by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Ah, subplots. Once you get a handle on them, you’ll solve a huge problem. You’ll be able to get your novel to the right length—without stretching your main plot [...]
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by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Have you ever tried to make a pie crust from scratch? In my experience, when you press the dough into the pie pan, there’ll be areas where the dough [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re writing a cozy mystery, there are little things that come up sometimes. Writing is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure process. You have so many different choices that can take [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I realized at some point last year that I wanted to write a new series. For one thing, it’s nice to have an additional revenue stream, especially if [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Happy New Year! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. One thing I like to do at the beginning of the year is planning. To me, setting up my year on [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although I love what I do and can’t really imagine myself doing anything else, it’s not as if the writing life isn’t stressful. It’s not all The Neighborhood [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I thought I’d cover my process for starting a new cozy series. This post isn’t intended to replace the more in-depth posts I created for developing a [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
Writing Sherlock Holmes and the Glad Game By Matt Ferraz, @Matt_Ferraz The genesis of Sherlock Holmes and the Glad Game was a challenge I made to myself: pick two public domain characters that apparently [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s been a long time since I developed a new cozy mystery series. Long enough so that I tried to remember exactly how I’d gone about it the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As a mystery writer, I’m especially fond of small town settings. I have written larger cities (notably the Memphis Barbeque series), but to make it work, I basically [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve published a couple of posts about getting your character rights back from publishers. This enables writers to continue publishing new books in a series. In my case, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s kind of interesting when you’ve been blogging as long as I have. Recently, I looked back over some of the posts from 2009 and 2010. My writing [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I usually just jump right into new projects without thinking a lot about it. I follow my outlines and I write what I’ve told myself to write each [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hope everyone had a good Halloween. Apparently I still have scary stuff on the brain. :) The subjective nature of fear: I’m not usually a fan of being [...]
by Chrys Fey, @ChrysFey Back in June Elizabeth graciously had me as a guest on her wonderful blog for 3 Things You’re Probably Not Doing on Goodreads that You Should. Shortly after that post [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig For a long time, I avoided Goodreads altogether. It’s the kind of place that makes me uncomfortable as a writer and so I figured I shouldn’t be on [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve made a point to more than double the amount of reading this year than the year before. As with my consumption of film, music, and TV, I’ve [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 48,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth Spann Craig, @elizabethscraig For years I’ve disputed the fact that music has any sort of influence on my writing at all. I think this is because, when I write, I can [...]
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