National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo 2017 officially kicked off today. With a goal of writing 50,000 words in 30 days NaNoWriMos take on a huge task. If you have hopped on this crazy writing train or are thinking of joining the movement, here are 11 tips to help you succeed. Tip #1 Start Writing... Continue Reading →
Halloween always brings out my creative side and keeps my Muse working overtime, but if you’re having trouble getting started on this All Hallows' Eve, I’ve got a list of writing prompts to help you get started. Your pumpkin starts talking to you after you carve it. Tell the story of Halloween from the candy’s... Continue Reading →
My new book Insomnia was released on October 16, 2017. Insomnia is a collection of poetry by author Michelle C. Hillstrom. It is at night when we lay in the dark, waiting to fall asleep, that our thoughts can drift off and begin thinking about the things we try to push away in the light... Continue Reading →
Something exciting has just happened. A possible new opportunity to grow my writing career and reach more people with my novels. I belong to a Facebook book club called “Lady Leathernecks & Paperbacks,” (a Female Marine Book Club), and one of the members posted asking if any of the other members were writers. (Hello! Yours... Continue Reading →
I’ve seen this question posed in several writing groups lately by people who want to become writers, “How do you start writing?” As if there is some top-secret magic trick that we writers have been holding out on the world. The secret is... you just start writing. That’s it. If you want to write, you... Continue Reading →
I’ve been trying to focus on Marketing and making more book sales. For the next seven days “A Kiss of Betrayal: Élisabet’s Story (Book Three of The Kiss Series)” will be on sale for $2.99 marked down from $4.99. I’ve been basically spamming every writing and reading group that I belong to on Facebook with... Continue Reading →
Today's blog topic is why self-publishing may or may not be for you. I personally chose to self-publish because the most important thing to me is getting my books into the hands of readers. I want to write and share my stories with the world. For me, being an author isn’t about the prestige of... Continue Reading →
Today Writer’s Chapter met for our weekly meeting. Writer’s Chapter is just a small group of local writers who get together once a week to talk about writing, the writing business, and to work on our writing in a social environment. It gets us out and helps us to emerge from our dark, lonely writing... Continue Reading →
I’ve been MIA for a while now. Blogging always seems to get pushed aside and pushed to the bottom of my to-do list. Wouldn’t it be nice if things just took care of themselves once in a while? Ya know… like day jobs and bill payments? But more than anything it has been my health... Continue Reading →
Gothic Literature is a sub-genre of romanticism consisting of novels and short stories, which emerged between 1800 and 1850. Gothic Literature focuses on the grotesque, desolate, and mysterious usually including supernatural or horror motifs to show the evil inside of humans. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Joyce Carol Oates use settings, events, and characters... Continue Reading →
Michelle C. Hillstrom - Author 