When Dialogue Gets Weird: Representing Unorthodox Forms of Speech on the Page (Text Conversations, Psychic Communication, etc)
When Dialogue Gets Weird: Representing Unorthodox Forms of Speech on the Page (Text Conversations, Psychic Communication, etc) Whether you’ve written any fiction yet or not, you’re probably extremely familiar with how dialogue appears on the page: it’s surrounded by...
Should You Write Faster? Here’s What Four Indie Authors Do (Plus My Take)
Should You Write Faster? Here’s What Four Indie Authors Do (Plus My Take) By a lot of people’s standards, I’m a pretty fast writer. For the last 12 years or so, I’ve been able to comfortably produce 1,000 words an hour (sometimes to the envy of writing group...
Marketing Your (Self-Published) Novel: Five Books Reviewed
Marketing Your (Self-Published) Novel: Five Books Reviewed Long-time Aliventures readers might remember that the first half of 2012 was a little hectic for me. I’d just launched my first novel, Lycopolis, and started Writers’ Huddle … and I had five months to...