by Nina Amir, @NinaAmir There are many reasons for novelists to enter the realm of nonfiction. However, moving into this unknown territory can feel hard and scary, especially for those who like to [...]
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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 [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Transition issues are common problems in first drafts (later drafts, too). I’ve been guilty of a couple of different transition fouls in past manuscripts. Transitions that are too [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The last time I ran a post on mistakes I’d made, it helped illuminate areas I’d fallen behind on so that I could stick them on my calendar [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search alengine(developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As I’ve mentioned before, I have a love-hate relationship with outlining. For me and the speed with which I’m writing, it’s become a necessary evil. But I dislike [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search alengine(developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search alengine(developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
Guest Post by Jack Smith Robert Garner McBrearty, author of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Prize for his collection Episode, recently shared a technique he’s been using to draft a novel. Write the whole [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I spoke to students recently, they asked a lot of questions and some very good ones. Naturally, though, one of the questions, which won’t surprise any writer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search alengine(developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I recently read an interesting novel—I won’t say which one, since I’d be spoiling the ending. The most important character in the book was killed in an ending [...]
By Jennifer Brown Banks, @jenpens2 There’s great truth to the expression, “You should walk a mile in someone else’s shoes to understand them.” Which is why I’m very fortunate, that when it comes [...]
by Deborah Nam-Krane, @dnkboston It took me almost six years to publish my series The New Pioneers, even though I had four completed novels. Part of my delay was that it takes a number [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There are many things that I really like about writing series. For one, readers seem to love them. I think that’s because they have more of an opportunity [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was sitting with the other parents watching my daughter’s horseback riding lesson when one of the moms there asked me if I was always inspired when I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig And now for a very brief public service announcement. Please back up your work. What way is easiest for you? There are so many options. The best way [...]
by Aaron Sikes, @SikesAaron Many thanks to Elizabeth for hosting me today. My noir urban fantasy, Gods of Chicago, is currently on tour. Since I’m also an editor, Elizabeth asked me to share [...]
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 [...]
by Barry Knister, @barryknister When I first decided to write a mystery series, the initial problem I faced didn’t have to do with writing. It had to do with the crime business. I’m [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It must have been 2011 when I was first asked to write an outline of a book for an editor. At that point I’d written four or five [...]
by C. S. Lakin, @CSLakin I ask a lot of questions in my line of work as a professional manuscript critiquer and copyeditor. Sure, I also give a lot of suggestions and fix [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Last year, I received a contract extension for my Southern Quilting mysteries—Penguin wanted two more books. So I knew that the series would last through 2015 and then [...]
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 [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I received an email last week from a writer who is feeling a little overwhelmed by the revision process and asked if I’d written any posts that helped [...]
by Delia Brendan, @deliabrendan Years ago, I went to a plotting workshop. The workshop leader described a process involving white poster board and multi-colored sticky notes. She described how each sticky note color corresponded [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There’s an interesting phenomenon when you comb through your RSS reader—even if you have a large number of blogs that you’re following. Sometimes it’s as if everyone got [...]
by Becca Puglisi, @BeccaPuglisi Since Angela Ackerman and I wrote our last book, The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Attributes, I’ve been thinking a lot about personality traits and how [...]
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