New Writer Tips

Tips and tools for new and established writers

  • New Writer Tips,  Vampire

    The Awakening Blog Tour : Tips on Editing #RLFblog #AmWriting #MFRWauthor

    An editor is a crucial piece of the publishing puzzle and your relationship can make or break a project. Don’t make the same mistakes I did.

    There is something to be said about the rush you get when you finally type the words “THE END” into a manuscript. You have put your heart and soul into the page and for me, it was like I finally reached the top of a mountain. Little did I know it was just the first plateau.

    I had been fortunate by this time to have worked with some of the best self-publishing authors in the business and knew that editing was going to be a beast. I was a first time author for goodness sake. I thought it would be perfect to team up with a good friend who wanted to get into editing. This played out like a bad horror movie where everyone could see the monster behind the curtain but you.

    I first want to go on record that the editor in question is an amazing editor. She really did help polish The Awakening into what it is today. Also, had I continued working with her it would probably be 1,000 times better. Yet, I know it would have lost the harried style that I was truly going for. We ultimately parted ways amicably and I shelved my book for four years because I lost all confidence in the project.

    Finally, I couldn’t stand seeing all the Facebook Memories showing me a project that I truly loved. I went through and got the story edited and finally pushed publish on it. I figure that it was never going to win a Pulitzer, but it is a fun addition to vampire lore that is worth telling.

    So what advice do I have for someone who is finishing up their novel?

    Do your research! Talk to your editor about what they like to read and do a first chapter edit. It gives both of you the opportunity to see if you want to work together.

    Remember that as a self-published author, you are the boss. Don’t let anyone discourage you from publishing if that is what you want to do.

    The editor is ultimately out to create the best version of the story. If you have done your research and know that they are a good fit, then trust what they are saying.

    The Awakening by JP Adkins

    What would you do if you found out you were genetically a Vampire? Would you embrace it or run? I have found that power is a strange
    thing – sometimes it pulls you into places you never knew you would go. I have done things that most have only dreamed of; ran through walls, jumped off buildings but it all seems like folly.
    I am what happens when genetics mutate, when the species collide, when the beauty can’t resist the beast. I can’t infect with my kiss, but I can awaken with my seed — if they are a mutation such as I.
    The Awakening Genre Paranormal
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
    Publisher: http://trueawesome.com/publishing
    Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34647318-the-awakening
    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XRFPLGX/
    Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/712655
    Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-awakening-jp-adkins/1126059455?ean=2940154080863
    iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-awakening/id1220166996?mt=11
    Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-awakening-192

    JP Adkins Social Media

    JP Adkins sees it as his mission in life to help you realize your dreams and to uplift your mood. He is a celebrated graphic ,web , and clothing designer, has helped many authors publish their books, and has recently published his first novel, The Awakening.

    JP Adkins gets pleasure in finding ways to make life more beautiful for himself and those around him. His dream is to travel the country writing inspirational stories and leading meditations wherever he goes. He believes too many times we allow ourselves to quit trying because we tell ourselves we don’t know how, we don’t have the money, and we aren’t good enough. He wants to inspire others to take the inspired action required to design their lives. In his quest to serve the world, he has taken the first steps in ordainment in the Order of the Jedi. You Are Loved!

  • New Writer Tips

    Reviewing Books, Yay or Nay? @mizging #Reviews #RLFblog

    Dancing Fawn 

    Author Ginger Simpson shares an opinion piece about reviewing books.

