#WriterWednesday - March 21st 2018

"Jeffrey The Orange Alien" is now available in audio, narrated by Danny Letham. Also, "Snowball The Oddball Kobold" is now available in audio, narrated by Jerry Fischer. See the posts I just linked to from Sunday and Tuesday respectively, for details of where you can buy them, regardless of the format you prefer.

If you're a writer too, are you being tempted by a shiny new idea? Are you seriously considering starting to work with it? If so, here are five questions to ask yourself before taking on a new project, so you can figure out if you should chase that shiny new idea, or justmake a note of it to play with another time, when you can give it the time and attention it needs and deserves.

Regardless of whether what you're writing is a new idea, or something you've been working on for some time, if you're writing something containing vampires, check out these tips to writing about vampires, and remember to do your vampire myth research; bear in mind that breaking the commonly accepted vampire myth rules is fine, but you need to know what rules you're breaking, and have a valid and plausable reason for breaking them.

Vampire or not, if you're writing something with a monster as the hero of your story, you should bear in mind these tips to writing monsterous heroes.

No matter what it is you're thinking of writing about though, or what kind of creature your hero might be, bear in mind that your story ideas aren't enough; story ideas matter, and are great to have, but they mean nothing without the time and effort that goes in to turning them from idea to finished product.

Speaking of turning your ideas in to something: here's a post with some tips on beating the blank page, in case you're having trouble with that.

Oh, and here's some advice for you if you feel like you're a writer with Imposter Syndrome.

Next, here's how to avoid info-dumps in your stories, because nobody likes those. It's fine if you end up with them during your first draft, but make sure you don't end up with them in the final version, OK?

Finally, this post is for writers who just want to make things, no strings atatched.