Free Book Trailer & Evolution of Author’s Voice

Compelling articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers who  have either created the articles or shared them from their perusal of the internet.  This week’s top four: How I Made My Book Trailer in One Hour, for Free   By Ellis Shuman How to […]

Find Article Ideas in Pinterest; and DIY Trailers

    Compelling articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers who  have either created the articles or shared them from their perusal of the internet.  This week’s top four: Using Pinterest to Find Article Topics            Fresh ideas 4 […]

Sheepdog Mentality and The Unimportance of Inspiration

 From my daily copy of Paper.li , I choose four articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers. These followers have either created the articles or they have shared them from their perusal of the internet. In any case, what results is a short list […]

Fly Fishermen and Comics in Education

Twitter or Facebook? What’s Better For Authors?     What Do You Think? Fly-fishing: An Addiction           Like A River Runs Through It? Visual Writing Meets Note Taking    Comics in Education If you like this post please consider subscribing.  From my daily copy of Paper.li ,  I choose four articles from diverse content sources the […]

Magic Lego Movies and Escaping the Midwest

Women in peacekeeping     Women in the UN Peacekeeping Role Escaping the Midwest          Yes, there is a midwest sensibility Why THE LEGO MOVIE works like magic      Effective Animation World War One: Family stories uncovered         Touching WWI If you like this post please consider subscribing.  From […]

New Calibre Features and A Scary Spacewalk

Against Sending Your Blog Readers on a Space Walk w/o a Tether    Watch those links Calibre 1.27 eBook Reader, Editor, and Library Manager Gets Major Improvements      Helpful Over 75% Of Your Blogs Visitors Will Never Return: Here’s What To Do About It     Good Advice How to Be Creative in 5 Steps […]

Slangy Characters and Tweeting Like a Boss

Do You Know the Real Problem With Slangy Characters?    Sage advice 10 Benefits Of Rejection     Buck up Teens Taught Me These 4 Critical Social Media Lessons       Out of the Mouths of Teens How to Tweet Like a Boss: Twitter Persona Worksheet     Twitter Tips If you like this post […]

Knotty Heroines and Bending Vincent’s Ear

I Hate Your Book Blurb     Constructive Criticism What Vincent van Gogh Taught Me About Plagiarism     Van Gogh the Copyist? First Meeting Between Adult Daughter and her Birth Father    Split at the Root Want to Try Something Knotty? Five Helpful Knots to Save Your Heroine’s Life      Learning the Ropes […]

Fawlty Towers and Papa Hemingway

An app to help you write like Hemingway   – Did Papa know what an app is? An Anthropologist Walks into a Bar…    More Good Stuff From Harvard Business Review Get More Traffic to your Blog with Blog Pinging    What’s Blog Pinging? If you like this post please consider subscribing.  From my daily […]

David Gordon’s Excellent Japanese Adventure

David Gordon is the author of  two novels and a collection of short stories, “White Tiger on Snow Mountain” coming out this fall.  His writing career is off the ground but  until a little while ago not exactly soaring.  Suddenly all kinds of good once in a lifetime things began to happen to David.  I’ll […]