Catching the Horse, or How I Wrote a NaNo Thing

“If you fall off the horse, get back on.” It’s an old saying, tried and true, that failure does not mean to stop trying.  Fall off the horse, jump back on quickly.  The longer you wait, the harder it is to work up the courage to try again. But what if you wait so long …

How to Run Beta Reading Cycles

So you’ve written your piece, read through it and revised it, worked on it some more, and now it’s reached the point where you’re thinking of submitting it for publication. Before you do that, consider rounding up some beta readers and having a beta reading cycle. Beta Readers What are beta readers? They are people …