by Bill Hopkins, @JudgeHopkins Favorite Points of View:   FIRST PERSON First person: This is a story that is usually narrated by the protagonist. If you use this, then your first sentence–or certainly [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m not going to say that all writers are a little foggy when it comes to the business side of writing. But I will say that many writers [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Gabriela Pereira, @DIYMFA Some writers love doing prompts. They sit in writing classes, pencils poised to start writing the moment the teacher gives an assignment. And when time is up, they shoot [...]

By Joanne Sydney Lessner, @joannelessner Earlier this month, SerialSleuths, Volume 1: Haunted hit the Kindle shelves. The brainchild of Jen Blood, author of the Erin Solomon mysteries, this short story collection features five [...]

By Peggy Williams & Mary Joy Johnson Ever want to kill your partner? Life partner? Business partner? Bridge partner?  Instead of wanting to kill each other, the writing partnership M. J. Williams regularly [...]

Passion, lucidity and tenacity: keys to being a writer   Anne Trager, founder of Le French Books, talks with international bestselling author Frédérique Molay   Imagine writing a book in your spare hours, [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigWhen I read writing rules posts, they usually remind me of the old grammar rules.  You know, like: i before e, except after c…but there are exceptions.  There are [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The last few years, I’ve kept a very strict writing schedule—mostly because of the deadlines that I had from the two imprints I was working for, Penguin NAL/Obsidian [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigEvery time I read a great post on cliffhangers, I feel a little sorry that I don’t write too many of them.  It can make for a thrilling chapter [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigThe other night, I watched a mystery on television.  The actors were good, the puzzle itself was good,  and the setting—a boarding school— was interesting. The problem that I [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigI’d been wanting to read something a little different, so I glanced through my TBR (to be read) list.  Keith Richards’ Life was on there, and I figured I [...]

By Anne Trager, the founder of Le French Book, @LeFrenchBookI recently translated a fun, classic whodunit from French into English for Le French Book. It’s called Treachery in Bordeaux and was written by [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig  MorgueFile: xenia I received an email a week ago from one of my blog readers.  She said that she repeatedly heard the advice that writers needed to [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigMy editor emailed me last week to see if she could get the first chapter for the next book in the series to include as a teaser for the [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigI’m always interested in seeing what my children bring home as English homework. My daughter had an assignment a couple of weeks ago where she had to identify four [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigI read in the Charlotte Observer recently that there was a new radio station in town…an oldies station.  I was glad to hear the news—I remember thinking that there [...]