The WHAT – Part 2: What strategies will you implement?

There are a number of strategies to think through as you create your marketing. But what are marketing strategies you, the author, can implement? This will have large variance depending on your career status. If you have an established agent and publisher, then your strategy will have to largely adhere to the rules set forth

5 Ways to Add Structure to Your Writing Process

In continuing a focus on Overcoming Your Obstacles as a Writer, it may be absolutely critical to begin adding structure to your writing methods if you wish to become a better writer. Last time, we discussed methods to overcome emotional writer’s block, when it’s not a plot-point or character holding you back, it’s your own

The Artist’s Hobo Tool: 5 Tools to Measure, and Increase, Productivity

This month’s focus is all about planning and productivity. As we create a marketing plan and track writing progress, it’s important to have tools to help you in your productivity. Let’s start with the simple options: a stopwatch and a notebook. Sometimes going old school with an easy approach is the best way to go.

Create a Marketing Plan for Your Writing Career, Part One: End Goals

Up to this point, a lot of what we’ve discussed has been broad strokes, a concept approach, if you will. It’s essential to lay the groundwork before you can start really applying the work itself into a viable marketing plan that have executable steps attached. So now it comes to it, creating a marketing plan