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Readers’ Excellent Responses

Great comments from beta readers—what a rush!

Scrivener - Adding a Map to Front Matter

Step-by-step instructions for adding a map (or any other content) to the front matter of your Scrivener project

Adding 6 Beta Readers!

Adding more beta readers, yeah!

Cleared the Edits

Powered through all issues so far. Whew!

Best Beta?

2.5 hour discussion with beta reader…here’s how that went…

Title and Tagline

The limitations of being original include other people being original before you…sheesh!

Short: Never Play Trivia with My Mother

Theater of the Mind: Alexiri’s War

You Need Writing Glasses

If you use glasses for reading, read this.

Voice and Status

No doubt the world would be a better place if people stopped worrying about class, but since class and status are real, it’s something we need to be conscious of in our writing, especially dialog…

Random Reading At Age Ten

Throw It Away

Begin With(out) Fear

Photo: Alexa Gorn/Unsplash It can be scary to start something. Not always, but sometimes. Here’s one way to think it through…

Marketing Avoidance

On avoiding marketing your book and the universe still getting its way

The Power of Napping

The shower was always my holy place for writing. That was where the engine of creation purred loudest…