Handling Dialogue
ProWritingAid has put out a video on writing dialogue. It's about 12 minutes long. Check it out here. Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Saturday, April 12, 2025
A Good Article on Pricing Your Stories
When I first started 'writing for the money,' I didn't know there was such a strategy for pricing. Now I know better. I still have to play the game, but I frequently will move my prices up and down to see where they might sell the best. I first bought a few stories from this author, Mathew J Holmes,... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Publishing A Story When You Have Used SOME AI
It's becoming more difficult for the "writers" who allow AI to write your story. To see what a totally AI story might look like, I did my best to coax my bot into doing so. While I did get a story on a subject I picked, I could easily see the difference between "Live" and Memorex." Once you've used... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Publishing Help For The "Elderly" and The Terminally Goofy????
I mentioned yesterday that I had discovered a method of making promotional videos. I've been experimenting with it, and I'm impressed. I don't say that very often, so maybe another thing this program was telling me was that it could take my story and lay it out in eBook, paperback, and hardcover... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Short Video Ads For My (and YOUR) Stories
One of the editing tools I use is in the mid-stages of being able to produce a 60-second commercial, and I was selected to receive one at no cost. I just spent an hour watching how it was done, and they are assembling it for me sometime today. I'm curious to see how this works. I have a publisher... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
More Info On AI ... Including This Site
One of the ways I edit my stories is to drop them into a page from this site. I'm also using the paid versions of Grammarly and ProWritingAid (PWA), which are extremely helpful. If you write a lot, the ~$250 a year is well worth paying, but some sites, such as this one, show me different errors than... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, March 24, 2025
Hyphens, En Dashes and Em Dashes
Check out this very long but important guide on how to use these punctuation marks. Sign in to see full entry.
Book Blurb Stuff
Here is my pitch for an upcoming collection of sci-fi short stories. It will also appear in the epilogue of "That Russian Guy Down The Road." **************** These stories are spooky enough to walk right into someone’s dreams, and they won’t leave quietly. Title: A Tear in Time Subtitle: And Other... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, March 21, 2025
I receive numerous emails from places that offer to teach you how to write. I don't think it's possible to 'teach someone' to write, but this 13-minute audio talks about AI. It's coming harder and faster... so learn a bit about it. Check it out. Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Tense Changes
I have five people who 'love historical stories' such as I am writing in "That Russian Guy,' and yesterday, one sent me an email asking a question. She wrote, "I am loving this story, but did you know you are mixing tenses all through this story?" I had to think about it for a moment and wrote back.... Sign in to see full entry.