How a Mother-Daughter Team Came To Create Children’s Books
There were several factors leading to the creation of the Riki and J.R. Horse Tales books, but the first notion of creating a children’s book series based on our two horses began back in 2013.
Read MoreHow To Set-Up and Install Grow by Mediavine To Boost Your Blog’s Social Media Traffic
This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to set-up and install the Grow plugin by Mediavine. These social media share buttons can easily help boost your blog’s traffic.
Read MoreHow to Create and Set-Up a Professional Author Page On Facebook
This step-by-step tutorial shows aspiring writers how to create and set-up a professional author page on Facebook. Learn how to edit your ‘About’ section, link your page to your website, upload your profile picture and timeline cover, how to invite others to like your page, and so much more. Create Your Page First, you will…
Read More50 Top Resource Books for Fiction Writers
Aspiring Writer Academy recommends these 50 Top Resource Books for Fiction Writers. While there are numerous books available in bookstores and online that offer fantastic teaching, inspiration, and advice about the writing and publishing industry, we have narrowed the options down to help you boost your fiction writing career.
Read MoreScene & Sequel: The Secret to Plotting an Epic Novel (Part 2)
A good story is about a character who ACTS. His actions and decisions drive the story forward. However, many aspiring writers string together scenes that an editor might call ‘episodic.’ What is ‘episodic?’ This is when your character seems to enter a scene without a clear scene goal or intention of pursuing a scene goal, and a random event occurs causing the character to react. Then another disaster happens to this character in the next scene or the character gets more bad news.
Read MoreScene & Sequel: The Secret to Plotting an Epic Novel
Scene & Sequel: The Secret to Plotting an Epic Novel
(Part I)
Ever feel ‘stuck’ while writing or had your story called ‘episodic’ or ‘unmotivated?’ Do you have a hard time moving your story forward in a way that grips the reader?
Learn the individual components of Scene & Sequel to structure your scenes, advance the plot, and increase the stakes with each character decision.
Writing Fiction: How to Develop Your Story Premise
“What is your story about?”
Can you answer that question about your work-in-progress in one, clear, concise sentence?
If not, you may need to take some time to craft your story premise.
A story premise, also referred to as a logline, is a single sentence (sometimes two) that acts as the foundation of your story.
12 Quick Tips to Write Dazzling Dialogue
Dialogue can be challenging to write. It takes time and practice to craft conversations that are believable, meaningful, serve to push the plot forward, and hold the attention of the reader. To help you improve your craft of fiction writing and make your character’s lines sparkle, we have created a list of 12 Quick Tips to Write Dazzling Dialogue.
Read More10 Questions to Ask When Creating Characters for Your Story
You have decided that you want to delve into the world of fiction and write a story. Great! You even have an awesome story idea that you’ve been playing around with in your head. Great! Now…what kind of characters could be in a story like this? And most importantly, who will be the protagonist—the main character of your story?
Read MoreMacro Edits: Looking at Your Story as a Whole
After you have finished writing the first full draft of your novel, you may want to set it aside for a few weeks before going straight into edits to give your brain time to refresh. Giving yourself time to distance from the story allows you to come back to it with a different perspective. This is exactly what you will need for the first round of revision—macro edits.
Read MoreWriting Fiction: How To Keep Track of Time in Your Story
Have you ever read a story where the timeline didn’t make sense?
When writing a fictional story, using a ‘story calendar’ will help you keep track of time between each of your scenes to avoid confusion and keep your story believable and accurate.
22 Great Tools and Resources for Writers
Hey writers! Right here we have gathered together 22 Great Tools and Resources for Writers. Many of these awesome tools and resources we use ourselves on this site and other websites we manage. We only share tools that we trust and believe are helpful for aspiring writers.
Read MoreBasic Story Structure: How to Plot in 6 Steps
Before you sit down to write a story, you must first decide: What do you want to write about? And even more importantly—Why?
Read MoreBehind the Scenes: Interview with the Authors of the “Sew in Love” Collection
Behind the Scenes: Interview with the Authors of the “Sew in Love” Collection.
Read MoreOur Inspiration For Writing A Historical Novella Collection
Q & A with the authors of the Sew in Love Collection: Jacquolyn McMurray, Debby Lee, and Darlene Panzera.
Read MoreBrainstorming Story Ideas: Where to Find Them
One of the top questions an author gets asked is: How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? In this blog post, we give you 3 useful resources and 3 Smart Writer Tips to help you find the inspiration you need to start writing fabulous fiction.
Read MoreWhy We Started Aspiring Writer Academy: Our Story
Hi, I’m Darlene Panzera, co-owner of Aspiring Writer Academy and I would like to share why my daughter, Samantha, and I started a blog on writing and publishing.
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