by Joel Friedlander | Oct 5, 2011 | Self-Publishing, Writing
Today I’m pleased to have an article by Victoria Mixon (@VictoriaMixon), an editor, writer, and the blogger behind A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, one of WritetoDone.com’s Top 10 Blogs for Writers. Here, in an excerpt from her new book, The Art & Craft of...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 26, 2010 | Social Media, Writing
November is a month of traditions, more than most months. We’ve got football, homecoming, Thanksgiving holidays and the beautiful fall colors, not to mention election day. But for the last 11 years, we have a new November tradition: National Novel Writing Month...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 23, 2010 | Writing
For two years I wrote with a few other writers every Thursday evening. We were taught, and then continued on our own, with the practice of freewriting. Over the months, it became apparent that to keep out of patterns, to keep our inspiration fresh, we had to use...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 15, 2010 | Editorial, Writing
There are lots of different kinds of author blogs, just as there are lots of kinds of authors. And there are many ways for authors to approach blogging as part of building an author platform. For instance, you can write a blog: that’s a personal communication...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 27, 2010 | Reviews, Writing
Remember the time before Windows? Back in the dawn of word processing software—before everyone used MS Word—there was heated discussion about which kind of tool produced better writing. Was it the character-mode screen, like you got with Word Perfect? A...