    Sometimes I wonder if as an author
    I should review the work of others. Before I was published, I read for the sheer
    enjoyment, but now, after going through so many editing sessions and being whipped
    into an actual author, I cannot read without my internal editor whispering in my
    ear. I read with an eye for pitfalls I’ve been advised to avoid rather than losing
    myself in the story as I once was able to do. Heck, before my debut novel, I hadn’t
    even heard half the terms I hear now–headhopping, passive voice, transitions, etc..
    Now the simplest mistakes keep me from really connecting with the characters. It
    could be that the books I read all those years had been finely edited so assuming
    a place in the heroine’s shoes came naturally.
    Don’t get me wrong. I think editors
    are an essential part of the process, and now when I read, I can definitely tell
    the novices from the professionals. Is it fair to report to readers that I’ve found
    areas in a story that should have been caught by an editor and the reader advised
    to fix? I’m not sure. Does it make me come across as a “know it all?”
    Trust me, I don’t. I learn a new rule every day, and the scary thing is that I’m
    never sure that the rule is hard and fast.
    It’s a fact that the majority of editors
    working in small press are authors as well, and possibly some that haven’t been
    writing very long themselves. Could it be they are just passing along what they’ve
    learned? I’ve found that some of what I’ve been told isn’t exactly true, but I think
    some of the examples I can share with you today make sense. For example: Overusing
    He/She if you’ve made it clear whose POV your in at the moment. Read these two paragraphs
    and see which sounds more polished.
    John smelled Joan’s perfume as she
    twirled by him on the dance floor. He envied the man who held her in his arms. He
    believed she was the most beautiful woman in the room, and he vowed to ask her to
    dance the next time the orchestra played a slow song. He intended to be the one
    to take her home tonight.
    John inhaled the sweet smell of Joan’s
    perfume as she twirled by him on the dance floor. The man who held her in his arms
    was one lucky guy. Before the evening ended, John intended to share a slow dance
    with her, and if his prayers were answered, he’d be the one to take her home.
    See, you don’t need he envied, he
    believed, he intended. You’ve let the reader know by John enjoying the aroma of
    Joan’s perfume that we’re in his POV, so anything you type should be interpreted
    as his perspective.
    Another pet peeve are needless tags.
    It’s always best to use an action tag in place of he said, she said, but if you
    end the dialogue with a question mark, do you really need to say, she asked? I think
    the punctuation is a big hint. *smile* When only two people are in the room, using
    the character’s names over and over becomes redundant. The reader is usually smart
    enough to determine who is talking, and if you need to clarify, you can say something
    like: “Are you crazy?” John’s eyes widened beneath a furrowed brow.
    Editors become very important in keeping
    the redundancy out of the story line. Authors don’t usually write an entire book
    in one setting, so it’s very hard to remember everything you’ve already written.
    For example: If you’ve pointed out to the reader that the heroine broke her leg
    by falling off a horse, it isn’t necessary to repeat that information again in dialogue
    with someone and then add it in a descriptive paragraph pages later. Readers, me
    included, roll their eyes and say, “enough already…I know, I know.”
    Since I don’t plot my stories and
    find my memory isn’t what it used to be, I’ve taken to making notes about the physical
    attributes of my characters. It’s quite easy to describe sky blue eyes in one chapter
    and chocolate brown in another further down the line. Unless you’re writing from
    the perspective of an Australian Shepherd, both eyes should be the same color and
    remain that way throughout the story.
    As an historical author, I learned
    long ago, and I’m still learning, that you really need to be on guard to assure
    your language is appropriate for the period about which you write. I’ve read some
    love scenes lately that left me shaking my head because of the present day terminology
    used for body parts. It’s really not believable that an Indian brave would bust
    out with the word “clitoris.”
    I’ve found the online Etymology dictionary
    most helpful in determining the origin of most words, but judgement helps too. Think
    about your story’s time period and how people spoke. While you might find word origins
    described from the 1500s, that doesn’t mean they were used all over the globe. Example:
    Ma/Maw/Momma is how a child addressed their female parent rather than just Mom in
    1840. Although “kid” has been a word for a long time, the manner in which
    it was used in the 1800s most often referred to a baby goat. Children were not kids,
    but you could kid with them (tease). Historical credibility is all a matter of knowing
    your time period and doing your research. Trust me, if you make a mistake, someone
    will notice and let you know.

    My most recent editor pointed out
    her amazement that my heroine still had a bottom lip as she constantly chewed on
    it. *lol* It’s so easy to utilize the same action without realizing you’ve overdone
    it. Here again, that’s because we don’t write books in one sitting nor do we usually
    go back and re-read the previous chapters. Thank God for those who devote their
    time and talents to making us stop and think about our writing habits. What would
    we do without our editors…internal and external?

    Reviewing Books, Yay or Nay? by Ginger Simpson was first blogged here and is used with permission.

