Today we talk about the book metadata: all the descriptive information you should prepare to be ready to publish your book on Amazon, and other platforms. As you’ve noticed, I just finished my journey to publishing my first, short novelette on Amazon, so I’m fresh on the topic. On a Sunny Day I’ll slowly prepare […]
There’s nothing as sad as an author who has lost his writing. Hours and hours of thinking, writing, sweating… all thrown in the bin of regret, because you didn’t spend one day to understand what to do to protect your work? Think: computers are machines made by man, software is made by men. There’s not […]
This is mostly a reminder for me than a post for all of you, but you may find it very interesting. If one of your dreams is to see your book transposed into a movie, this article explains very well how to write a screenplay: the rules, the formatting, the tricks not to appear like […]
Once you finish writing your story, before sending it to your beta-readers or your editor (BTW, also before actually publishing it!) you should remember to do at least one consistency check. What’s consistency about? Is what you wrote consistent through the different scenes/chapters of your book? If not, that could confuse or mislead your reader. […]
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 […]
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 […]
What follows is a very interesting article that made me think about the way I cope with the feeling of uneasiness, the feeling of powerlessness, the feeling of not being able to reach the quality I want, when I write. How to rewire your brain for better writing I’m a perfectionist, I have always been. […]
If you want to become an Author all you have to do is one, little thing: write. Easier said than done, right? So, let’s see what I do to try to keep my creative muse alive even in those days I’m not really in the mood to write (or in those days everything I write […]