Writing Acronyms in the Writing Community

You’ve joined the writing community because you’re writing, have written, or want to write. Well, let me welcome you! We have a great community here! Now, you’ve been seeing posts and interacting with people that are using writing acronyms you’ve never seen before.  It can be overwhelming joining a community and not understanding the jargon…

Social Media Schedulers for Bloggers and Writers

Social Media Schedulers are a lifesaver that grace all of us bloggers, marketers, and writers. Take one day a week, and you have a full list of content that is ready to go. Doesn’t that sound amazing?!  Well, the thing with social media schedulers is that sometimes it can be overwhelming. Which one do you…

Reckless Centaur at a Rest Stop – Mythology Writing Prompt

A new means a whole new list of writing prompts to pick from for the year! This year, I’ve crafted a list with new places and genres. What makes 2020 special, is the addition of a whole new element to these writing prompts. Character personality! That’s right, instead of writing a scene that only has…

Indie Published Books

This year, one of my goals is to read more indie published books. I’m an indie author myself, for those of you that are new to Bound to Writing (welcome!) and as I was looking at my shelf, I noticed that I don’t own many physical copies of indie published books. So this year I’m…

4 Steps to Run Book Giveaways

You’ve written your book, started marketing, and now you want to run book giveaways to increase your readership? If that sounds like you then continue reading! As I discussed in my 10 Marketing Techniques for Indie Authors, giveaways are a good way to increase interest in your book. And although I went on a tangent,…

Dear Midnight, Are You Love or Heartbreak?

Dear Midnight, There is something to say about writing late at night that intrigues me. The black skies fill me with the bravery I don’t feel during the sunlight hours. Do you understand what I mean? -Jenn Today, I’m going to be reviewing a lovely poetry collection titled, Dear Midnight. It’s by a wonderful Instagram poet…

Introducing Lindsey Holdermann

Character show-and-tell time! It’s a wonderful opportunity when I feel like I can finally share with you a character from my WIP. Now it’s time to share with you a new character. Although I haven’t been doing too much writing on any of my WIPs, I still want to introduce you to one of the…

The 12 Days of Editing

We may only be a few days until Christmas, but who says we can’t count down another important thing in our lives? Editing plays a HUGE role in our lives as writers. I mean editing takes up at least 90 percent of the writing process.  So to honor the holidays we’re going to do a…

Let the Movie Play Jarzan!

It’s time for the last writing prompt of 2019! This last year has been a fun adventure writing in many genres that I thought would be impossible. I learned a lot about myself and my own writing style throughout this writing challenge.  The best part? I’ll be doing it all again next year! That’s right!…

Why Only Write One Genre of Book?

There seems to be this unseen rule that writers can only write in one genre. That as writers our first published book sets our path for the rest of our careers. Why are we set to one path once our first publication hits the market? There is honestly no proven statistics that you will only…