this scene has a strong emotional moment, but I don’t know how to write it.” When we cannot find the words to elicit the emotion we want in a scene, a character, a moment, we feel like what?
How to stay focused when story ideas invade
I’ve talked about ideas before – you may remember my Song of the Muses post. However I want to discuss the invasion of stories.
