research Archive
I took the day off writing yesterday. After a week of self-quarantine following a business trip, it was my first chance to see my family in 9 days and I wasn’t about to shut myself away in my office. I …
I finally finished the STEM research example for the chapter I was working on, and I have seriously regretting my idea to include examples in the first place – particularly examples that are so far outside of my personal understanding! …
The example section that was going so well the other day ground to a screeching halt today as I tried to tackle the STEM research example. I fear I do not have enough expertise in that field to come up …
In my last post about my non-fiction book, I mentioned that I was having a hard time explaining the particular step I was describing without an example, but that the example I had chosen was not particularly great. Today, I …
While I was writing today’s section in my non-fiction, it simply wasn’t coming across the way I wanted, so I decided it was time for an example. Unfortunately, that led down a bit of a research rabbit hole as I …
Actually, I know it was, since I didn’t write one. I grouped my research notes into topics and tried to organize those, instead of deciding in advance what I wanted to say in what order, then tagging the notes accordingly. …
I have been looking at taglines in the fantasy genres that are closest to my book, particularly at indy authors, to find the common themes. The first thing I notes was that fantasy novels do not put the tagline on …
I have a few ideas for cover images for my book now, so I went back to review the next ideal step in creating my book package: Taglines. Last time around, so much of my planning and writing process was …
Today’s passage in my non-fiction writing was about how to use a particular site’s search function to identify researchers in Japan, but I had to learn how to use it in order to teach it. I tried several different functions …
I’ve been starting my research into comp titles to try to figure out what kinds of covers work for my genre. The problem is that I found a genre on Goodreads that seems to be a perfect fit – Heroic …