by Jodie Renner, freelance editor @JodieRennerEd You’re busy creating your story world with your right brain, rolling along with the great plot and developing your characters while your muse is buzzing. Great! But [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

Thanks to John for guest posting today with some helpful tips for tweaking our stories. I’m hanging out with Teresa today, over at the Journaling Woman’s blog. Hope you’ll pop over to say [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Y’all probably won’t see me visiting online a lot this week. I’ve got a book to turn in on Friday (well, the deadline is July 1—to me, that [...]

by Emily Wenstrom, @EmilyWenstrom Putting the Cart Before the Horse Why I’m Building a Platform without a Completed Manuscript Nonfiction writers are constantly told how critical their platforms are to landing a publisher. [...]

By Mar Preston, @YesMarPreston My Dave Mason police procedural series is about the Santa Monica Police Department and the city itself, a tourist destination with a colorful background, present, and future. I love [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Jerry Last As we try to create the imaginary worlds of our books, to be believable we have to rely on reality for inspiration. I use the places I’ve lived in and [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Thursday, my daughter reminded me that she has a particular book assigned to read for a summer reading project for school. My children now usually read books on [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hi everyone! Hope you all had a good past week and are enjoying the start of your summer. I’ve had sort of a double-whammy (triple whammy?) recently. During [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

Just a quick note to let y’all know that I’ll be off the grid until my Twitterific post runs on Sunday. I’ve got some family events (all fun stuff) and a deadline I’m [...]

by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, @BryanThomasS One of the better lessons I learned about storytelling came from my time in film school at California State University, Fullerton, during lessons on story structure and plotting. [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Leslie Budewitz As the author of a book that helps writers get the details about the legal world right, I’m sometimes asked why getting it right matters. “It’s fiction,” writers say. “Why [...]

Today, I’m at a couple of different places (no, not an official blog tour, but I’ve got a few guest spots coming up that coincided with my release.) First I’ll be on P.W. [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today is the launch for the first book in a new series—Quilt or Innocence in the Southern Quilting mysteries. How often will I track its sales numbers? Rarely. [...]

by Jodie Renner, freelance editor, @JodieRennerEd Style Blunders in Fiction No, I’m not talking about the fashion police coming after you. I’m talking about those little errors and bad habits that creep into [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig. I’m currently reading a mystery (no surprise there) that I’m really enjoying:  Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet. One thing I love as a mystery reader [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was interviewed recently and one of the questions I was asked was what type of preparation or training I’d received to become a novelist. I think the [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Blogger is being obnoxious and frequently putting genuine comments into my blog’s spam folder.  I’ve rescued a few of them and have noticed that the common thread seems [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There was an article in the New York Times recently, entitled Writer’s Cramp: In the e-Reader era, a Book a Year is Slacking. Obviously, this is a provocative [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was working away on the fourth Memphis book yesterday, writing an important scene for the book. It’s a scene where a suspect gives important information to my [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’d just finished my daily goal for my fourth Memphis book on Thursday when I had a sudden uneasy feeling about the third quilting mystery. When was that [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Cozy mysteries, also known as traditional mysteries, are lots of fun to write.  But there are some challenges authors will face while writing them. Hope you’ll join me [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re like me, you have a love/hate relationship with social media. I love being connected with other writers and resources—but I hate the way it sucks up [...]

by Sandra Gardner Since character and story are major elements in a novel, your primary concern as a novelist is to figure out who your characters are, what their motivations are, and where [...]