    Buy This Book

    Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Fawn-Ginger-Simpson-ebook/dp/B0153LGPYK/ 

    About the Author

    Ginger Simpson — Writing with a dream for bigger and better
    things.

  • New Writer Tips

    Wanted: Romance Characters. Wounded Hero Apply Within @romancebysusan #RLFblog

    Girls’ Night Out 

    Welcome to RLF! Today’s guest post is by Susan Arden / Susan D Taylor.

    It’s business as usual in writing
    scorching romance. I power up the computer, drum my fingers, and
    inhale. Time to find “him” and “her.” How about this time I
    hand over the reins to you to locate a pair of lovers? Would you start with
    an open casting call in which you hang a sign: hot men and women need apply?
    Writing a romance requires that an
    author open their heart and imagination in the creation of a pair of lovers. In
    order for the lovers to exist within a story, I need a hook that gets me thinking…excited.
    As a writer of nuclear heat-level romance, I begin with a visualization of a plot
    line that begins in a physical spot. A church parking lot, a ranch, a stadium. Someplace
    where two people might meet and fall in love. But that isn’t the place where the
    story begins. It’s a trajectory point where I aim, more than likely a place about
    sixty-percent of the way through the book where the characters hang out.
    Once I get a feel for where the characters
    and I are headed, I throw open the doors and the casting call begins and that means
    it’s time to dig deep into their lives. The expectation for romance stories is that
    these contain people who have attributes such as beauty, wit, strength, charisma
    as well as a host of other attractive characteristics that are displayed throughout
    the story—sky is the limit. But alas, every author knows that in loving our creations,
    we must do our writer duty in our creating reflections of humanity by making them
    human. And as humans, our lovers must have flaws.
    So in writing, I draw from what I
    know and as a past educator, I draw heavily on my education and classroom where
    I had the honor and pleasure to spend my days with funny, energetic, sensitive,
    stubborn students who were as varied the colors of the rainbow. But the one characteristic
    they and I shared is we are learners…people who learn differently. I taught special
    education and ironically have ADHD and facets of dyslexia. I understand what it
    means to be reduced to a statistic and boxed into a category. Learners with special
    needs require supports to actualize strengths to compensate for “things”
    we don’t do so well. I can’t tell right from left, but instinctively know cardinal
    direction regardless of where I’m at. I can do simple math like a calculator but
    can’t understand high order math. I need to use a computer over pen and paper. I
    read chunks of information but can’t read word for word. Numerical order and word
    order are atypical or are repeated in the wrong order unless I close my eyes and
    read from the picture in my mind.
    In this go round in Girls’ Night Out
    (GNO), I wanted to have a character who reflected those I know. Brett Gold has dysgraphia,
    a form of dyslexia, and this helped to balance out extreme strength. Brett became
    the hero with a wound (i.e., wounded hero archetype) in which that “flaw”
    would affect him starting at a very young age. The hero in GNO had the love of a
    parent to help him have the confidence to keep striving rather than to become embittered.
    His dyslexia would give him perspective, frustrating him at times, but widen his
    horizon to understand the suffering of others. Like the saying goes; bamboo is strong
    for it bends in the whipping wind where an oak may crack in a strong storm.
    So, in Girls’ Night Out the heroine, Cory
    McLemore, is young and struggling to find her footing away from her over-protective
    family when she encounters a man who seems to have the world by the tail. Brett
    Gold, an NFL tight end isn’t the persona that he and the pro ball profession projects.
    This is part sports romance and Western, and like any creature who bucks, there’s
    a time for a heavy hand and there’s a time for giving some space, and that’s what
    Brett does for Cory. There is spanking as this is an erotic romance and is utilized
    by Brett with Cory in establishing structure. Yet Brett is more than the typical
    alpha, he understands his lover’s need to find her authentic self where she requires
    his support to allow her the opportunity to stretch her wings.
    In writing the strong, capable hero,
    a flaw of a disability such as learning difference can humanize someone who otherwise
    might come off more like a God than a good guy, sweet enough to bring home to meet
    mom and dad.
    Namaste.

