Inspiration

Planning your nonfiction writing project — including drafting a purpose statement, mapping out the structure, and using proven storytelling techniques — are critical parts of the writing process.

The list of notable authors, writers, publishers, and contributors to the written word who passed last year is far longer than anything we could include in one blog post, but let's take a moment to recognize 12 authors who died in 2017.

Whether you complete 500 or 50,000 words in 30 days, you owe it to your Self to see your words through in a process that leaves you feeling accomplished and alive.

Rhythm in writing can be hard to define, but the cadence of your story can help pull readers in and make the experience immersive. Try these ideas to help you find your groove. As a...

While there is no common definition of great, all great books have the common feature of lacking content that isn't great. Great writing does not contain "un-great" stuff.

The following infographic from Encremento provides some fascinating stats on eBook piracy, DRM, and other publishing industry efforts to combat file sharing. But here's the thing: you shouldn't worry about Piracy. It's been years since Amazon's first Kindle came out. Now that so much time has passed, I think it's safe to look at the marketplace and say that the publishing industry will not encounter anything close to the level of piracy suffered by the music industry. Either eBooks and digital music are completely different beasts (they are) or the publishing industry learned from the missteps of their music business counterparts — or a bit of both. But no matter what the reason, the data illustrates that, as always, OBSCURITY is the enemy of independent authors, NOT piracy.

An unreliable narrator, as we can see from these examples, can misdirect, add intrigue, and fundamentally change the trajectory and moral of your story.