Is your sense of humor clinically dead?
Where do authors find the fun stuff? Not the puns and jokes, which also may have a small part in your narrative, but which never go above second-class humor. No. I’m talking about natural, unintended
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Will we continue keeping track of time in space?
When Albert Einstein proved everything is relative, and time is not absolute but varies wildly depending on your speed, the level of space curvature and the lecturer’s tone of voice, everybody applied it to all
How to Make an Author Page on Facebook
All authors have an author page on Facebook, or so you’ve heard. So you wanna make one too, right? But how? Yes, I know there’s a “create page” button right there, silly. That is not
Speech Verbs and Dialogue tags
He said, she said…a dialogue which runs short on speech verbs quickly becomes dull and repetitive. When in that magic condition of creative flow, we only marginally pay attention to the tags, the part of
TOP TEN FACEBOOK GROUPS FOR WRITERS
One of the first things I was told when I embarked upon the highly disreputable endeavor of promoting one’s own books was “Join some of the Facebook groups for writers”. That I did. Joined a
Cinematic Book Trailers
(on a budget) WARNING: In this article I showcase two book trailers I made. I think they’re pretty awesome and above the average self-made material out there. Despite the evident awesomeness, the objective of this
Confessions of a failed planner
First of all: I am a pantser, at heart. More specifically, I am a failed planner. I try to plan the whole story, but as soon as I create the characters, they handcuff me to
How to Murder your Villains with Style
Always keep your pencil well sharpened. Books and films have their wonderful, intense moments: the long-awaited kiss, the revelation of the hero’s true calling, the power of friendship which overcomes insurmountable difficulties. But we all
Paying Facebook for page likes?
Yeah I flushed some money down the toilet too. Turns out paying Facebook for page likes is not going to get you many REAL likes. You’re an indie author. You heard someone talking about building
So you wanna write Sci-Fi?
Science! Spaceships robots and time-travel! That’s what science fiction is all about, right? One of the top 5 best selling genres in the world, and all you need is your imagination! You can write about