My first novel is almost complete! I'm past the 50k word mark. My plan was to produce 12 chapter with each averaging 4500 words, and write 1 chapter a week. I wanted to finish it before November so I can write a new novel for nanowrimo. I've kept that very close to...
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Preparing for NaNoWriMo
November is National Novel Writer's Month. This year I'm considering taking the NaNoWriMo challenge: write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. That's almost 1700 words per day. To prepare, I've decided to write a specific word-count on a fiction story (most of my writing...
Business Test
One of my hobbies is developing business ideas. I'm very interested in starting a business, but I have trouble deciding what kind. I found an online test that I thought I'd share: Business Test I've taken this test twice. Once from the book (which I have on order) and...
Free Kindle Books About Writing
Amazon's Kindle platform is a great resource for books about writing. Here's a short list of good writing books that are free: And here are a few good books that are worth buying:
Available for preorder – Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, On Being a Christian by Bret Lott
All serious writers know that each word they write reveals something significant about their beliefs, something about their reason for creating, something about the one for whom they write. After all, writing lays bare the soul. Yet the work of a Christian artist is...
Niche Site Duel 2.0 – Choosing a Niche
For me, the hardest part of writing a book or building a niche site is choosing the topic. There are many techniques out there to help. Here's my method. First, I build a matrix in Excel. I will make headings across the top of categories that I want to compare. One...
Niche Site Duel 2.0 – Searching for Keywords with Long Tail Pro
I've been using the trial version of Long Tail Pro to find keywords that will help me find a niche for the niche site duel. I've found a keyword that I like. It's in a field that I have experience in. I've wanted to write a book about it for a while now. This tool...
Niche Site Duel 2.0
Non-fiction writers often write for specific niche's. For this reason, many non-fiction authors run niche sites. To help me choose niche's, and maybe even start my own niche site, I've decided to join Pat Flynn's Niche Site Duel 2.0. The project will take you through...
My Influences – Authors
There are many authors that have inspired me in my writing over the years. Here’s a short list of some that come to mind in no particular order. Isaac Asimov I loved the I Robot short stories when I was a teen. J. R. R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit are...