    Buy This Book

    Girls’ Night Out ~ A Bad Boys novel (Book 4)

    Books Coming Soon

    In Sweetest Curse, another type of disability is addressed: Undine’s
    Curse. Stay tuned for that release coming in March 2014.
    Double Trouble ~ A Bad Boys novel (Book 5) March 2014 Release

    Learning Disabilities

    For more information on learning disabilities, please visit The
    National Center for Learning Disabilities http://ncld.org

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  • New Writer Tips

    Chris Redding’s Author Rock Stars @chrisredding #RLFblog

    Most people know about rock stars and have their favorites. I
    have mine, but they are not in the music business. My rock stars are in the publishing
    business. All of them are writers and for one reason or another they inspire me.

    Bob Mayer

    He’s been traditionally published and self-published and runs
    a publishing company that is more of a partnership with the author. He’s taken the
    new frontier of publishing and made it his own. What does he preach? Content is
    king. Write a good book. Then write the next good book. A former Green Beret, he
    uses the skills he learned in special forces to make his company and his brand successful.
    Read his blog, Write it Forward.

    JA Konrath

    Another author who has been traditionally and self-published.
    Of course he came to self-publishing with an audience already, but he often highlights
    authors on his blog, The Newbie’s Guide to Publishing, who have been successful
    at self-publishing without having his advantages. He also give back to the community.
    He challenge his readers to write a book and publish it in 24 hours and he then
    highlighted all those books on his blog. A write can also use on of his characters
    to write a book and if he accepts it, he will edit and publish it at his expense
    with both his name and the writer’s name. That is quite a boost for anyone willing
    to do it.

    Victoria Strauss

    Victoria
    is a founding member of Writer Beware. As long as there have been aspiring writers,
    there have scams. Writer Beware is there to inform about them. With more and more
    authors going the self-publishing route, Writer Beware’s services are needed even
    more. Unscrupulous companies being bought by legitimate publishers has led to a
    blurring of the lines between good business and bad. Writer Beware is there to save
    us all from our desperation to see our books in print.

    Melissa Foster

    World Literary Café is website that all indie and traditionally
    published authors can benefit from and it was started by Melissa. The site offers
    paid advertising, some free advertising and, among other things, Tweet Teams, where
    an author can help others tweet items in return for getting retweeted.

    Kayelle Allen

    Founder of the Yahoo Group Marketing for Romance Writers, Kayelle
    has expanded it to include a blog and a newsletter both of which offer opportunities
    for writers to get exposure. The group also has lots of discussions about marketing
    which is a topic for every author.
    If you as a writer are unfamiliar with any of these authors or
    sites, you should acquaint yourself now. Your career will benefit from it.
    Thanks for having me today.
    Cmr

    Available Books

    Which Exit Angel
    She’s a homicide detective and and angel who hasn’t earned her
    wings. She’s sent down to investigate a murder at the Jersey Shore.
    He’s a preacher questioning his faith. How are these two supposed to stop the impending
    apocalypse? http://amzn.com/B00D1TPXZY
    Along Came Pauly
    A contemporary romance about a dog that brings two people together
    who don’t want to be. She’s a vegetarian veterinarian who needs cash for a no-kill
    shelter. He’s the heir to a hot dog fortune who must give away money before he gains
    his inheritance. Sounds like a perfect match. It isn’t. http://amzn.com/B00EN33QNI

    About the Author

    Chris Redding lives in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, one dog
    and three rabbits. She graduated from Penn State
    with a degree in journalism. When she isn’t writing, she works for her local hospital. Her books are filled with romance, suspense and thrills.

    Author Social Media

  • New Writer Tips

    Sometimes Writing Can be Like Pulling Teeth #Writing #Blogging @Selena_Illyria #RLFblog

