Writing Tips, Tricks, Thoughts & Book News Blog - by Robert D. McAdams

2020-06-02
Learn About Story Structure From A Master June 7th 2020 14:00 - 17:00 PDT If you are an author wondering why your stories are being rejec...
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2019-09-17
"I cannot emphasize enough that you need to engage; it's social media, not here-take-this-content-and-then-I'm-going-to-turn-the-other-wa...
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2019-09-16
"Take 10% of the time it took you to write your book, and apply that to getting a business partner, which is really what an agent is." --...
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2019-07-31
I wrote a guest article about computer science for Lisa over at her Holistic Fox creative website. The article covers common scenarios wr...
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2019-07-29
You can win a full manuscript critique (up to 100K words) from Michele Sagan (@michele_sagan)! To enter simply send us a science fiction,...
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2019-07-22
Sergeant Rogers is one of the three Marines in my novel, DISOBEDIENT INTELLIGENCE, keeping my main character, Aila Solas, alive. Rogers, ...
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2019-07-16
Sergeant Saitō Taya is one of the three Marines in my novel, DISOBEDIENT INTELLIGENCE, who is keeping my main character, Aila Solas, aliv...
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2019-06-28
I recently had questions about how wise it would be for me to try to sell some short stories to magazines set in the same universe as my ...
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2019-06-14
Part of the advice I got from the San Francisco Writers Conference was to make my author website more visual. When I first put it up most...
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2019-06-14
I have been posting the teaser images for my new cover artwork all over social media this week. I wanted to go ahead and put the teasers ...
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2019-06-11
Viewpoint Characters In Fiction The viewpoint character (or point-of-view character, A.K.A. the POV character) is the source of the story...
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2019-06-02
Today's editing tips to help writers self-edit will be about... Active Vs. Passive Voice If you have ever participated in a writing works...
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