Hello there, fellow authors and readers from all across the globe... and, perhaps, beyond! If you're new here, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Kari Lynn M., an independent author (and artist), and I recently sat down for a 10 question interview... with myself. Because, actually, no big-time journalist requested to interview me or anything—I …
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Hello fellow writers, and welcome back to my blog, where, today, we're going to cover this very, very, very, very, VERY important topic... "perfection." And, as you can tell by the title, I'm also going to prove to you that perfection IS NOT everything. I mean, it is certainly "something"... but, yeah, it's not everything. …
Yep, I'm back again today with some more writing tips for y'all... and today, I want to focus on a specific part of the writing process. A specific part of the writing process that we often dread, avoid, and dwell over... or, maybe, I'm the only that does that. Well, in any case, I'm talking …
Okay, y'all, I'm back at ya today with a fresh writing-focused blog post! And I know it's been a while... because I've been trying to tailor my blog more towards readers as well. However, I still want to give you all a quick writing tip or two every once in a while, too, because, hey, …
Hey y'all! So, today, I'm giving you a guided writing post that's going to take a very basic, beginner-friendly approach to... (drum roll, although you probably already read the blog title...) writing poems! Ah, poetry... you know, the thing some of us love, some of us hate, some of us love to hate, and some …
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Hey y'all! So, I haven't done a true writing tips kind of post in a long while... and, to keep myself from feeling guilty about it, I'm coming at ya with a fresh one today. Now, today I'm talking about story sprinklings, which is a term I literally just made up. But it has a …
Hey homedogs. So, I may or may not have just started a brand new novel in the midst of crafting the middle chapters of another novel... Oops, I did it... again. Well, ordinarily, in the past when I've started a second or third or fourth or fifth or tenth book on a whim, I usually …
So, this just kind of dawned on me the other day. I've been listening to a lot of podcasts and reading about indie author marketing lately, so I've kind of had a slightly big mindset change, all centering around this one idea... My books are not for everyone. I had this idea in the beginning, …
We've all been there. We know the feeling. Uninspired. Drained. Loss of motivation. I've certainly been feeling stuck myself lately, so you're not alone. What's important to focus on, now, though, is the "how-to"... not how to get stuck, but rather how to get unstuck. So, below, I've created a short list of all my …
Hey y'all, remember the writing challenge I proposed to you last week? The one that goes something like... Compose a short story... made up of 14 text messages... and ONLY 14 text messages. And, as promised, I am here to today to take this challenge for myself! So, here goes. 122-215-5676 at 13:22, 11/11/20: Passed …
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