The Last Few Weeks in Books 11/30/12
Updated: 2012-11-30 17:00:00
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
As NaNoWriMo comes to an end, we have one last giveaway—and it's a big one! Today's freebie is a special 90-minute webinar that details all of the tips and insights you need to know to get the attention of an agent and provide them with the information they need about your book. Enjoy! Read more
It seems that the manual for almost every product I buy starts off by congratulating me for having purchased the product. I recently bought a waterproof iPod shuffle to listen to audio books while I swim, and since I couldn’t figure out how to switch playlists on the device, I turned to the manual. Here’s [...]
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments Stop Reading Books on Writing Use These 5 Freelance Writing Tips Instead By Erin O’Neil You know all those books you have on freelance writing Put them away . Now . Stop reading them immediately . I’ve already read them for . you I’m one of those people who loves research perhaps a little too much . You might even call me a research evangelist . So when I embarked on a full-time writing career , I pored over every book I could find on the subject . And there are a lot of books on freelance writing . Like , dozens . Hundreds . Many are highly recommended . Many are totally irrelevant . A large percentage are just plain boring . But
She is seeking: In the adult fiction realm, she is particularly interested in literary fiction, magical realism, cultural themes, and debut authors. She is drawn to strong voices, complex narrative arcs, dynamic and well-developed characters, psychological twists, and dystopian/apocalyptic literary fiction. In the young readers realm, she is seeking young adult novels, middle grade novels, and picture books. Read more
, The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us J-School Bonus Tweet Jump to Comments Get a Free Copy of 13 Ways to Get the Writing Done Faster” Plus , Will You Nominate Us I wanted you to be the first to get a free copy of Carol Tice’s and my new e-book 13 Ways to Get the Writing Done Faster : 2 Pros Share Their Secrets To earn well as a freelance writer , you’ve got to be able to crank out your assignments . Learn how to speed up the process and get your writing done quickly from Carol Tice of the Make a Living Writing blog and Linda Formichelli that’s me of The Renegade . Writer The book will be available gratis on Amazon for five days and then will go back to its regular price so grab it while it’s
In honor of National Novel Writing Month, I’m going to be offering free content each weekday in November to help all NaNoWriMo participants (and, really, anyone who is working on a novel). Here is today’s giveaway: A worksheet that features the basic questions you should be answering in your closing scenes. Read more
I recently listened to Your Brain at Work, a productivity/neuroscience book by David Rock. Rock’s main argument is that by better understanding your brain, you can align the way you work with your brain’s tendencies, patterns, and instincts to be more productive and successful. Rock keeps your attention throughout by implementing a narrative conceit involving [...]
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While driving to pick up lunch, you accidentally bump into the car in front of you—a light fender bender—that pops open the other car's trunk. When you get out to assess the damage, you notice that the driver of the other car is none other than your favorite actor. More important, you notice a dead body in the trunk. Who is the actor and what elaborate excuse does he give you to explain the dead body in his trunk? Read more
For all writers out there who have even a passing interest in writing a screenplay, this article is your guide to help you turn your prose into a great script. Read more
I recently attended an internal conference at my work for instructional designers. The focus of the conference (as I assume the focus is for many instructional design conferences) was on “learning.” I always find the emphasis on learning in the ID crowd fascinating, because this is rarely a word that tech writers use, yet our [...]
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us J-School Bonus Tweet Jump to Comments How to Get Past Your Writing Block Using Brute Force By Linda Formichelli I hear a lot of the same problems from my mentoring clients . They have trouble getting started with marketing , researching , or writing : because They’re afraid They’re perfectionists They’re procrastinators And so on I’m a fix-it type of person . When someone comes to me with a problem , whether they ask me to or not , I want to just fix . it So my instinct when I hear these problems and what I learned in my wellness coaching course is to delve deep into the issue , find its roots , and fix the issue at its . core For example , if you’re a
If you’ve ever been frustrated by the lack of keyword highlighting in Flare’s HTML5 output, check out the script Scott DeLoach created for this. It works pretty well. Details for the HTML5 Highlighter are on Scott’s site: http://www.clickstart.net/highlighter/. I created a quick video tutorial showing how to actually incorporate the highlighter in Flare. It’s not difficult [...]
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , November 25, 2012 Goblin's Bounty is full of goodness and we're not just talking about the coconut and chocolate Our heroes and , Dianamh the ugly goddess of . nature She doesn't even have any . warts For those of you who haven't seen my vlog I am working on a great little project called Goblin's Bounty an Android app , which combines two of my favourite things gamebooks and collectable card games . I've not been this happy since the release of the Ravnica block or Blood of the Zombies . So basically , you play it like a gamebook and when you get to combat , you draw a load of cards that deal damage to an opponent , or protect you from their attacks and they
If you’re interested in Madcap Flare or are already a Madcap software user, definitely check out the upcoming MadWorld Conference, held April 7-9, 2013, in San Diego, California. I’m presenting the following two sessions at MadWorld: Make Your Content Findable Through Search by Tom Johnson Users tend to search help material when they have a [...]
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
In a recent webinar on writing scripts for video tutorials that I gave to the STC Tech Editing group for the STC last week, someone asked how to create screencasts for mobile apps. I thought it would be a good idea to respond in more detail in a blog post. Most likely your apps are designed for iPhones [...]
. , home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us J-School Bonus Tweet Jump to Comments Freelancing and the Art of Marketing Karma By Princess Jones Let’s pretend for a moment here that your freelance career is a puppy . Bear with me here . I’m going somewhere with this . Also , you get to choose what kind of puppy it is so it’s not like you’re not getting something out of this . Puppies are a lot of responsibility and they need a lot of care . But some things are a little higher priority than others . For example , you can buy a really cute collar and groom it regularly , but if you never feed it , your puppy’s future doesn’t look too good . Marketing your business is like feeding your puppy . If you fail
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us J-School Bonus Tweet Jump to Comments Are You Pushing Away Ideas and Work by Trying Too Hard By Linda Formichelli I recently had a mentoring client who I love you know I love you , lady who told me she’d been thinking about a particular article idea for a week . She’d been to a gift shop in a small town that drew hundreds of visitors every weekend , which is pretty amazing . How could she turn that into an article She turned this idea every which way with no success and it was driving her nuts not to be able to use it I’ve seen this a lot : Writers who find an idea and hang onto it like a dog hangs onto a bone . Are you one of them Focus on the input , not
. , home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
I’ve recently been exploring Madcap Flare’s Mobile Webhelp format. Madcap introduced this new format in version 7, so it’s not a new feature (Flare is now on version 8). Nevertheless, I haven’t used this format much much partly because I haven’t had any mobile projects until now, and because mobile documentation is still so young. [...]
If you have an iPhone, iPad, or other device with a retina display, you probably noticed that images appear crisper than on your regular computer monitor. The retina display significantly increases the number of pixels per inch that fit on the screen, increasing the resolution of the images. What does this mean for technical writers [...]
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on documentation for a mobile app. This is the first time I’ve documented a mobile app, so it’s no surprise that I realized a few new things. 1. It’s hard for users to switch between help and the app. My preference in publishing help material is [...].jpg)
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your