The Warning Signs As some of you may know from my Court Battle Royale posts I have been engaged in a custody battle with my ex for nearly 2 years. He has made my life a living hell. Slowly he is draining my resources and turning everyone against me. Worst of all my own family … More Self Reflection
The Name Game Names are especially important to pharmacists. We use them to identify, patients, drugs, insurance plans and a number of other things. Drug names however, are the hardest for everyone to wrap their mouth around. No matter how hard some people try they never seem to pronounce them correctly. Here’s the biggest tip … More Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharmacist
Sometimes it’s harder to leave than stay. I usually have a hard time telling people why I stayed so long in a bad and emotionally abusive marriage. It’s even harder pinpointing how and why I left. This post from Filter Free Parents does a great job of explaining many of the same things I went … More The Strength to Leave
After the last post I thought I’d share why I love my job. Sure I work some 10 hour days wait hours to pee, don’t get breaks, and get yelled at for things beyond my control but I love my job. Which I repeat to myself quite often throughout the day sometimes. Why you ask? … More Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharmacist part 2
Image by Comfreak on Pixabay Creating a believable world in your book can be more challenging for some authors than others. Genre, setting, and time period have the largest influence on the world you are building. Typically, books set in the real world in modern times are the easiest to write. However, research is key … More Building Believable Worlds
Many authors love to tease their friends saying “be careful, or you’ll end up in my novel” while true this isn’t always a bad thing. I have friends begging to be warriors, mages, or even a villain in my books. They want to know what kind of character I’d make them. I have an ex-roommate … More Creating Believable Characters
Writing the perfect villain can be a challenging to some authors. Its all about what kind of tone you want to create with the character. Do you want an absolute overlord that your readers abhor or more of anti-villain that they can sympathise with. In my next blog post in my tips on writing series … More creating villians
If your an aspiring author trying to make it on your own writing that first novel can seem like an overwhelming task. While For Their Sins wasn’t my first novel it was the first one to be picked up by a publisher. Receiving that email that said, ‘yes we’re interested,’ was like Christmas. To spread … More Creating an Urban Fantasy World
If you are having slow sales making the switch to Draft 2 Digital could improve your results. https://www.draft2digital.com/rtranbooks See how that and other small changes helped me. … More A Small Change Makes a Big Difference
You can imagine all the twists and turns in a long adventure. Here are a few tips that will help anyone hoping to tackle a project like this. … More Tips to Writing a Long Series by Charles Yallowitz #IAN1 #IARTG #fantasy
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