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10 Reasons to Consider Substack

ByKathrese McKee September 7, 2023September 7, 2023

An overview of the benefits to authors of using Substack for blogging, newsletters, and a stand-in website.

Content and Craft

Ethics of ChatGPT for Authors

ByKathrese McKee August 30, 2023August 31, 2023

Explores plagiarism, academic cheating, intellectual property concerns, and the ethical use of AI by authors.

Content and Craft

Transcript – Storytelling Revolution

ByKathrese McKee August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

J. Thorn shares his exploration of ChatGPT’s capabilities in the realm of storytelling.

Content and Craft

Book overview – Cowriting with ChatGPT, J. Thorn

ByKathrese McKee August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

A short overview of J. Thorn’s life hack manual, Cowriting with ChatGPT, about using ChatGPT to help authors with story development.

Mindset

5 Steps to Fight Author Fade

ByKathrese McKee March 6, 2023March 7, 2023

Today, we are going to tackle a delicate subject which I have dubbed “Author Fade.” What is it? How do you recognize it? And how do you avoid it or recover from it? What is author fade? You may have guessed that this topic concerns a personal struggle of mine. Recently, I have been fighting…

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12 Great Ways to Find Story Ideas

ByKathrese McKee September 1, 2022September 8, 2022

Let’s go over twelve great ways to find story ideas for your story idea notebook. Never face the blinking cursor of doom again.

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Make a Scene in a Good Way

ByKathrese McKee July 20, 2022September 8, 2022

Scenes are the building blocks of novel writing. If you master writing scenes, your stories will be unputdownable. Riveting. Engaging. If you are an experienced author, you know these things, but every fiction author must learn how to write a good scene. How to Write a Scene To start off, I will answer a newbie…

Tools and Services

Use Plain Text to Future-Proof Your Writing

ByKathrese McKee April 12, 2022May 27, 2022

You need to consider plain text as a means to future-proof your written work. Why plain text? How hard is it to do? What are the advantages and disadvantage? My suggestions? Let’s find out.

Mindset

What are your big rocks for 2022?

ByKathrese McKee November 16, 2021August 2, 2022

The one part of the time bucket analogy that works is to do your best to put the big rocks first, so the less important things either fill the spaces between the big rocks or slip over the edges of the bucket and go undone.