Hey, here’s a video of me demystifying how authors get paid. Or at least trying to demystify it! As you’ll see, it’s a complicated subject… @barrylyga 💰💰MONEY! 💰💰 Writing Advice: How are authors paid???...
Read MoreConfession time: I hate revising. Loathe it. Would like to stab it through the eye with a barbecue fork until it’s dead. Ask any of my editors — they will tell you that getting Lyga to commit to a revision is...
Read MoreI recently wrote a series of BLogs on technology for writers and figured it would make sense to summarize the most important bits here in the Writing Advice section. You can go read the originals, or just skim here. I live in...
Read MoreSo, a while back I wrote a lengthy post on point of view. It was chock full of info and you should go read it before proceeding any further. I’ll wait. [Muzak plays] Back? Great! Recently, someone left the following...
Read MoreHello, one and all, and welcome back to Writing Advice, a once-weekly, now ad hoc series of BLogs on, well, you figure it out. 🙂 I was recently asked this question over on Tumblr: For writing teen protagonists, do you have any...
Read MoreHey, it’s the return of Writing Advice, the once-weekly-now-ad-hoc BLog series in which I tell y’all stuff about writing! Didja miss me??? This week, we’re going to discuss motivation. Why? Well, because I got...
Read MoreI recently received this e-mail: hey i read your books and i have been working on my own, but i need help with how to write from a female perspective. can you help? First of all: Dude. Seriously. I beg you: Capitalize properly!...
Read MoreI recently received a rather lengthy e-mail from a young writer. Some of the questions s/he asked are so universal that I figured it was time to dust off the old Writing Advice column and drop some knowledge on the...
Read MoreWelcome back to Writing Advice! I’m your host, Barry Lyga, and today we’ll be talking about endings. “But, Barry,” you say, “didn’t we talk about endings once before?” And I say to you,...
Read MoreAll right, I want to do something a little bit different this week. I want to talk about my method. Why, you may ask, am I going to talk about my method? Could it be that I am such a towering egomaniac that I just NEED to talk...
Read MoreI know that I promised to talk about my method this week, about how I actually do the work of writing a book, but then a question came in from Melissa. And it’s a good question, something I probably should have covered way...
Read MoreTwo quick questions and answers this week… I was wondering if you had any advice on transitions between scenes in a story. How can you link them all together smoothly? I may have mentioned this in a previous blog, but...
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