I'm going to rant and gush for a moment, so...read or not. The indie publishing market is saturated with poorly written books. With such a high number of those poorly written books, it makes it harder for the good books among them to stand out.(Go to Amazon and search the fantasy books.) People see 'self-published' … Continue reading Indie Author Woes
Category: Writer’s Woes
MFA, to get or not to get
I chose to continue my education and get my Masters in Fine Arts 1) so I could advance myself in my career 2) to show agents that I'm serious about this writing thing. If it hadn't been for reason 1, I wouldn't have gotten the expensive MFA. Writers shouldn't have to spend 50,000 dollars to … Continue reading MFA, to get or not to get
Grammar: The comma
Let's take a moment to talk about that bugger of punctuation, the comma. A lot of writers, both professional and amateur, misuse commas. That's what editors are for. There is a student in my MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) who claims he's been writing for years, and yet when I read his posts, he comes across … Continue reading Grammar: The comma
Beatrice B. Morgan 