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 [...]
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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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