by Nick Bailey It was a dark and stormy night… reading this opening, you might be tempted to roll your eyes. But there’s a reason the phrase has endured long enough to become [...]
Hi everyone! I promise I haven’t forgotten about LitLinks. :) I’m hoping to resume my link roundup in the next couple of weeks. I’m running into tech gremlins that are keeping me from [...]
Today I’m over at the Insecure Writer’s Support Group with a post on plot devices. When done wrong, they drive me crazy. But when they’re done right, they can make a story very [...]
By Rue Matthiessen My novel, Woman with Eyes Closed, was inspired by a theft at the Kunsthal museum in 2012. Seven masterworks were stolen. Among them was a painting by Lucian Freud called [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com Creating a personal style guide can be really helpful when you’re writing in series. It was something that Penguin did for me when I wrote for them [...]
by Jenna Maeson The paranormal is a big deal in books right now. Like a really big deal. And it seems to be infiltrating all genres, even the ones that don’t usually include [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig Writers hear it all the time: establish a consistent routine. Write at the same time every day. Create a dedicated workspace. And I totally agree. My routine has helped [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com It’s a scenario every writer dreads: you’ve sent your manuscript to several beta readers, and their feedback arrives with contradictions that leave you more confused than before. One [...]
Planting Seeds for Your Mystery’s Solution by Elizabeth S. Craig The most satisfying mystery solutions can hinge on details that were hiding in plain sight all along. Mystery writers are constantly walking the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com It’s not the most glamorous writing topic, but having a system for organizing my book materials has been an absolute game-changer. After much trial and error (mostly error), [...]
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 [...]
by Nick Bailey @ReedsyHQ Every writer has that moment when they wonder: what would happen if I tried something completely different? Whether it’s Stephen King’s pivot to alternate history with 11/22/63, or Cormac [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig If you’ve written cozy mysteries (or read them) for any length of time, you’ve probably encountered this common character dynamic: your amateur sleuth is busily investigating a murder while [...]
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 [...]
I think drafting is one of those processes we have to make our own, often through trial and error. There are a few of those when you’re a writer: whether to outline [...]
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 [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin With the publication of Friends are Forever there are now 16 books in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series. I know that sounds like a lot, but the series started [...]
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 [...]
By Joanna Campbell Slan, @joannaslan Writing Through the Pandemic: Why I Decided to Include COVID-19 in My Cozy Mysteries By Joanna Campbell Slan When I began writing Mask or Raid: Book #17 [...]
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 [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig As a reader, I’ve always enjoyed a good subplot. Sometimes, it’s what’s kept me reading a book. I’ll want to see what happens in the B-story, even after I’ve [...]
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 [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve both read a book and watched a movie recently that had bad reviews because the audience thought they were going to read/watch one thing and were delivered [...]
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 [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I thought I’d share just a few things that help me make my writing life just a little easier. Maybe some of them will work for you, [...]
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 [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I was starting to write my Memphis BBQ series in about 2009 (assigned as a writer-for-hire for Penguin), I packed up and my husband and two young [...]
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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