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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There’s something very satisfying about spring cleaning. I focus on looking at my house with a fresh eye, seeing the stuff that needs deep cleaning and that goes [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There’s an idiom that I often hear, that’s always bothered me a little bit. It’s about “taking the path of least resistance.” It’s usually thought of as being [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As any long-time reader of this blog will know, I love a routine. The more rote, the better. When I have these established routines, keeping up with my [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig One of the big mysteries to me when I was starting out as a writer was where the drafting “sweet spot” was. Some writers seemed to have things [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The subject of success . . . mostly how to get it . . . is a popular one for writers. When I pulled the word up in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig No matter if you’re traditionally published or self-published, you’ll be dealing with lots of writing-related business. Having done both, though, I know you’ll have a bit more as [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Here’s something writers can get behind as a goal for 2024: reading more. With all the work we do on the writing and promo ends of things, sometimes [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve talked about using planners regularly here on the blog. Although I also use a digital calendar, there’s something about seeing something physically on a page and then [...]
By Hugh Cook I’ve decided to use the format of a self-interview for this blog. So, here we go. Hugh, you’re a fiction writer, but you also do freelance editing. How did you [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s that scary time of the year again! But what do writers find scary? It turns out there are plenty of things in a writer’s life to give [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve never had a release day that wasn’t a very busy day. The main reason is that I’m responding to readers. I’ll get comments on social media and [...]
By Patricia Crisafulli, @TrishCrisafulli Writing is one thing—submitting for publication is quite another. We leave the secure world of our creativity for the unknown of an agent’s or editor’s domain. If that [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m not saying the first-book success story doesn’t happen. There are definitely the To Kill a Mockingbirds out there to prove me wrong. But I do think [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The holidays are coming up quickly and you might be feeling a little pressed for time. I guest post at the wonderful IWSG site today, talking about how [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is a myth I’ll quickly debunk. It annoys me when writers say there’s only one way to do things correctly. And I am a writer who writes daily. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s always a little frustrating to me when writers say a particular approach to writing is the only way to go. Just because something is right for you [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I remember being in my twenties, out of college and unhappy with the banking job I had. I’d been an English major and was planning on writing, but [...]
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