December 2, 2024
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin.bsky.social Some people believe that Christmas can only be the celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus. Others who are more secular think that it is a time to gather [...]
December 1, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
November 24, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
November 18, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig Crutch words are a funny thing. When I first started seriously writing, in the early 2000s, the overused words I leaned on were different from the ones I have [...]
November 17, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
November 11, 2024
Sharing the Books I Wrote in the Past Brings Me as Much Meaning and Purpose as Writing Them Did. Here’s Why. By Norman Shabel A fundamental question people grapple with at all stages [...]
November 11, 2024
Sharing the Books I Wrote in the Past Brings Me as Much Meaning and Purpose as Writing Them Did. Here’s Why. By Norman Shabel A fundamental question people grapple with at all stages [...]
November 10, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
November 4, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Okay, it’s more like 19 years. My first book, a Myrtle Clover, came out in 2005. But I really count my breakthrough as being in 2009 with the [...]
November 3, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
October 28, 2024
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin Where do stories come from? That’s a question I get asked a lot. So do other writers. The simple answer is that we get our stories from everywhere. Sometimes [...]
October 27, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
October 21, 2024
By Patricia Crisafulli, @TrishCrisafulli The first time I had to write a professional bio, a friend of mine staged a public-relations intervention. “This says nothing,” she said, shaking her head at the scant [...]
October 20, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
October 14, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig There’s something to be said for making mysteries less complicated. It’s no fun for the reader when the murderer is revealed, and they’re not sure who the character [...]
October 13, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
October 7, 2024
by Don Butler, @ButlerDon I once had a newspaper assignment to go to Canada’s west coast with a group searching for the rare white “spirit bear.” I never dreamed that decades later, that [...]
October 6, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
September 30, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig From time to time, other writers email me asking for my updated opinion on various translation platforms. I get it–it might seem like there are no great [...]
September 23, 2024
by Jason Brick If you’ve been a writer or aspiring writer, you’ve at least heard of crowdfunding, usually in the context of a major platform like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Backerkit, or GoFundMe. It’s [...]
September 22, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
September 16, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Feedback can be an important component of the writing process. Sometimes writers can get so wrapped-up in their stories that they can lose focus on the big picture. [...]
September 15, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
September 9, 2024
by DiAnn Mills, @diannmills Writers hear so much about deep point of view, yet we question where it fits and how to use it? Much of the curiosity is centered on today’s readers. [...]
September 8, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
September 1, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
August 26, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Over Christmas last year, I had a bit of a zoo in my house. My husband and I added a young cat to our household, bringing our total [...]
August 25, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
August 19, 2024
by Felicity Green When I first started self-publishing in 2014, I was familiar with the German book market. I had worked at small publishing companies in Zurich, as an editor and in marketing, [...]
August 18, 2024
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related [...]
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by Mike Martin, @mike54martin.bsky.social Some people believe that Christmas can only be the celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus. Others who are more secular think that it is a time to gather with family and good friends to eat and toast the season. Some also simply like to decorate, or sing carols, or drink eggnog. With or without the rum. Still others like to shop and wrap and give or receive presents. Lots of presents. So, who’s right? I think everyone should celebrate Christmas as they see fit [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig Crutch words are a funny thing. When I first started seriously writing, in the early 2000s, the overused words I leaned on were different from the ones I have now. Kind of shocking to me is the fact that I still use them at all. I’ve been writing long enough that you’d think I’d recognize what I’m doing as soon as I type one. But it rarely happens, probably because I’m in the zone and pushing words forward. When I’m editing my books, I notice [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
Sharing the Books I Wrote in the Past Brings Me as Much Meaning and Purpose as Writing Them Did. Here’s Why. By Norman Shabel A fundamental question people grapple with at all stages of life is: what brings me purpose and meaning? From a young age, one answer stood out to me: writing fiction. By the time I was in my twenties I had drafted several novels. Eventually, I penned 7 plays and 8 novels. Putting stories on paper then bringing them out into the world has always brought [...]
