175: Lessons from a 10-Year-Old Published Author with Emma Sumner
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Exploring the Monomyth: 6 Lessons from Joseph Campbell’s Theory of “The Hero’s Journey”
Why do people tell stories? It’s a fair question. After all, we’ve been doing it for as long as we’ve had language itself. The first known written story, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is thought to be over 3,000 years old, but oral tradition—the practice of telling stories...
How to Organize Your Writing Life: How I Learned to Plot My Writing More Effectively Without Losing the Magic
They say there’s only two kinds of novelists in the world: one writes by the seat of his pants and the other writes without pants. I may have that saying wrong … but when it comes to writing and planning a novel, there are two ways to go about it. You can plan it out...
How to Get Your Self-Published Book Edited and Formatted and What the CreateSpace Shakeup Means for Indie Authors
Not so long ago, Amazon’s CreateSpace was a haven for self-publishing authors everywhere. While CreateSpace is best known as Amazon’s efficient print-on-demand service, the platform also provided paid publishing services to participating authors: editing, interior...