Anessa Books

Anessa Books I am a book coach and formatter for indie-authors. I teach others how to format, edit, and guide new authors through the maze that is self-publishing.

How do you write? With what medium? Do you type on your laptop or write longhand? I am here to advocate for writing by h...
03/08/2025

How do you write? With what medium? Do you type on your laptop or write longhand? I am here to advocate for writing by hand. There are a great many advantages to doing so: 1. It’s good for your brain When you write by hand, more neurons are firing in your brain than when you type. Just the fact that you need to form twenty-six different shapes gets that brain working....

How do you write? With what medium? Do you type on your laptop or write longhand? I am here to advocate for writing by hand. There are a great many advantages to doing so: 1. It’s good for your brain When you write by hand, more neurons are firing in your brain than when you type. […]

It's been a while since I've written about how to start a novel but since I'm working with a new coaching client who is ...
27/07/2025

It's been a while since I've written about how to start a novel but since I'm working with a new coaching client who is going through this right now, I thought it couldn't hurt to share what I'm doing with her. How you begin a novel very much depends on whether you're a plotter (who plans out the whole book before they write a word) or a pantser (who writes by simply sitting down at a computer and writes with no knowledge of where their story is going to go—as Stephen King says, you write until you get to the end)....

It’s been a while since I’ve written about how to start a novel but since I’m working with a new coaching client who is going through this right now, I thought it couldn’t hurt to share what I’m doing with her. How you begin a novel very much depends on whether you’re a plotter (who […...

I am at That stage of writing my novel: Editing. You either love editing or hate it. It is taking your words and ideas a...
20/07/2025

I am at That stage of writing my novel: Editing. You either love editing or hate it. It is taking your words and ideas and refining them. It is looking at the forest after you've spent months in the weeds. It's hard. It's painful. But it can be exciting too—you might find that the scene you slaved over reads smoothly and adds so much to your story....

I am at That stage of writing my novel: Editing. You either love editing or hate it. It is taking your words and ideas and refining them. It is looking at the forest after you’ve spent months in the weeds. It’s hard. It’s painful. But it can be exciting too—you might find that the scene […...

Rachel Toalson wrote a wonderful blog post for Writer UnBoxed. It’s about getting to the heart of your story — why you w...
13/07/2025

Rachel Toalson wrote a wonderful blog post for Writer UnBoxed. It’s about getting to the heart of your story — why you wrote it and why readers will remember it long after they finished reading it. Sometimes it’s really hard finding the heart of your story. If you start with a what-if situation, an idea for a plot, or simply just your main character, it’s so easy to get caught up in developing that situation, plot, or character, I mean, that’s what you’re writing, right?...

Rachel Toalson wrote a wonderful blog post for Writer UnBoxed. It’s about getting to the heart of your story — why you wrote it and why readers will remember it long after they finished reading it. Sometimes it’s really hard finding the heart of your story. If you start with a what-if situatio...

Does your mystery novel have a romance in it? Does your speculative fiction have a mystery element? Does your romance ta...
06/07/2025

Does your mystery novel have a romance in it? Does your speculative fiction have a mystery element? Does your romance take place on another planet? It seems that there's a lot of cross-genre writing going on. I attribute this to indie- publishing. Traditional publishing houses used to refuse books that transversed genres claiming that they wouldn't know which shelf to put it on (my own Regency-set fantasy romance was rejected for this reason twenty years ago)....

Does your mystery novel have a romance in it? Does your speculative fiction have a mystery element? Does your romance take place on another planet? It seems that there’s a lot of cross-genre writing going on. I attribute this to indie- publishing. Traditional publishing houses used to refuse books...

There was recently a discussion on the Regency Fiction Writers’ forum concerning historical accuracy. For a group whose ...
29/06/2025

There was recently a discussion on the Regency Fiction Writers’ forum concerning historical accuracy. For a group whose courses mostly teach accurate historical detail (everything from architecture to dancing to cookery), there were a number of authors who commented that they didn’t believe a historical novel needed to be 100% accurate. The discussion began with someone looking for a name for a Regency romance as lacking in accuracy as the Bridgerton television show....

