by PennyFreeman | Jan 22, 2015 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY MCKENNA GARDNER Writing Conflict The best conflict in literature stems from genuine human desire and motivation. When you have two primary characters, presumably the hero and the villain, or the hero and the heroine, with opposing outlooks on life, an inevitable...
by PennyFreeman | Jan 21, 2015 | Inside Marketing
BY VEENA KASHYAP Happy New Year! I hope you had a fabulous holiday season. Now that you’ve had some downtime, let’s get back to business, shall we? Last fall, I kicked off a series of posts focusing on the building of an author platform. As you may recall, my...
by PennyFreeman | Jan 20, 2015 | Inside Marketing
BY DIANE JORTNER Writing is a Lonely Business. But does it have to be? The one complaint I hear from writers is that it is such a solitary career. Often novice and established writers complain that even family members don’t get excited about what they are doing or the...
by PennyFreeman | Jan 17, 2015 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY MERILYN OBLAD Accuracy in Historical Fiction, Part Two: Shifting Mental Gears In my last post , I wrote about how to do proper research for in-depth historical novels. But what do you do for backdrop historical novels, ones that take place in the past but the story...
by PennyFreeman | Jan 16, 2015 | Editor's Notes
BY SARAH-BETH WATKINS I am delighted to be a new assistant editor for the mad world of Xchyler, so I thought I’d better introduce myself and let you know a little bit about me before I attack your work! I began writing many moons ago—fantasy stories to utilise...