One of the harshest truths to anything you do in life is: no matter how hard you try to be perfect, perfection doesn’t exist. You can rewrite the same story over and over again, and while you may get better each time, you’ll make new mistakes and repeat old ones, even if you know better….
I’ve been keeping up with AuthorTube for over a year now, and while I’m not quite as enthralled with it as I once was, it still offers valuable resources. I’ve made quite a few mistakes with my debut novel, but I’m thankful to have had access to the experiences of other authors (traditionally published and…
The short answer is: it’s complicated. If you’ve spent years writing fanfiction or have just started embarking on the daunting task of writing an entire novel, this is probably something you’ve never even considered. As someone who was an exclamation mark abuser, let’s just say it was sobering to get my manuscript back from my…
If you’re here, you’re likely an avid reader or a writer yourself, and you’re probably familiar with the wild west of self-publishing. Being able to circumvent the gatekeepers has been an amazing boon to seeing works published that a publisher concerned with their bottom-line wouldn’t touch. Over the years, traditional publishing encouraged people to emulate…