There was recently a discussion on the Regency Fiction Writers’ forum concerning historical accuracy. For a group whose courses mostly teach accurate historical detail (everything from architecture to dancing to cookery), there were a number of authors who commented that they didn’t believe a hi...

I could have written this article with AI or had AI write it for me. The question is, is that right? Ethical? How much A...
22/06/2025

I could have written this article with AI or had AI write it for me. The question is, is that right? Ethical? How much AI should an author use? To answer this question, I did some research into AI writing tools. Let me tell you, there are a lot! A lot more than I anticipated. And what’s interesting is that each one specializes in some different aspect of writing....

I could have written this article with AI or had AI write it for me. The question is, is that right? Ethical? How much AI should an author use? To answer this question, I did some research into AI writing tools. Let me tell you, there are a lot! A lot more than I anticipated. […]

If you write every morning for half an hour before work, you’ve got a writing routine. Do you decide on a weekly goal to...
15/06/2025

If you write every morning for half an hour before work, you’ve got a writing routine. Do you decide on a weekly goal to write so many words? That would be a writing routine. Do you tell yourself that you’re going to get a scene written every day and then do so? You’ve got a routine. If you have a writing routine, kudos to you!...

If you write every morning for half an hour before work, you’ve got a writing routine. Do you decide on a weekly goal to write so many words? That would be a writing routine. Do you tell yourself that you’re going to get a scene written every day and then do so? You’ve got a […]

I use Comcast as my internet provider. Recently, they emailed me (perhaps you got it too?) telling me that the internet ...
08/06/2025

I use Comcast as my internet provider. Recently, they emailed me (perhaps you got it too?) telling me that the internet speed I pay for is more than my modem can handle. So I'm paying for 1 gbps, but only getting a fraction of that because my modem is too old and slow. They were trying to get me to rent a modem from them, but instead I bought a new modem from another retailer and a new mesh network that can handle the faster wifi....

I use Comcast as my internet provider. Recently, they emailed me (perhaps you got it too?) telling me that the internet speed I pay for is more than my modem can handle. So I’m paying for 1 gbps, but only getting a fraction of that because my modem is too old and slow. They were […]

A blog post on Writers in the Storm (which has quickly become my favorite writing blog) got me thinking (as all good blo...
01/06/2025

A blog post on Writers in the Storm (which has quickly become my favorite writing blog) got me thinking (as all good blog posts should, really). The post was called “The Tools Have Changed But Your Voice Still Matters.” And it details how, in even as few as five years ago, blogging and how readers find your blog has changed....

A blog post on Writers in the Storm (which has quickly become my favorite writing blog) got me thinking (as all good blog posts should, really). The post was called “The Tools Have Changed But Your Voice Still Matters.” And it details how, in even as few as five years ago, blogging and how reade...

One of the most nerve wracking part of being a self-published author is… well, the publishing! Pressing that button to p...
25/05/2025

One of the most nerve wracking part of being a self-published author is… well, the publishing! Pressing that button to put your work out there for the whole world to see. But even before you can press that all-important button, you need to put in all the information you want the world to see and ensure that they do, in fact, see it....

One of the most nerve wracking part of being a self-published author is… well, the publishing! Pressing that button to put your work out there for the whole world to see. But even before you can press that all-important button, you need to put in all the information you want the world to see and [...

What makes a villain? Does someone like the mustache twirling character from cartoons come to mind? Or perhaps it’s Mr. ...
11/05/2025

What makes a villain? Does someone like the mustache twirling character from cartoons come to mind? Or perhaps it’s Mr. Goldfinger (pictured here)? Is your villain a thoroughly evil character or just someone who wants to ensure your protagonist doesn’t get what they want either because they want it too or for some other reason either benign or not? If you want your villain to be like the cartoon character, that’s fine, just know that your readers will be very aware that the character is not real and possibly not believable....

What makes a villain? Does someone like the mustache twirling character from cartoons come to mind? Or perhaps it’s Mr. Goldfinger (pictured here)? Is your villain a thoroughly evil character or just someone who wants to ensure your protagonist doesn’t get what they want either because they want...

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