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Eccentric Writing Habits of Famous Writers [Infographic]
By BookBaby author BookBaby Visual artists, musicians, writers… the creative arts have been known to elicit eccentric and bizarre behavior in the people who chase their muse. If you are prone to...
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The Jungle Book: Beautiful Film, Flawed Storytelling
By BookBaby author Alex Kulaev This storyteller finds six cracks in the new Jungle Book that mar the narrative in this visually enchanting movie, providing a lesson in how to construct a story by...
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Getting good feedback from beta readers
By BookBaby author Dawn Field In an ideal world, your book’s beta readers will give you feedback on these eight points. It helps if you ask them for this specific criticism in advance. Writers are...
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Poetry as a writing exercise
By BookBaby author Marry McAleavey Experimenting with poetry as a writing exercise can be a way to stretch your comfort zone, improve your writing skills, break out of writer’s block, and introduce you...
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How to be a good beta reader
By BookBaby author Dawn Field When you read for an author, what do you offer? These eight considerations form a kind of code of conduct that can help a writer and beta reader get the most from one...
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A Lesson In Storytelling From The Ultimate Dog Tease
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Sometimes, what makes for great stories – or viral videos – is a simple thread of “and then” questions being raised, answered, and raised again. Here’s a lesson in...
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Things I Learned About Storytelling From Stranger Things
By BookBaby author Alex Kulaev It’s good practice to reverse-engineer the stories you love most and apply the best storytelling elements to your own writing. Stranger Things had that effect on me, and...
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Honoring Fact in Fiction
By BookBaby author C. Hope Clark A writer can honor fact in fiction just as in nonfiction. Friends, family, pets, locations, events… anyone or anything can be inserted smartly into storytelling, with a...
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Dedicated Reading Time Can Improve Your Writing
By BookBaby author Nancy L. Erickson Good readers make good writers, so it’s important to include dedicated reading time in your schedule to bolster your vocabulary, help you unwind, and expose...
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How to fail as a writer
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Want to be certain your writing career never leaves the ground? These 23 tips will help you stave off success and fail as a writer! To ensure you fail as a writer: 1....
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Don’t start cold – five ways to ease into writing a book
By BookBaby author Norm Schriever For me, it’s way too intimidating to just start crafting a book with the first word of the first sentence, so I’ve learned how to release the valve to set my ideas and...
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Writing three-dimensional characters
By BookBaby author C. Hope Clark In your attempt to create characters your readers crave, these five steps can help you get to know and understand your players well enough to write living, breathing...
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Want To Write Full Time? It Takes a Work/Life Balance.
By BookBaby author C. Hope Clark To enable myself to write full time, my work/life balance can’t be too loose or too strict. It’s critical to feed the passion and provide for myself and find the...
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Six Writing Formats Every Fiction Writer Should Try
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Whatever your chosen format as an author – novels, short stories, essays, etc. – trying your hand at others is an excellent writing exercise. Here are six writing formats...
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Two Stages of Creating A Believable Character
By BookBaby author The Script Lab Creating a believable character for your story begins with an initial idea, but the process of developing her into a complex, real personality will require thought and...
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Use Positive Language To Build Yourself Up
By BookBaby author C. Hope Clark When asked if you’re a writer, do you use excuse words to hold yourself down, or do you use positive language and build yourself up? With multiple books published and a...
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From Book To Film: 10 Great Adaptations
By BookBaby author The Script Lab My mission was to list films that aren’t the obvious “go to” movies in a “best book to film adaptation” compilation. I sought to put some lesser recognized movies in...
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Plotting the emotional map of your book
By BookBaby author Dawn Field The emotional map of your book is different than the plot, though the two are tightly related. Being aware of this emotional current can bring clarity to your writing, and...
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A “Fresh Eyes” Reader Can Save Manuscript Errors
By BookBaby author Suzanne Paschall If you’re asked to be a fresh eyes reader by a friend or colleague who’s writing a book, you are being given an honor, a privilege, and most important, a...
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The Mokita Of Your Book
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Sometimes what your book needs is an elephant or two in the room. That’s what a mokita is, and while we don’t want these elephants in our real lives, they can be powerful...
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