    Hidden Diversions

    Romance Lives Forever welcomes
    Selena Illyria to the blog for an article on writing and writer’s block. This article
    could have come from my own heart – after reading it, I felt I knew my friend Selena
    much better. If you’re a writer, you owe it to yourself to read this. If you’re
    a reader, this might make you appreciate writers a little bit more.
    I’ve been
    meaning to write this blog for quite some time but something or other always came
    up. Over the past few months I’ve been having computer issues so that didn’t help.
    Those issues made both editing and writing difficult. I was in panic mode during
    those times; it was a fight to get in every edit or finish a sentence. After I turned
    in my edits, which was a relief, I still had a book to finish but soon it became
    evident that my old laptop wasn’t up to the task. Recently, I was able to get a
    new laptop that would allow me to continue with writing and other things, which
    was a relief. That sentiment didn’t last long.
    As I waded
    back into the world of writing it became clear that I was in trouble. For weeks
    I’d been going around in manic mode to get things done. And once my edits were done,
    I started to seep into depression with every day that I didn’t get to write or I
    didn’t get to write enough. That depression turned to anger and stress. I became
    mired in frustration at my inability to get anything done. I thought that getting
    a new computer would help with all those emotions. It didn’t.
    Now I
    was in a new form of hell. One where every word was like pulling teeth or mucking
    through molasses. No word was right or enough. I found myself falling backward into
    old bad habits that I’d been trying to break after my burnout a year before. I became
    angry at myself, frustrated that it wasn’t as easy at it once was. That my mind,
    fingers and brain didn’t seem to want to cooperate or work with each other like
    they used to. Even though I knew I couldn’t go back, I still wanted to recapture
    that hubristic little shit that I was when I first started. When you finish your
    first book and get it published you’re on a high. You can do anything, write anything.
    Book after book can pour out of you like water. Phrases like writer’s block or burnout
    don’t even apply. They’re like distant lands you’ll never visit and have no intention
    of stopping in, not even for a moment. Those two things would never happen to you,
    because you’re kick-ass, you’re made of so much awesome sauce that it comes out
    of your pores.
    Yeah right.
    Then they both come and you get your ass handed to you, even if it’s temporary or
    lasts longer than a week or month. The first time burnout happened to me, I needed
    a few weeks to recover. Then those periods lasted longer and longer until it seem
    never-ending. Now, I find myself in a new kind of Hades, one where I can finally
    write but the words aren’t coming. Everything I put down sucks and my internal editor
    is playing kickball with every sentence, comma, and my confidence.
    The one
    thing you never truly understand until you become a writer is that it’s truly a
    solitary career. No one else can write what you write. Your editors can clean up
    your work, improve your voice, and your publishers can put out your books, but in
    the end, they can’t write them for you. They don’t have your voice or vision or
    phrasing. You can write with a partner but you still have to pull your own weight.
    And none of those people can give you confidence when you fall down or start to
    wonder how you could ever have gotten published in the first place. Things get doubled
    or tripled if you have people in your life that question why you write or make you
    feel like crap because you don’t have “a real job.”
    After
    much wallowing, hiding in reading “comfort books” and pretending that
    I’d get to writing the next day, eventually I had to stop hiding. So, I opened my
    story and got back to work. Unfortunately I’d ended with a sex scene. Nothing says
    sexy like depression. *rolls eyes* And that’s when the self-doubt and self-hatred
    started. Writing the sex scene was painful and I’m still not done with it. Nothing
    about it screamed emotional or enticing. I had to stop before I sabotaged myself,
    but I still had to write. So, I put away that story, for now, to try a palate cleanser,
    to write something that wasn’t contracted and something that wasn’t paranormal (which
    the other story was). It wasn’t perfect, if an editor saw it there would be lots
    of knuckle wrapping and tsk, tsk, tsking, but in the end I’d written something,
    anything and it was pretty good. I had accomplished something.
    Recovering
    from all the pain, heartache, self-doubt, frustration, writer’s block, and writer’s
    fear will take time, and baby steps. But in the end I am a writer and damn it, this
    is what I’m meant to do. Even if it is painful, it’s my job and I love it even if
    it can be a pain in the ass at times. Also, I know that I’ll make it through this
    patch because I’m surrounded by awesome people. One more thing: I’m stubborn.
    For more information about
    Selena’s latest release:
    Blurb:
    Their passion may be the
    death of them…
    Werewolf Chief of Police
    Torger, is running into walls while tracking the Draven’s Crossing serial killer.
    No matter what he tries to do, he can’t find the clues needed to stop the terror
    that stalks the streets of his city. Things aren’t helped by his attraction to the
    dragon shifter and Draven City News Reporter, Isadora Jones. With political pressure
    and bodies mounting, can he get through all these distractions and find the truth
    before it’s too late?
    Reporter Isadora Jones wants
    to help with the investigation into the serial killer but Torger refuses to let
    her. She decides to do it on her own, but her world goes upside down when the killer
    sets his sights on her. Under Torger’s protection, they start to put the pieces
    together but will it be too late for them?
    Things go from bad
    to worse when another killer appears. Draven’s Crossing just got a whole lot more
    dangerous.
    Buy Links:
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  • New Writer Tips

    5 Top Tax Tips for Writers @emlynley #taxtips #taxes #RLFblog

    Tax Tips for Authors.

