Picking the Right Point Of View

When you’re writing a story, there’s a few things you need to think about before you pick your point of view, and point of view characters.

Drafting a Manuscript Using Voice to Text

They say if your words aren’t flowing, switch something up. Well… I tried voice to text this week… and it seems to be working?

Here are 5 tricks that helped me make it work.

Getting An Agent – Querying In Batches

Are you #amquerying? If you’re sending out all your queries at once instead of batch-querying, you’re making a mistake.

#writerslife #querytips

Life Happens

Remember how I’m always talking about being kind to yourself?

With all of my family updates this week… it’s time for me to practice what I preach.

My goals can wait until next week.

What To Do When Your Manuscript Is The Wrong Length

Whether you’re way over or way under your target wordcount, these tips should help.

Commas: The Joy and Bane of Writers

If you ask one-hundred writers the proper use of commas, you’ll likely get one-hundred-and one (or more) answers. The grammar rules might not have changed much, but the editorial preferences sure have.

Now, this post may get a bit more grammatically technical than usual, but I hope you’ll hang in for the ride.

If You’re Not Making Progress, Change Direction

I figured out why I wasn’t progressing the plot in my latest work-in-progress.

I was trying to write the wrong type of story!

In this post, I’ll be discussing what the types of stories are, and why the one I was trying to write didn’t work for this story.

(Also, a shout out to the inauguration.)

Morgan’s 2021 Resolutions

Last year was a year of querying/submitting, revisions, reading, and networking.

This year? The goal is publication! Yet again, I need to focus on what will get me there.

Morgan’s 2020 Retrospective

Sharing how I did on my 2020 goals, my top 10 content lists, and my social media stats. Because I like to track them and you might be interested.