By Milli Thornton I DON’T USE this blog for giving advice on how to get published. There’s tons of good advice out there and Fear of Writing is here to fill an entirely different niche. I’m also a self-published writer, so I don’t keep up with the trends. But something happened to me today that…
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The @IQOkie Debate
By guest blogger Tricia Sutton Rules, guidelines, and basic social media etiquette for aspiring authors do, for the most part, make a lot of sense. Like, why use a cat avatar if my book isn’t about cats? My future published book will not be written by IQOkie (which does represent my book), so why have…
Writers and the Fear of Egotistical Biographies
By guest blogger Natasha Tracy Hi. My name is Natasha and I am a writer. A simple sentence, I know, but one it took me years to say out loud. Even after writing thousands of posts, read by a myriad of people on weighty topics such as bipolar, depression and Justin Timberlake, it took my…
The Chair Without my Butt in It
Written By Karen Hogan Monday. I set myself the task of writing. There’s the novel, there’s the essay, there’s the blog, and the tweets. Gotta get the first draft of the novel done or I’ll never get to the second draft. Gotta get an essay done ‘cause that might be easier to get published, which…
Writer Discovered While Waitressing
By Milli Thornton One of my screenwriting idols is Diane Thomas. Back in the early 80’s, Diane pioneered a new genre—the action-adventure/comedy-romance—with her script for Romancing the Stone. Diane was waitressing when she had the opportunity to pitch her script to customer Michael Douglas, who proceeded to buy, produce and star in the film with…
