- JamesFautt commented on Zetta Brown's article [Reality Check] Shaping the Novel: How I Trimmed a Manuscript from 150,000 Words to Fewer than 70,000March 2020An article by Zetta Brown was featuredMarch 2020Recently, Brooke Warner wrote 3 Good Reasons to Keep Your Book Shorter Than 80,000 Words. The main reason being that doing this can make your manuscript more appealing to publishers and reading audiences with limited time but not necessarily...
See moreAn article by Zetta Brown was featuredFebruary 2020* This post was originally published in December 2015. I read many manuscripts where very little detail or description is given. I think many authors are (mistakenly) told that readers don't want too many details because they...
See moreAn article by Zetta Brown was featuredFebruary 2020* This post was originally pulished in July 2015. Writing the words your characters say may be easy, but it isn't always easy conveying your character's "voice." I have edited a lot of writers whose characters all...
See moreAn article by Zetta Brown was featuredDecember 2019Some people say that thinking of a pen name is a waste of time when you’re starting out as a writer. You should establish your name before trying to come across as someone else. Five or ten years ago, I would have agreed with this position,...
See moreNowadays Fantasy liked Zetta Brown's article [Reality Check] - 5 Branding Tips for Authors by Zetta BrownOctober 2019Raine Fraser commented on Zetta Brown's article [Reality Check] Rebounding from Rejections - by Alexandra CaselleOctober 2019Raine Fraser liked Zetta Brown's article [Reality Check] Rebounding from Rejections - by Alexandra CaselleOctober 2019An article by Zetta Brown was featuredOctober 2019No one likes being told "no." Rejection hurts, and sometimes it doesn't matter if it's constructive or destructive criticism. You can't please everybody, so why should we care if someone doesn't like our work? I'm...
See moreAn article by Zetta Brown was featuredAugust 2019While some of us are hot and sweaty and in the middle of NaNoWriMo-ing, laser-focused on their plot and word count, there are those of us who are easily distracted. We find our eyes wandering away from the keyboard or notepad. The other day as my...
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