Photo by Andrea Davis on Pexels.com When I initially, made the decision to branch out into freelance writing after a couple of paid gigs, I had no idea how it would affect my writing style. Obviously, it was interesting, but also gave it me another avenue to learn my...
Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! You registered on WordPress.com 11 years ago. Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging. A huge thank you to all my followers for continuing to read, comment and participate in my blogging life. Here's to another 11...
As you may know, I have made a goal for 2021 to enter contests, submit articles to magazines and stories to anthologies. This seemed an easy process until I began to look at all the paperwork accumulating. For each submission there is of course, rules, guidelines,...
As published authors, we soon realize that writing the book is only half the story - literally! Now we have to promote it in order to sell it. When I published my first children's picture book, Rumble's First Scare this became clear quite quickly, when I was asked...
Today's question is: How did you build your author platform? Was it by personal effort or did you have professional help? Last week's discussion answered this question: If you were given the opportunity to form a book club with your favorite authors of all...
An article is a written work published either in a print or electronic form. It can propagate news, research results, academic analysis, or debate. These articles are published within a magazine, which is a collection of written articles. At its root, the word...
Does writing energize or exhaust you? This mostly depends of what I am writing. Subject matter or issues of personal interest can be energizing to work on while other subject matter can be more difficult. What is your writing Kryptonite? Probably distractions of any...
Your blog, Mandy Eve Barnett's Official Blog, appears to be getting more traffic than usual! 72 hourly views - 2 hourly views on average A spike in your stats. Wow - thank you all for your continued support. It is greatly appreciated. Again if you would like to...
Firstly may I apologize for not posting yesterday? I did post on Saturday a short horror story, The Keys, which I hoped would be enjoyed by all. So the reason I was absent yesterday? I attended a local business symposium, which was informative, enlightening and a...