By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been thinking a lot lately about gaining distance from our books.  I really feel that’s vital to both editing them effectively, gaining [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve always been a big believer in being prepared (yes, I was a Girl Scout all those years ago).  I don’t like hectic mornings, so everything is organized [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The past few days haven’t been terrific and the fault for this lies squarely with me. So…I dropped my phone in water.  Apparently, [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My daughter has been horseback riding on the weekends for years now. I love that she loves it, I love the way she excels at it.  I love [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A few years ago, I got an email from a middle school student.  What was the theme of my book? At first I was just a little startled [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig By Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig Tomorrow, November 14, I’m on a panel for the Get Read online conference—a conference that’s all about helping writers learn more about effective [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s been a very long time since I’ve sold anything at 99 cents.  I’d read some blog posts that advised against it.  I’d heard readers say that it [...]

 by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]

Guest Post by Jack Smith At some point in drafting a novel, you will probably see the need to add more actions or events to complete the plot.  You know the story isn’t [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A couple of months ago, I read an interesting post on social reading: Is Social Reading the End of an Intimacy?  Porter Anderson discussed the topic on Jane [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In many ways, I’m the biggest lurker out there.  I do try to comment on friends’ blogs, but for the vast majority of the blogs I visit in [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]

 Translator Julie Rose has translated some of France’s most highly prized writers, both classical and contemporary and is best known for her critically acclaimed translation of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Misérables. Rose has [...]