Apart from the ones suffering the so-said writer’s block (but you can get out of it, you know?), every writer I know is a bottomless well of ideas. A new sentence, a new ending, a new beginnig, a new character, a new character’s flaw, a new logo, a new song that your character may sing […]
Choosing the title of your book is something only you or your editor should do. To anyone asking for a title for their story (usually providing only a short synopsis of it…) I usually answer with these words: Would you let someone else name your child? Because there’s simply no way someone other than who […]
You imagined it, you wrote it, you edited it, you published it. Now it’s time to sell it! Planning a Marketing Strategy And a part of your job as an indie, self-published author is planning a marketing strategy to do it. For the actual launch of a new book you need a specific strategy, but […]
I wrote a little about motivation, a couple of days ago, but that is a topic that itself could cover (and actually does!) hundreds of books. And I have something to add, at least regarding my own experience. Leaving a Legacy I wrote about my “Leaving a Legacy” motivation. This all starts from the way […]
If you want to become an Author all you have to do is one, little thing: write. Yes, I said it already, I’m not joking. But if you want to become a Professional Author there’s a little more to that, though. It means lot of dedication; it means days and nights spent writing even when […]
I had a 2 years long break that lasted until the beginning of this year. I had all these wonderful stories inside me, and no time to write them. Or so I thougth. Truth is, I was finding excuses. Lack of inspiration. Lack of time. Children. Seeing friends. Then moving to a new city, then […]
It may be strange, but it’s a question I’ve been thinking of a lot, in the past days. What do I write? I need to understand, clearly, what I write about. Otherwise there is no way I can reach the readers’ heart. I write fiction, erotic fiction, that’s for sure. I write erotica, usually contemporary […]
The only necessary first step to become an author is, needless to say, writing. But as soon as you go public – even just to publish your writings for free – your audience will start identifying you from what – and how – you write. You – simply said – become what you write, in […]
Here’s another trick I use when I have no inspiration at all, especially in case I’ve not been writing for long. In fact, when it happens I find myself unable to write even the simples sentences, to describe even the simplest scenes. Whatever genre you write, you’ll always need a good descriptive capacity: of places, […]
Authors know that feeling very well: there are days when it feels you can’t write a decent word, days in which it’s so difficult to find the inspiration – the drive to write your book – that you think you’ll actually never finish it. What do I do in those days? How do I find […]