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Genre, The Writing Industry

Writing Lesson 3.18 – Conventions of Genre

NOTE: Please welcome Shannon McNear back to the NOVELWritingSite, but this time she is not a guest. Shannon is the newest member of our pool of contributors, and we’re so glad to have her with us!

In my last blog post, I discussed genres and mentioned that what genre you write affects how you [...]

Personal Motivation, The Writing Industry

Writing Lesson 3.15 – Just in Time for Christmas…

November is past, and NaNoWriMo with it. Whether or not you took the challenge to write 50K words in a month, here’s one way to see a story by YOU in print by Christmas!

Snapfish is an online photo development company. Around the holidays, they offer special prices on photo scrapbooks–bound books, in a variety [...]

Plotting, The Writing Industry

Writing Lesson 3.10-Four Starting Tips for Writing a Series

Do you have story ideas that would make a great series?

Lots of us do. It is fun to imagine a string of stories spun out of one group of characters or out of a single, long storyline like Lord of the Rings. On October 15th, my new novel The Red Fury released from [...]

Language usage, The Writing Industry

Writing Lesson 3.9-Genre: What is it?

Please allow me to introduce today’s guest blogger, Shannon McNear! Shannon has been writing one thing or another since third grade and has completed five novels in genres from Southern fiction to Revolutionary War historical to fantasy. She has eight children–two in college and six still homeschooling–but does her best to steal slivers of [...]

Editing, Self-publishing, The Writing Industry

Writing Lesson 3.7-Who is Pilcrow?

I want to introduce my new best friend.

We met when I formatted my novel, Grow Old With Me, for publication in various eBook formats.

Meet ¶ also known as Pilcrow.

This mark should become your best friend too. Pilcrow shows the end of each paragraph and opens access to other non-printing characters in [...]