by Lucia Tang with @Reedsy Let’s start with a note of clarification. This is a post for writing child characters, not for literal children hoping to write their own books. Still, any precocious, [...]
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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 Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is the second post in a short series about making our lives easier as writers. One thing that I’ve tried to be more conscious of as the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m running a short blog series on making your life easier as a writer. I’m planning on sharing a few tips that I’ve learned over the years (often [...]
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 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 Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I finish writing a book, I follow a particular routine to get it into shape for publication. In case my process helps anyone else, I thought I’d [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There are a variety of things that can slow you down as you write. I’m not sure how many writing sessions in the past have been derailed by [...]
by Zoe M. McCarthy, @ZoeMMcCarthy If you don’t backload a satisfying ending to your story, readers may not buy your next book. We’ll look at tips for a satisfying ending scene(s). When I say [...]
by Becca Puglisi, @beccapuglisi Fight or flight. I think we’ve all heard this phrase. It refers to the way each person is hard-wired to respond to real or perceived danger. Psychologists have recently [...]
by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Oh, no. You just took a look at your outline or draft. It’s definitely too short. Or, in a different scenario, it’s long enough. But, unfortunately, it’s rather bland. [...]
by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Ah, subplots. Once you get a handle on them, you’ll solve a huge problem. You’ll be able to get your novel to the right length—without stretching your main plot [...]
by H.R. D’Costa, @scribesworld Have you ever tried to make a pie crust from scratch? In my experience, when you press the dough into the pie pan, there’ll be areas where the dough [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As a mystery writer, I’m especially fond of small town settings. I have written larger cities (notably the Memphis Barbeque series), but to make it work, I basically [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hope everyone had a good Halloween. Apparently I still have scary stuff on the brain. :) The subjective nature of fear: I’m not usually a fan of being [...]
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, @kaath09 Hello, my name is Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, and I’m a recovering research-aholic. I know that research addiction is common among writers of speculative fiction (genres that begin with ”what [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin All fiction requires the reader to suspend belief in order to follow the story. You have to pretend that you are in a different location with people that you don’t [...]
By Jeffrey Eaton, author of the “Murder Becomes” series, @murderbecomes Each year, more than one million books get released by publishing houses and self-published authors. You read that right – more than one million [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve written several books that were pretty short. I realized they were short (around 50-53,000 words) and took a closer look at the stories. I didn’t see a [...]
by HL Carpenter, @hl_carpenter We think about how much writing styles change over the years every time we open one of the books on our reading shelf—a book that was published in 1908. [...]
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 45,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Caleb Kaiser, @ReedsyHQ Word count is one of those things you don’t think about when you start writing the first page of your novel. It’s only after your book is completed, when [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Every once in a while, I’ll grind to a halt with my story. I’ll either want to flesh out a subplot or develop the main plot a bit [...]
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 45,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Some of you may not know this because I do have a culinary mystery series and was on a food blog for a long time…but I don’t consider [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I work on story subplots two different ways. Sometimes I write them in as I go, including them in the text. Sometimes I write them out separately on [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I was a kid, there was one part of Cinderella that baffled me. The clock struck midnight and Cinderella, in a panic, cries out that it’s late [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m a fan of series…both reading and writing them. As a reader, though, it really bothered me when my favorite series would get stale or if I felt [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read an interesting article by James Preston titled “How to Get to Carnegie Hall. ” Preston used an old joke as the basis of the piece: A [...]
by Angela Ackerman, @AngelaAckerman When it comes to writing a story where a character is going to work through a difficult past wound, there are two behavioral states to convey: one showing their brokenness [...]
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