Learning how to write emotions was one of the hardest skills I had to learn as a writer, and something I’m still trying to improve on. (Sadly, statements like “Mary felt afraid” are actually terrible at showing Mary’s fear.) Finding Your Sense of Place by Janni Simner focuses specifically on how to use setting and description […]
The Steel and Bone anthology will be released on Saturday, and in addition to pre-ordering the book, you can enter a Rafflecopter giveaway with a lot of awesome giveaways (free books, a ThinkGeek giftcard, and more!). While you’re waiting, here’s an excerpt of my contribution to Steel and Bone, “The Clockwork Seer,” and my Character Casting. […]
There’s a pretty standard consensus that organic search accounts for between 50 and 64% of website visits (the exact figure depends on the study’s approach). Search engines–including Google, Yahoo, and Bing–are the biggest driver of traffic on the web. If you’re blogging or creating an author website, you need to make it possible for people to find […]
Andy Warhol talked about “15 minutes of fame,” and that’s what happens to most content posted on author websites or blogs. An author writes a blog post and shares it with her communities. It may have a bit of success, but then it disappears into the billions of pages on the Internet, never to be seen again. But […]
I don’t normally think of myself as a writer of LDS fiction, but I do occasionally write short LDS stories. I have two that have recently been published. “Yongrui and the Tree of Life” “Yongrui and the Tree of Life” is a story about sickness and healing, faith and art. It combines Chinese and Garden […]