CataUniversity | 2010 February

Antiheroes by Manda Benson

By Manda Benson ⋅ February 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Starting to tire of the status quo? The villain gets engines of destruction and malefic technologies at his fingertips; the hero gets a sidekick who can do magic tricks and a white horse with bells on it. It’s time to level the playing field. It’s time to talk about antiheroes.
What is an antihero?
An antihero is [...]

March Workshop:”Sex Between The Pages: Understanding and Crafting Sexual Tension”

By Alice ⋅ February 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

March 1-26, 2010
“Sex Between The Pages: Understanding and Crafting Sexual Tension”
by Mary Buckham
www.WriterUniv.com
How do you write great sexual tension? That’s the question Mary Buckham posed to Linda Howard, Stella [...]

Planning to Write

By Alice ⋅ February 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.”
E.L. Doctorow
This post was submitted by Alice.

Feb 22:Writing A Series With Multiple Main Characters by Linda Wisdom

By Jax Bubbis ⋅ February 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

From Monday, February 22 2010
To Sunday, March 21 2010
Sometimes you want to write a series but you don’t want to use the same heroine and hero for each book. And no reason why you should.
Linda Wisdom created a series with a different witch in each book, but she’s also kept the series connected just enough [...]

Feb 22: Writing a Book Marketing Plan by Paula Margulies

By Jax Bubbis ⋅ February 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

From Monday, February 22 2010
To Friday, March 19 2010
Writing a Book Marketing Plan – How to Create an Effective Plan for Distributors and Book Sellers
Many self published and small press authors are learning that they must have a marketing plan in order to get their books accepted for distribution by wholesalers and book sellers. The [...]

Plot VS Characters

By Alice ⋅ February 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films although I think they do have plots – but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.”
Film Director Jim Jarmusch
This post was submitted by Alice.

Tax Deductions for Writers by Pamela S. Thibodeaux

By Alice ⋅ February 10, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Writing is more than creating the ‘great American novel’; writing is a Business and a business requires record keeping and tax preparation. Many have already begun gathering information and getting things in order. Most will wait until the last minute then be in a panic. Don’t be one of them, be PREPARED!
IRS rules state that [...]

More on Plot

By Alice ⋅ February 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

“It\’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
This post was submitted by Alice.

Good Blog Habits #6 – Reminder people to sign up for your RSS feed.

By Alice ⋅ February 7, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Reminder people to sign up for your RSS feed.
More and more people are using RSS feeds these days. You can even get an RSS feed via email. Getting your users subscribed to your blog will help you get return traffic.
Each time you post something new, they’ll be notified. This makes it easy for them to [...]

Good Blog Habits #5 – Have Goals

By Alice ⋅ February 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Have goals.
What is it you want out of your blog?
Don’t feel blindly in the dark. Set goals. Write down the steps it’ll take to achieve the goals. And start completing those steps.
This goal will help you maintain your focus. It will help you persist when the going gets touch. It will help you be [...]

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