by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I’m guest-posting at the Insecure Writer’s Support Group blog with seven best practices for self-publishing success. The Insecure Writer’s Support Group was founded by writer Alex J. [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I used to be a big fan of writing each book in my different series as a standalone. I liked the fact that readers could pick up any [...]
By Dina Santorelli, @DinaSantorelli So you’ve won an award for your book. Very cool. You should be congratulated not just for winning, but for having the gumption to enter that competition in the [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One thing about the holidays is that I’m always around people a lot more than I usually am. In fact, I really can’t think of a time in [...]
Guest Post by Aidyl Ewoh, @aidylEwoh Serious young writers are a lot more common than most people seem to realize, although maybe that’s because we’re all hidden away writing! I am part of an [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Happy 2014 everyone! And, like everyone else on the internet, I have advice for making it a better year. :) I actually had a different post I planned [...]
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 topics. It’s [...]
Aside from my Twitterific writing link round-ups on Sundays, I’m going to take a blogging break until January 1. After taking a long look at my to-do list (which includes Christmas and a [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I received an email last week from a busy writer with a full-time job and young children. She asked if I could provide some tips for squeezing writing [...]
by Joe Benevento In Edgar Allan Poe’s third and final story featuring C. Auguste Dupin, “The Purloined Letter,” Dupin explains to the narrator why the police were unable to find the letter in [...]
by Mike Martin I know you are not supposed to, but I do judge a book, at least whether I am going to buy it or not, based on the picture on the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In many ways, my children have been a blessing to me. There are all the big reasons they are…and a smaller one: they’re nothing at all like me. [...]
Guest Post by Jack Smith Let’s say you want to create an ironic tone in a story or novel—it’s just needed. First off, what is tone? On the one hand, we might say that [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One thing that’s nice about having older children is that they can take over household tasks that we’re either not excited about, or just don’t do well. This [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Writer Lynda R. Young wrote a great post for the Insecure Writers Support Group: 4 Reasons to Celebrate Your Writing Milestones. In it, she talks about the benefits [...]
Guest Post by Bryan Cohen When my wife and I moved into our latest apartment a few years ago, we made sure to get a place with a second bedroom. I planned to [...]
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 By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been thinking a lot lately about gaining distance from our books. I really feel that’s vital to both editing them effectively, gaining [...]
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’ve always been a big believer in being prepared (yes, I was a Girl Scout all those years ago). I don’t like hectic mornings, so everything is organized [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The past few days haven’t been terrific and the fault for this lies squarely with me. So…I dropped my phone in water. Apparently, [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My daughter has been horseback riding on the weekends for years now. I love that she loves it, I love the way she excels at it. I love [...]
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 A few years ago, I got an email from a middle school student. What was the theme of my book? At first I was just a little startled [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig By Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig Tomorrow, November 14, I’m on a panel for the Get Read online conference—a conference that’s all about helping writers learn more about effective [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s been a very long time since I’ve sold anything at 99 cents. I’d read some blog posts that advised against it. I’d heard readers say that it [...]
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 [...]
Guest Post by Jack Smith At some point in drafting a novel, you will probably see the need to add more actions or events to complete the plot. You know the story isn’t [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A couple of months ago, I read an interesting post on social reading: Is Social Reading the End of an Intimacy? Porter Anderson discussed the topic on Jane [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In many ways, I’m the biggest lurker out there. I do try to comment on friends’ blogs, but for the vast majority of the blogs I visit in [...]
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