by Clarissa | Jan 30, 2019 | Self publishing, writing
So, you’ve finished your draft and done some editing on it, what’s next? Before you publish it you should have some other people read it and give you comments. These can either be beta readers or critique partners. I’ll go through the differences...
by Clarissa | Jan 28, 2019 | family, personal, writing
I have to put my hand up and admit that I love spreadsheets. I use them for all sorts of things: recording who we send Christmas cards to each year, managing our family finances, outlining my next book, planning the edits to the last one. They are such a useful tool...
by Clarissa | Jan 23, 2019 | writing |
Have you ever held onto a secret you’ve been dying to share, and then finally…you can? For the last few weeks I’ve been helping Angela and Becca at Writers Helping Writers keep a BIG secret…what the next book in their thesaurus series will be....
by Clarissa | Jan 7, 2019 | writing
So, a new year has just started, and it’s time to look back over what I’ve achieved with my short stories. I published four, two weeks apart between Thanksgiving and New Year. Publicity and promotion is hard. Most of the time I felt like I was shouting...
by Clarissa | Jan 3, 2019 | writing |
One of the most useful questions to a writer is the question, “what if”. What if the world was green, or vampires were real, or you could travel through time. The whole of fiction is based on asking how things would work if the way the world works was...
by Clarissa | Dec 31, 2018 | personal, writing
My goals for 2018 were: focus on writing improve daily routines look after me talk to friends My writing has gone well, although I haven’t hit the target of 1000 words a day over the year, I have written more than I did last year. I’ve also edited a series...
