• Challenge

    Author Names…

    Researching Kickstarters… All kinds of things authors can use Kickstarter to study. The biggest one is just flat ideas for promotions and merch and so on. There are some stunningly innovative humans doing Kickstarters these days. A great place to find ideas that would work for your book. Why I was taking a break from finishing my massive challenge to look through Kickstarter projects was my blog for tomorrow night. Looking for new projects to promote. I have some restrictions that make getting onto my blog and my free promotion sometimes hard to get. I outline it every week at the start of my Kickstarter Friday blog. The largest one…

  • Challenge,  On Writing

    Lifetime Original Christmas Movies

    They Have Started… And yes, I watch them. And yes, I know the plots are all the same. Duh, they are romance, people. Happy Ever After and all that. But honestly, if you can manage to get your nose out of the air and watch a few dozen of them, you can learn a ton about plotting and character and teams and depth and sometimes even dialog, depending… And right now in Covid land, these movies are a perfect antidote. I watch Lifetime Christmas Movies, not Hallmark. Honestly, they vary less on Lifetime and I honestly like that. I find it interesting that the elements of the plot are timed…