    Romance Lives
    Forever welcomes author EM Lynley back to the blog. As a tax preparer, she has
    a good insight into what authors need this time of year. Here are her top five
    tips to us.

    As both a
    romance writer, and a tax preparer, I know exactly the worries and frustrations
    my fellow authors go through every year. If 
    you use tax prep software, you’re never sure what’s allowed or where on
    Schedule C to put the cost of your website and cover art–or you pay through
    the nose for an accountant to do your return. Kayelle asked me to offer a few
    tips to help you feel a little more confident about your taxes, whether this
    year as you rush to finish by April 15, or pick up some advice to help you out
    when you file next year.

    1. You can
    write off that whip you bought while researching your BDSM story! There’s quite
    a bit of latitude for authors to deduct research expenses. Just ask yourself:
    “Would I buy this if I weren’t writing a story about X?” If not, then it’s a
    legit research expense. I write off reference books, library fines on research
    books, and trips to visit a location. I even wrote off some wine I bought while
    writing a novel about a winemaker. You can also deduct some of the fiction you
    buy, if you call it market research. Just don’t abuse that one. If you make
    $500 on writing and spend $1000 on books for “research” you’ll find it
    difficult to defend if the IRS asks any questions.

    2. Document,
    document, document. This is the magic word for the IRS. Keep records of
    everything you buy or spend related to your writing business. You can do a
    spreadsheet or write notes in a desk calendar. If the IRS happens to audit your
    return, they’ll require this level of documentation, even if you don’t have
    original receipts. You can even show them the scribbles in your calendar.

    3. Other
    deductions you might have missed: swag for conventions, fees for online
    classes, contest entry fees, airfare and hotel for conventions, mileage for
    trips to the library, bookstore, stock photos for cover art, your domain name,
    RWA meetings (and the fees!), membership fees for any and all author
    organizations. If you bought it for promotion, report it as
    “advertising” expense. Anything that doesn’t fit into a standard category
    on Schedule C goes as “Other.” Just document how the item was used
    for business purposes: “RWA dues and meeting expenses” or “Books for research.”

    4. Even
    unpublished authors can take these deductions. If you had expenses in 2012, but
    your book won’t be released until 2013, you can and should file Schedule C to
    get the deductions for 2012. Don’t worry about a loss on your business return,
    as long as 3 out of 5 years show a profit, the IRS won’t question the
    occasional loss. And you can’t take the deductions in a later year, only the
    year you actually spent the money.

    5. Missed some
    of these deductions? If you’ve already filed, but didn’t take as many
    deductions as you’re legitimately entitled to, it’s not too late. You can file
    an amended return. It’s  a correction to
    the original, and if you are owed an additional refund, or have a smaller
    balance due than on your original return, the IRS will send you the difference.

    6. Bonus tip:
    Like most of you, I get paid from many publishers through PayPal. I signed up
    for a PayPal debit card, which I use for as many of my expenses as possible, so
    I can keep personal and business expenses separate. Only use this card for
    business expenses, and pay for personal items only from your personal bank
    account or credit card. This will help with recordkeeping. Then, at the end of
    the year, print out the statement and make a note what each item was for. Save
    that with your return in case two years from now the IRS asks you to
    substantiate a particular item. You won’t necessarily remember later on.

    I teach an
    online course each spring, covering these topics and a lot more. I do a
    line-by-line Schedule C walkthrough and home office deductions, and explain
    self-employment taxes as well as the dreaded estimated quarterly tax payments. The
    course content is also available in a book, Tax Tips for Authors,
    from Amazon
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