Mentoring Writers Resource Box
Mentoring Writers Resource Box podcasts offer new and developing authors assistance as they travel their writing journey (whether self- or traditionally published). We mentor adult writers of all ages worldwide while mentoring under 18's through our sister organisation Kids4Kids.org.uk. With over thirty years’ experience as an award-winning author, speaker, writing mentor, and publishing consultant our Principle Mentor, Ann Brady, offers practical tips which will help new writers open the door to discovering the many facets of creating, developing and writing a book. We also offer advice on marketing and the publishing aspect of the writing process. Each of the 10-to-20-minute episodes are fact-based, conversational mentoring sessions which will help keep you focused, increase your confidence, and bolster your creativity whilst helping you write. www.mentoringwriters.co.uk
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Today we discuss the reasons for having an author email list. What the benefits are and how you can utilise this method for promotion of your book and for maintaining a closer contact with your readers, followers and subscribers to your website, blog, etc.
One thing I stress when dealing with any writer is that writing should and must be fun. And yet often I discover writers who feel stressed about the various aspects of the process. Either because they can't get started, have suddenly some to a full stop some 30,000 words in or, are wondering how to finish their novel.
Making sure you have characters that are realistic means describing them vividly. It is your job as the writer to ensure that your reader can envisage the characters in their mind when reading about them. Todays podcast gives you some insight into how to do this.
In this podcast I wanted to share with you a few writing tips that I think may help you when it comes to writing your story. Remember, most stories have already been told just not in the way you will tell it. And that is what writing is all about. By using your imagination, emotions, experiences etc and by thinking out
We all know that reviews are good but remember not all are relevant or genuine, and if a bad one is given it's hard to remove it. Today we discuss the various ways you can attract readers to follow and interact with you, other than just by leaving reviews.
Being a ghost writer can be both easy and hard. The easy part is that you are taking someone else's ideas and helping them create a story or writing about their life. But it can also be hard especially if writing a memoir. In this case you must remember to ensure you write as if the person in the memoir but also are ab