By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Friday I spoke to a book club in my hometown of Anderson, South Carolina.  It was a great group and a very well-established one—it had been founded 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 [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hi everyone.  Hope you all have a great weekend.  I’ve got a guest post today at the We Wanted to be Writers blog–they have an interesting feature called [...]

by Stephen McCutchan, @stevemccutchan A Good Mystery A good mystery helps restore order and makes sense out of something that is unexplainable in our society. People do not like to live in a [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although I don’t do a ton of interviews, I probably do a live or recorded interview every few months.  I especially like the recorded ones because I figure [...]

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 On Monday’s post, I received a comment from Colleen…she was interested in hearing more about balancing or approaching life as a hybrid writer—someone who is both traditionally published [...]

Guest Post by James Mullen I’ve started to sketch out the plot for my second book.  The book is a police procedural based in Boston, and although I visit the area frequently, I [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As I mentioned last week, I recently turned in a teaser chapter and an outline to one of my Penguin editors.  This particular editor likes to see an [...]

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 dislike writing setting and description, but I used to absolutely despise it.  I’ve got plenty of now-published manuscripts in my Word archives with helpful editorial direction on [...]

 Guest Post by Deborah Sharp First, I must recognize Mystery Writing is Murder as the fantastic resource it is for me, and for countless others. Much thanks to Elizabeth for her fantastic blog, [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Last December I was at a Christmas drop-in and was hanging out near the back of the room…my favorite haunt at social events.  This spot is even better [...]

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 wanted to share some sites that I’ve found really helpful lately.  I’m always looking for ways to save time using apps and, so frequently, I seem to [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I had a deadline Sunday that I met just in the nick of time. :)  It was a deadline for a teaser chapter—the first chapter in my current [...]

Guest Post by Jack Smith Dialogue Tags What about “he said”/”she said”—do you need them?  Or perhaps the character’s name instead of the pronoun?  How much of either is needed?  How much is [...]

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 This post will be short and sweet because…I’ve gotten a little behind with everything this week.  :) And the odd thing is that this is back to school [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The business side of writing is my least favorite part.  I struggle to keep up.  And there’s sort of a residual guilt that I’m not doing all I [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I think when writers ask how many drafts another writer completes for a finished story, they’re really wondering whether they’re spending too much time editing or too little [...]

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 Wednesday, I was the only adult in the line of about 100 junior year high school students in front of the counselor’s office.    The students were all [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been asked a few times lately to write a post about how I outline, since I’ve recently been talking about outlining. This is something I’ve been reticent [...]

by K.M. Weiland (@KMWeiland) I’m sometimes asked which is more important: plot or character. This is a misleading question, at its foundation. Not only are plot and character equally important, they’re also interdependent [...]

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 As you know, I’ve been a very reluctant convert to outlining.  I look for ways in which outlining doesn’t work for me. Instead, I keep coming across proof [...]

 by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This year, I will have at least four, maybe five (the fifth will be pushing it) releases.  Three are traditionally published, I’ve got one new self-pub release,  and [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I usually do all of my link sharing on Sundays, but I thought what I’d do today is to share a couple of recent links I’ve found helpful…and [...]

 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 20,000 free articles on writing related [...]