Guest post by Wally Bock. First published on April 23, 2019, Wally Bock’s Writing Edge website. If you want to create great writing, you must revise. That’s never easy, but here are four tips that will help you revise better and quicker. Get the Big Stuff Right...
Resolutions are meant to be broken. Still, the beginning of the year is a great time to incorporate some new practices into your routine, particularly if you’re having trouble completing your manuscript, want to self-publish your book but are resisting the notion for...
Google the question “how to turn my blog into a book,” and you’ll find references to websites where you can feed in your blog, select the posts you want to include, choose a cover, and print a book. These are wonderful tools to create a book for family or friends if...
What’s different about this blog post? I’m not typing a word; I’m dictating it to my computer. I didn’t have to go out and buy expensive software: thanks to Google and their new voice transcriber in Google Docs, I can now easily dictate to my...
Hiring a ghostwriter was the topic on a recent online post. The person in question, who did not yet have a manuscript, was being encouraged by an un-named publisher’s representative to hire and pay for a ghostwriter to write his book, as the rep thought the topic...
Recently I was asked by a young lady, “How do I become a writer?” I have to admit, I was stumped. Although I’ve helped hundreds of authors to bring their books to reality, I didn’t have a ready answer. Adding to my “stumped-ness” was the fact that she was a university...
