by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hope you’ll pop over and join me today at Nicole Basaraba’s Uni-Verse-City blog.  Nicole is running a blog series that focuses on the nuts and bolts of writing [...]

by Blythe Leszkay You’ve thought about writing a courtroom scene or a legal thriller. But maybe you don’t know how courts really work or how to use legal jargon. You’re not sure what [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I wrote a post on January 10th about the benefits of being a novelist…one being that you can write whatever you want to write, under different names. It’s [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My husband, God bless him, is a perfectionist. I had some pictures that I’d wanted to hang on one of our walls. They’re nice botanical prints. The problem [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig First a special note—yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine. The WKB is the free, searchable archive, developed by Mike Fleming, for all [...]

by Lisa Gail Green, @LisaGailGreen Lending realism to paranormal. It sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But allowing your readers to suspend their disbelief is vital if you’re writing in this genre or [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re a new writer or have recently decided to spend more time writing, you might be looking for other writers online. Plugging into the online writing community [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m always interested in finding new ways to get organized and take more control over my day. Although I’ve been busier than ever with my writing and family [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I recently got my copyedited manuscript back for the first Southern quilting mystery, which is releasing in June. I was pleased with the lack of mark-ups on the [...]

Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now over 12,000) searchable. Sign up [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve gotten a good number of questions lately via email and Twitter about my platform on Twitter. I came up with a Twitter policy last year (which sounds [...]

by Lois Winston, @anasleuth Upstairs, the front door slammed with enough force to register a five on the Richter scale. That’s the first line of Death By Killer Mop Doll, the second book [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I don’t watch much television, but I’ve always been interested in bios and documentaries on writers, musicians, and visual and performance artists. So I was watching, with interest, [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig For the last few weeks, I’ve been following a thread of posts with interest. Roni Loren had a post on January 2, referencing a Dear Author post entitled [...]

Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now over 12,000) searchable. Sign up [...]

by p.m. terrell, @BookEmNC I’ve wondered lately why I’ve had no time to blog. Then the reason occurred to me: I’m organizing a Writer’s Conference and Book Fair. The Book ‘Em conference scheduled [...]

For a while now, I’ve been interested in voice recognition software. I recently became more interested, when I started having carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms appear. My husband, a computer engineer, is also dealing [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Sometimes I think I just like to be contrary. I’m not at all fond of resolutions. When other people are making resolutions, I tend to spring clean. And [...]

Happy New Year! Hope everyone has a wonderful 2012 (with lots of writing in it!) Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software [...]