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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Penny Sansevieri, @bookgal The following is an excerpt from Penny Sansevieri’s newly released book, How to Sell Books by the Truckload on Amazon – 2020 Updated Edition! Learn how to turn Amazon [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In every cozy mystery, there comes a time when the sleuth puts together various clues and realizes who the perpetrator is. But the timing of this revelation can [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is one of those posts that will only help a very specific group of writers, but I thought I’d throw it out there since the issue is [...]
by Lucia Tang with @Reedsy Let’s start with a note of clarification. This is a post for writing child characters, not for literal children hoping to write their own books. Still, any precocious, [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Red herrings, or false leads, can add a lot to a mystery and serve different purposes. How red herrings add to mysteries: They make the mystery more complex. [...]
by Hank Quense, @hanque99 The best way to improve your manuscript is to show it to other writers. This article discusses the role of beta readers and it ends with a list of questions [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I somehow let ten years of blogging slip by last year, but I’m noting my eleventh now. Well, it also slipped by about a month ago, but at [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I came back from my France trip in July, several people asked me if I was planning to ‘take Myrtle on a trip to Paris.’ Although I [...]
by Jane Bennett Munro Medical practice, particularly pathology practice, is rife with jargon. I can’t not use it; that would destroy the authenticity. I don’t want to dumb it down; that would be [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve posted a lot recently on writing for an audience and writing to genre conventions. As I’ve posted, there’s been a little uneasiness on my end…because some writers don’t [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Here’s a quick tip for those of you who already like to outline: save your outlines for your older books. I’m [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Wow. We’ve covered a lot of ground in this four-part blog series on how to handle the stakes in a cozy mystery. (By the way, although the illustrative [...]
by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Standalone or series. It’s a dilemma that many novelists face. But for authors of cozy mysteries, the decision’s almost a foregone conclusion: series. By all accounts, that’s what [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Handling the stakes in a mystery with an unlikeable victim isn’t entirely a straightforward affair. On one hand, when the victim is unlikeable, you’ll have puh-lenty of suspects, which [...]
by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Here’s the scenario: You’re writing a cozy mystery. And your victim is unlikeable. Your suspect list is, as they say, healthy. You’re having a blast coming up with motives [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s easy to read a bit of self-righteousness into posts where writers tell other writers to write every day. Or maybe it’s smugness. Or maybe it’s not really [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Sometimes it’ll seem like I have a streak of weeks where I really don’t have any free time at all. The days are somehow eaten up with writing, [...]
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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Chelsea Thomas Hello! My name is Chelsea Thomas and I’m the author of the Apple Orchard cozy mystery series. When I started writing this series, I learned a lot about the various [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is another one of those posts that comes with a proviso…as a writer, you’re in control of your book and no one else makes the rules. 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 50,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
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