by Tina Konstant | Aug 4, 2017 | Daily Dose of Fiction, Uncategorized
OK. The Daily Dose of Fiction crashed and burned for a while. It started because I needed a break between projects but knew I needed to keep writing. Then I started the next novel (attempt number 8 or 9 – lost count) … and things got hard! So I switched...
by Tina Konstant | Feb 13, 2017 | Motivation
If you’re working on your first book/film/creative “thing”, at some point you’ll send it to an expert (or a buyer) who, you hope, will be instrumental in getting you published, on the big screen or otherwise into the world. While you wait for...
by Tina Konstant | Jan 18, 2015 | Story Ideas
Sometimes story ideas seem to blossom out of the ether. One moment your mind is wondering about the to-dos of daily life and the next you have an idea for a story that seems complete from beginning to end. Nice. Sweeeeeeeet! But what happens when these ideas just...
by Tina Konstant | May 7, 2014 | Getting Started
Whether you’re writing your first novel or your tenth, you still have to deal with writing rules: things the writing world says are so important to the writing process that they have been elevated from “things to be aware of” to “A RULE”....
by Tina Konstant | Apr 10, 2014 | Getting Started
We do enough in this world with the single purpose of making other people happy. It’s how many folk are raised: don’t say anything to upset anyone; don’t make people uncomfortable; give people what they ask for; step out of your way to be nice so...