2017 Planning Schedule for An Angell’s Life
Heidi Angell shares her plans and goals for An Angell’s life for 2017 and reviews some of the resources she uses to help her with goal setting.
How to Effectively Market on Twitter
For anyone who missed my previous post on Twitter Tips, check it out. The content still holds strong today. Twitter is a great social media and marketing tool. The opportunity to reach thousands of people is remarkable. But it is easy to become just another voice yelling into the internet with nobody listening to a…
Are You Getting Lost in the Internet?
Heidi Angell shares the struggles of being an author and promoting online and shares a host of resources that she has used to build her online network.
Twitter Tips
As we continue to build our platform, it is important to take a careful look at Twitter. In many ways, Twitter is a better platform resource than Facebook. Where Facebook limits your contacts to people who mutually friend one another, you can follow anyone on Twitter. In theory, this permits you a much larger…
A Rose by Any Other Name- Why Character Names Matter
This post was updated 1/11/2022 Shakespeare was wrong, names are important. So when creating your characters for fiction work, it is important to give them character names that suit their personality. Unless, of course, you are trying to be ironic. Like naming a big, hulking, girl Grace. Either way, this is an important step to…
Five Steps to Building Your Entrepreneurial Platform
This post was updated 2/9/2023 You have decided that you want, no need, to be an entrepreneur. You may think that the first step is to sit down and write your business plan, right? Well, that seems a logical choice, but the first step is to start building your platform. In the marketing world, they…
5 Things I (Re)Learned from Volunteering
For those of you who don’t know, the month of July has been one long list of volunteer service at my house. From cub scout day camp to letting one of my closest friends crash on my couch, it has been a very hectic month. The biggest volunteer project I had, came in the form…
Keep on Facebooking
This post was last updated July 13th, 2020 Hello Lovelies, We spend a lot of time talking about how to grow your digital platform to grow your brand. We’ve talked about Twitter, how to grow your e-newsletter list, Today we are going to focus on Facebook. . It is very easy to get sucked into…
3 Common Reasons Writers Admit Feeling Driven to Write
I wanted to take a moment to discuss three common reasons writers admit feeling driven to write because I personally am tired of the stereotypes of introverts curled up in cabins in the woods or tortured souls. (Or nutjobs who torture others. We only do that in our books, people!)
So, after nearly 15 years in the writing community, here are the most common reasons I have seen for writer motivation:
Writer’s Corner: Dealing with Writer’s Block
Heidi Angell shares tips and tricks to avoid and conquer writer’s block if it ever rears it’s ugly head. How do you deal with writer’s Block?