by Cindy Ervin Huff | Dec 31, 2019 | writer's tip
The New Year is just hours away, and I wanted to talk about setting goals. I know, again, lots of blogs and articles appear today on this very subject. I apologize and hope my thoughts are of value and perhaps freeing. Goal setting for me gets complicated. It’s...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Nov 5, 2019 | Uncategorized, writer's tip, Writing Reflections
Again, today I will share a few things I took away from the Serious Writer Boot Camp I attended last month. Imagine you’ve finished your draft of your story and now you need to go back over it, polishing it to a fine shine. Editors will always find something that...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Sep 12, 2019 | writer's tip, Writing craft
Writers pay out funds to market their books. We pay venue fees and buy more books to sell while paying for advertising for online sales. Self-published authors pay to get their books in print. Writing is more than an artform, it’s a business and as such dollars that...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Apr 11, 2019 | Uncategorized, writer's tip
My title might confuse you. I’m not writing about a grisly crime, rather a common writing mistake. The first time an editor wrote floating body parts or FBP on my manuscript I had to ask for an explanation. A floating body part is when an attribute is given to a body...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Apr 2, 2019 | Uncategorized, writer's tip
Every new writer is told over and over through conference speakers, blogs, articles and seasoned authors that they need to read craft books. Over the years, I bought several. Today I thought I’d share a portion of them with you. Some I’ve read cover to cover, others...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Mar 26, 2019 | Character ideas, Uncategorized, writer's tip
This past week I read a friend’s blog, and she mentioned whiles going through her story she found she’d changed the eye color of her character. I laughed. Then I found I’d changed a secondary character’s name after the first few chapters of my own...
