How To Choose A Cover Artist
Eventually, you’re going to need a cover artist. You’re going to need a creative visual for the front of your work, be it a short story, a novel, or something else. Visuals grab people’s attention and draw them to what the words inside might say. So how on earth do…
How I Design My Book Covers
So you’ve done it. After laborious hours and a lot of cups of tea, you’ve made it to the end of your book and you’re ready to start thinking about what you want for your cover. (Or, if you’re anything like me, you’ve been thinking about what your cover will…
How I Revise My Rough Drafts
So your rough draft is finished, and you’re wondering how in the hell you get this book into better shape. Maybe you just finished NaNoWriMo, or are gearing up for the completion of your own manuscript. Or maybe you’ve had one done for a while, and are intimidated by the…
How Do You Write Descriptions?
Full transparency, in my rough drafts, most my descriptions are vague shorthands for myself and myself only. Because descriptions can be difficult for me to get right, I tend to leave them for my second drafts, where I can properly go through the steps I take to make sure a…
How To Write What You Know
I’ve seen a lot of contention over this phrase in the writing community for years, and I wanted to share my own understanding of it, and how I apply it to my own writing about a scifi war, when I’ve never been in war or (shockingly) into space. Write What…