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 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 Here’s a quick tip for those of you who already like to outline: save your outlines for your older books. I’m [...]
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 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 L. Diane Wolfe, @DancingLemurPre Online media provides us few opportunities to express ourselves in our entirety. Text gives us a voice, but what about the other senses? We can’t taste, touch, or [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today’s post doesn’t have the most exciting topic: organization. But if there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that being able to quickly put my hands on writing-related files makes [...]
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 Mike Martin, @mike54martin Darkest Before the Dawn won the 2019 Bony Blithe Award as the best light mystery of the year. Wow!! I was more than a little surprised to win. Mostly [...]
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 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 Heather Wright, @hwrightwriter Ever since I got a pink diary with a lock and key for Christmas when I was eleven, I have tried to keep a daily journal—I really have. But, [...]
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 Kristina Adams, @KristinaAuthor The voice and tone of your novel will affect who connects with your characters and what genre it fits into. It can even be the difference between someone finishing [...]
By Dan Brotzel, @brotzel_fiction I met my two collaborators, Martin and Alex, at my local writing group. By coincidence, it turned out that we all lived in the same road. As we got [...]
by Hank Quense, @hanque99 What can be more satisfying for an author than showing kids how to create a short story? That’s what I’ve been doing for the last several years in schools and [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m a fan of a series that Lifehacker is running: “How I Work.” In it, various people in different industries describe how they got where they are, what [...]
by Colleen M. Story, @colleen_m_story When your readers come to your website, how long does it take them to figure out what kind of writing you do? If it takes more than a few [...]
by David Wogahn, @Wogahn It is simple to figure out eBook royalties because there are no “manufacturing” costs. But the formula for calculating your royalty for a paperback book printed by Amazon KDP [...]
by John Kerr, @themaltesetiger Can we talk about F. Scott Fitzgerald? Author of The Great Gatsby, that American classic we all read in high school. Without a doubt, one of the most acclaimed American [...]
Hi, everyone! Today I’m guest-blogging over at Laura Smith’s blog with a post for self-publishing beginners. I’m offering 5 self-publishing basics. Hope you’ll hop over. :) Photo credit: Stuck in Customs on Visualhunt [...]
by Laura Smith, @lsmith335 Editing Is Crucial Let’s face it, even a good first draft can look like a hot mess when it’s first read. Every decent English teacher I’ve ever had has [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have a lot of sympathy for writers who get great ideas for other projects (known as SNI…Shiny New Ideas) while working on a book. When you’re [...]
by Jenny Bravo, @JennyBravoBooks We are in the age of the author. With the rise of self-publishing and hybrid publishing, authors are pumping out books more than ever. We live in a content-based world [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One cool thing about blogging for over ten years is that a lot of the posts form a sort of unexpected diary. I was glancing over some older [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re writing a cozy mystery, there are little things that come up sometimes. Writing is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure process. You have so many different choices that can take [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Happy New Year! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. One thing I like to do at the beginning of the year is planning. To me, setting up my year on [...]
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