Resources for Writers Some helpful books, blogs and other tools we recommend. These are tools we use and have found helpful for new writers. Alas, we don’t have time to vet new companies to add to the list, so please don’t ask us to do that. This list is simply a helpful, free offering to our readers–as is all the content of this blog. Unfortunately, we don’t have time to offer any more free services than we already offer with this blog. We need to spend some of our time writing books so we don’t starve–and we also need to sleep and see our families and go outside and breathe like other earth creatures. Thanks. Recommended Books Social Media Smart Social Media by Chris Syme Blog It! By Molly Greene Rise of the Machines by Kristen Lamb Blogging for Writers by Robin Houghton (Only in paper. Extensively illustrated.) The Author’s Platform by Barb Drozdowich. Barb also provides one-on-one social media help at Bakerview Consulting . She’s great!) For Self-Pub
× DeviantArt DeviantArt FREE - In Google Play VIEW Deviant Art Morgan S Hazelwood 10 Questions to Ask Your Beta-readers Morgan Hazelwood 1 year ago Advertisements Asking for Feedback Now that NaNoWriMo is over, a lot of us are asking “what’s next”? I mean, clearly there are those of us, many of us, who either didn’t finish NaNo, or whose NaNo wasn’t long enough to finish our stories, and of course the answer for us is clear – finish that rough draft. For the rest of you, run your novel through spell-check, do a few read-throughs, make sure your story says what you want it to. I like to print it out at this stage, mark it up, write pages and pages of new material on the back, sort it out by chapter, making index cards for each one… There are a lot of ways to edit it, to clean it up and make it consumable by eyes-that-aren’t-our-own. But, eventually, we’re going to have to let the manuscript go. To send it to a beta reader fo