Sharing the Books I Wrote in the Past Brings Me as Much Meaning and Purpose as Writing Them Did. Here’s Why. By Norman Shabel A fundamental question people grapple with at all stages of life is: what brings me purpose and meaning? From a young age, one answer stood out to me: writing fiction. By the time I was in my twenties I had drafted several novels. Eventually, I penned 7 plays and 8 novels. Putting stories on paper then bringing them out into the world has always brought [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Okay, it’s more like 19 years. My first book, a Myrtle Clover, came out in 2005. But I really count my breakthrough as being in 2009 with the publication of Pretty is as Pretty Dies by Midnight Ink publishing, an imprint of Llewellyn. That’s when I started really putting everything together, both with my writing and with publishing, in general. Here are a few of my thoughts on publishing: The rise of digital reading happened a lot faster than I thought it might. And I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin Where do stories come from? That’s a question I get asked a lot. So do other writers. The simple answer is that we get our stories from everywhere. Sometimes it is just a niggling thought that circulated from the back of our mind and percolates into something bigger. At other times it could be a movie or another book we are reading that sparks our interest. But for me, most of my stories start with something I see on the news or in the media. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
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By Patricia Crisafulli, @TrishCrisafulli The first time I had to write a professional bio, a friend of mine staged a public-relations intervention. “This says nothing,” she said, shaking her head at the scant lines I had written. “Where are your accomplishments?” In the end, she had to write the first draft, and I was only allowed to edit for accuracy. Despite my long-held dreams of becoming an author and holding a book with my name on the spine, being promotional—and, more to the point, self-promotional—has always been challenging for [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig There’s something to be said for making mysteries less complicated. It’s no fun for the reader when the murderer is revealed, and they’re not sure who the character is. It’s also no fun if the mystery is so convoluted that it’s hard to follow. I’ve read a couple of mysteries lately that were very confusing. Once the puzzle was solved, I had to go back through the book to try to see how the pieces fit together. I read reviews of the books, curious [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Don Butler, @ButlerDon I once had a newspaper assignment to go to Canada’s west coast with a group searching for the rare white “spirit bear.” I never dreamed that decades later, that adventure would become a chapter in my latest murder mystery, Norman’s Conquest. But my career as a journalist has offered up countless episodes and experiences that fit perfectly into my current career as a novelist. When I was young, I wanted to be a fiction writer. Although I chose journalism as my field of study in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig From time to time, other writers email me asking for my updated opinion on various translation platforms. I get it–it might seem like there are no great options out there. As I’m writing this, I have 37 translated books and a few in the works. Although translation is not a big income generator for me, it’s rewarding to reach new readers in other languages. The translators I work with are quick, friendly, and professional. The translation publishing process, however, is nearly always a [...]
by Jason Brick If you’ve been a writer or aspiring writer, you’ve at least heard of crowdfunding, usually in the context of a major platform like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Backerkit, or GoFundMe. It’s not a new model, but it’s the most recently added model to the widening array of success options for authors. Today, Elizabeth has invited me on to discuss it. We’ll take a look at: How Crowdfunding Works The 5 Key Misconceptions About Crowdfunding 6 Top Tips for Crowdfunding Campaigns Your First Step, If You Dare to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Feedback can be an important component of the writing process. Sometimes writers can get so wrapped-up in their stories that they can lose focus on the big picture. The big picture, of course, is whether the story works or not. When I was starting out, I felt like I needed to gather insight on my writing while I was drafting. I’m not even sure I thought much about why that was important to me. I think I believed that it was the right thing [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by DiAnn Mills, @diannmills Writers hear so much about deep point of view, yet we question where it fits and how to use it? Much of the curiosity is centered on today’s readers. Fifty, a hundred or more years ago, a reader picked up a novel and said, “I want to find out what Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are doing.” Today’s reader says, “I want to be Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, or sweet Becky.” As writers, we must pay attention to how we present our stories. To determine [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Over Christmas last year, I had a bit of a zoo in my house. My husband and I added a young cat to our household, bringing our total to three: two cats and a dog. My daughter came over to spend the holiday with us, which was wonderful. She brought her two cats with her. One of her cats was not pleased with our newest addition, so the two had to be separated. Because I get up the earliest (4 or 5), I was [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Felicity Green When I first started self-publishing in 2014, I was familiar with the German book market. I had worked at small publishing companies in Zurich, as an editor and in marketing, so I knew how to write, distribute, and market a book. It made sense to write my first books in German, but I always planned to translate them. I definitely wanted to publish books in English. I’d studied Creative Writing at the University of Sussex, UK, and my first published short fiction had been in English. