Mary Brotherton

Posts Tagged ‘options’

How many novels have you read with characters whose names annoy you? Maybe they remind you of someone in your office or share the same name as your ex. Perhaps the name is bothersome because you’ve seen it in so many other stories. It can be confusing for a writer with a new story; you [...]

Probably one of the hardest things, for many who try to maintain an active web blog, is keeping the content fresh. For me, it’s not that I don’t have current ideas and interesting things to say, but rather finding time to keep my own site updated. With the highly successful social networking sites and business [...]

I know a woman who must hit her SAVE button every thirty seconds or so. She told me that someone once said, “If you think you have written enough and you don’t want to start over, save it.” She’s a graphics artist, not a writer, but this is still great advice. I don’t recommend saving [...]