by Jennifer on April 25, 2013
Staring at a blank white screen can make a writer, or any person for that matter, go entirely mad. The pressure to fill the empty document with letters and characters that combine to form insightful words and witty dialogue, makes me stray from my writing, pushing it to the side as I waste time on [...]
by Jennifer on April 5, 2013
How do you add a third dimension to a story so it appears ‘real’? One way is to set it in a real location and drop in a wealth of authentic minutia. That location is real so the story must be too! A more subtle technique is to suggest that our characters exist in another [...]
by Jennifer on March 27, 2013
Writing an eBook is one of those amazing ways us writers can use our writing talents and the knowledge in our noggins for the greater good of the world. We can gift the world with our words. Unlike novels, which are works of fiction, eBooks are typically non-fiction books that focus on a specific topic. [...]
by Jennifer on March 14, 2013
Setting your own rates as a freelancer can be both empowering and worrisome: How much should I charge? At what point does the level of my experience warrant an increase in what I charge? Will my clients be unhappy if I increase my rates? What do I do if I increase my rates and some clients are [...]