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was reading a mystery recently, a book that I was enjoying. It was a British police procedural with great, atmospheric settings, interesting characters, and a puzzling murder. It was also very confusing, although it didn’t start out that way. Starting out, it seemed well-organized with shifts between the POV of the victim’s girlfriend and the POV of the investigating officer. But suddenly, the reader was introduced to what seemed like the entire police station. Two characters seemed as if they might be sounding [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
Interview by Hugh Cook Cynthia Beach is the author of The Surface of Water, a timely novel published this year by InterVarsity Press. The novel presents an unflinching, lifting-the-veil portrayal of a contemporary evangelical megachurch; it reveals the damaging consequences when faith is overruled by the temptations of power and wealth. In our age of #churchtoo, the novel thus is a relevant and timely read. Cynthia Beach is interviewed by author Hugh Cook. What is the main storyline of The Surface of Water? Matthew Goodman, celebrated pastor of [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve definitely made my peace with public speaking in the last 15 years or so. It’s still usually not my most favorite activity, but I’ve gotten to the point where I enjoy sharing information and even providing some entertainment. The easiest form of public speaking is podcasts. I usually appear on a podcast at least once a year. It’s minimal prep and I can even have notes in the background. The same goes for zoom calls, recorded or not. I have a checklist for [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Hugh Cook On a rainy Saturday morning this spring, Indigo Books, Canada’s largest bookstore chain, arranged an in-store book signing for my novel Heron River. Many of you who read the blogs here on Elizabeth Craig’s site are also writers, and you may be hoping to obtain a bookstore signing yourself for your recently published or soon-to-be-published book. If you land that signing, perhaps some of what I experienced that day at Indigo Books may resonate with you. The store manager welcomed me as I entered the store [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig From everything I’ve seen online through the years, I’d say one of the biggest issues writers face is procrastination. I think the reasons behind the procrastination vary from writer to writer. One of the reasons could be perfectionism: you don’t think you can make the story in your head come alive on the page the way you want it to. Another reason could be the thought of what might seem like an insurmountable task. I recently read an interesting article about procrastination, which I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by @AngelaAckerman @WriterThesaurus Writing is no easy task, especially as it means juggling dozens of story elements at once: characters, plot, setting, dialogue, description, pacing, symbolism, you name it. And when we become so focused on bringing these things together, we may lose sight of our most important job: getting readers to bond with our characters. Our fiction can have a larger-than-life cast, a crazy-twisty plot, and fantastical setting elements, but none of this will matter if we fail to get readers to care about and invest in our [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig I’m not really sure that “self-care” was in my vocabulary 20 years ago. I would have understood the concept of it, sure, but it never would have really occurred to me to devote any time to it. At that point, I’d have had a six-year-old and a two-year-old. I was writing, squeezing it in when I could, and juggling lots of other things, too. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started putting self-care on my to-do list. That’s primarily because, despite my empty nest, it’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Jacque Rosman (Jacqueline Corcoran) People often ask me, “How do you do it all?” I’ve published 20 textbooks, over a hundred journal articles and book chapters, and I’ve written countless book-length fiction manuscripts. Out of these, my Academic Mom Mysteries were just launched with the first in a 5-book series, MURDER IN GEORGETOWN. The secret behind my productivity is that I generally work all the time. To be fair, I knew what I was getting in for, and I even chose my academic career partly because I had [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Rose Atkinson-Carter, @ReedsyHQ Pen names have been around for as long as writers have been writing and getting published. From the days of Samuel Clemens (more widely known as Mark Twain) to the ever-elusive likes of Elena Ferrante today, there are times when writers would prefer to keep their real identities a secret. Whether it’s to separate your literary career from your everyday life or to preserve your privacy, a good nom de plume has many uses. Before you spend time brainstorming the perfect pen name, consider the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer. Have you visited the WKB lately? Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and sign up for free writing articles, on topics you choose, delivered to your email inbox! Sign up for the Hiveword newsletter here. Follow the WKB [...]