Mixing genres could spice things up — Do you need something different to write? Your usual genre of choice isn’t sparking your creative itch? You’ve looked through other genres, but they don’t fire them up, either? Do you want to stay in your genre lane but stick out from everyone else writing in it? (Why do I…

So, what is Urban Fantasy? — All the links here are affiliate ones. Short answer: it’s fantasy in an urban setting. Longer, more interesting answer: urban fantasy deals with fantastic beings. For example, an elf, a vampire, a wizard) or two of these..interacting with an average human (often female). This person may be a normal human…

It’s not too late. These tips can help you — These apply to the regular November competition too. If you’re in it: why are you reading this? You should be writing! You made your word quotation for the day already? OK then. History For the 10 people in the online world that don’t know: NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing…

Not everyone, but it changed mine — Don’t worry… this won’t be a bunch of “Kumbayah”s around a campfire, or a group singing about the wonders of the YMCA or the navy. 1998 My job downsized me in 1994 (they downsized so much even the company’s now gone… but I’m losing my point). I hadn’t found a new…

Wonder what marketing advice you'd get from Qubert. (Hey, you kids... get off my lawn!) Interesting piece.

Covid-19 changed 9-5 work, but for us full-time writers, little changed. Still, having joined the MPP only four months ago, your suggestion to give it 3 years is still a good idea.

Focus helps you get into the writing flow — You always hear about getting into a ‘flow’, for both fiction and non. It’s like getting to that place in meditation where you sense nothing else. How can you do this? Read on. You always hear the advice to eliminate all outside influences… including the Internet. We’re on it for…

This time about AI — Thinking about a side hustle using AI? Thinking of making lots of money through AI art, putting them on t-shirts, or coloring books? Using AI to write short stories to sell on Amazon? Nope. If you think you have a chance to make a lot of money? You could end…

We don’t remember who won what, but these things we do It’s not about the Will Smith incident at last year’s show. It’s about more. Stars have used the show to make political statements and other weird things happened since the 1970s. …