Celebrating Independent Authors
Writing advice and insights from the staff of Indies Unlimited.
Alex Canton-Dutaris looks at The Dark Side of the Mirror.
Carol Davis Luce gets her blog rolling. Go give her a welcome!
The always hilarious Carol Wyer looks a gift horse in the mouth.
The awesome Jim Devitt talks about his experience with Operation e-book Drop.
Our friend Yolanda Washington is gearing up for NaNoWriMo.
Get your free copy of Chicken Feed from Ellen Ghyll.
BuzzFeed brings you 14 punctutation marks you probably didn’t know about.
We continue our countdown to Halloween with more spooky exercises. Flex your scary-powerful writing muscles on this one:
You heard a noise down stairs! You are going to investigate. Tell me about the trip down these stairs. See if you can make my skin crawl with anticipation at what you’ll find below. . .
Today we will reverse the usual process. Instead of writing the book then selecting a cover, we’re going to pretend to write a book based on a cover image. The image to the left is your book cover. Based on the cover art, select a title for your book and write a blurb about the story for the back cover.
Most of all, have fun with it!
Your character is alone at night in the woods. Something terrible is about to happen. Are they being stalked? Are they about to make some gruesome discovery? Without telling me what happens, make my spine tingle and my skin crawl by setting the scene. Incorporating the image of the night sky through the naked tree branches, paint a scene that gets your reader prepared for coming terror.