I’m at Topsail Beach this week in North Carolina on vacation.\u00c2\u00a0 I may be taking a break from my day to day responsibilities but I’ve not been taking a break from my writing.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the workshops I attended at The Muse Online Writers Conference was “Write that Bio With Sheri Gormley”.\u00c2\u00a0 Sheri is the Director of Marketing and Promotions for Virtual Tales<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Authors are told repeatedly to have a web presence before their first work sells but few know what to include on a web site.\u00c2\u00a0 One thing\u00c2\u00a0all author sites\u00c2\u00a0should all have in common is the biography.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s difficult for some writers to talk\/write about themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 What information will the reader find interesting?\u00c2\u00a0 With the tips I learned at the workshop I updated my bio page.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Another workshop I attended was “Organizing Your Writing Life with Cheryl Malandrinos”.\u00c2\u00a0 Cheryl<\/a> is a freelancer, copywriter and aspiring author\u00c2\u00a0who understands how the writer’s mind works since she’s one herself.\u00c2\u00a0 One of her tips was to take a SMART goal and break it down into smaller tasks.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It sounds so simple but a lot of people get hung up on the volume of tasks and never get started.\u00c2\u00a0 One of my SMART goals was to hit my daily word count in November.\u00c2\u00a0 In order to accomplish this, I’ve brought my character pyramid sheets with me and I’ll have my characters interviewed before the week is done.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve already begun the interview process and been surprised by some of the answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m at Topsail Beach this week in North Carolina on vacation.\u00c2\u00a0 I may be taking a break from my day to day responsibilities but I’ve not been taking a break from my writing.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the workshops I attended at The Muse Online Writers Conference was “Write that Bio With Sheri Gormley”.\u00c2\u00a0 Sheri is the… Continue reading More on The Muse Online Writers Conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,54],"tags":[66,10],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-writing","tag-the-muse-online-writers-conference","tag-workshop","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}