Love & the Goddess Blog Tour: Guest Post

Hey everyone, it's a great day for a blog tour post.  Today we have a great author post  from author Mary Elizabeth Coen.  She is talking about 5 Writing Tips today here on The Twigasm.  Her book Love & The Goddess can be bought on Amazon.  Make sure you get your copy today. It's only 99 cents on Amazon for Kindle Version!

5 Writing Tips

(1) Posture is important -choose a comfortable chair and make sure if you iuse a laptop, have it at  eye level – I build mine up on  top of several books and use a separate keyboard.

(2)Get rid of the inner critic and just write – the writing improves
with later drafts.

(3) I plan my characters and use a mood board with images from magazines to represent the main characters. I then write a biography on each detailing eye & hair color, height, occupation etc. I add finer details like hobbies and habits and keep all of this in a sectioned folder.

(4) It is equally important to keep notes on what happens in each successive chapter. I plan chapters in advance but certain things change as I write, If I don’t keep notes I find I’ll constantly keep glancing back and wasting time.

( 5) Discipline is important – set aside a block of time each day solely for writing and try to stick to that. Lastly have lots of fun with the process. I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t such fun.

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Guest Post: The Magic of the Serialized Novel by author Drew Leiter

So today I have a great guest post to share with you from author Drew Leiter, he is the author of a serialized novel that is released out bits a time.  I'm very excited to share this with you because later today I will be posting my review of the first two issues.   Enjoy!!!

Have you ever wished you had magical powers?  When I was a boy I dreamed of having magical powers all the time.  I would turn invisible to sneak out of class.  I would have super strength on the playground to stop the school bully from picking on the kids.  I would fly through the sky so I could quickly get to my destination.  I would run with super speed so I could beat the other kids in races.  I would use my powers of telepathy to find out if the blond girl who sat next to me in class liked me.

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Reader Reviews: The Good, The Bad, and How to Handle It All with author Sydney Logan

Today we have an awesome author with us.  Sydney Logan talks about Reader Reviews.  Sometimes they are good, sometimes bad and how she handles them.  I am very excited about this post.  I hope you all enjoy!!! I also want to thank Sydney for being on the blog today.  I love featuring authors and any from the Writers Coffee Shop are my favs.  

Reader Reviews:

The Good, The Bad, and How to Handle It All

Guest post by Sydney Logan

author of Lessons Learned

When I signed my publishing contract for my debut novel, Lessons Learned, one of the first questions I was asked on my marketing form was about unfavorable reviews and how I would react to them. Of course, I had heard horror stories about one-star reviews that could rip an author’s dreams to shreds. I’d also heard about “bad author behavior” where the author would engage with a reviewer in a negative way. But I had never really considered how I would react to it. 

Lessons Learned was definitely my baby. My blood, sweat, and many, many tears went into the book. It is a sweet love story with undertones of religious and social issues. The subject is timely and somewhat controversial, so I expected some reactions. For the most part, I’ve received nothing but wonderfully supportive reviews. Sure, there have been reviews I’ve disagreed with, or wished I could talk to the reviewer and explain something that perhaps wasn’t clear to them, but I never have.

The honest truth is that the very best reaction to a negative review is no reaction at all.

At least not publicly.

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