Category: How To and Tips
5 Reasons Why… Suburban Life is Irresistible to a Suspense Writer!
5 Reasons Why… Suburban Life is Irresistible to a Suspense Writer! By Clare Boyd Most writers dream of penning their novels at a wooden desk in a sun-filled room with a view of the sea. That’s not where I long to be. I’m happy to be stuck in my damp shed in suburbia. This is […]
Falling in Love with the Supporting Cast By Valerie Taylor
Falling in Love with the Supporting Cast By Valerie Taylor Do you believe in coincidences? I do. Let me tell you why. Coming up with a unique blog topic these days can be a challenging and head-scratching proposition. Granted, with Google at our fingertips, it shouldn’t be all that difficult for authors. All it takes […]
Passion/Obsession: A Metaphor for Writing?
Passion/Obsession: A Metaphor for Writing? T.M. Dunn I often tell my students, “If you’re not passionate about your story, don’t write it.” This doesn’t mean at 2 AM, on umpteenth revision, you give up. In the case of the late night, early morning, writer’s blues, don’t give up, go to bed. As any Law and […]
Jumping Through Social Media Hoops (and Why I’d Rather Not)
Jumping Through Social Media Hoops (and Why I’d Rather Not) On the day that I’m writing this article, the final copies of my third novel arrived at my front door. Or, more accurately I suppose I should say at my parents’ front door (I live in an apartment building, so to avoid the possibility that […]
Where do you get your Ideas from? By Tríona Walsh
Where do you get your ideas from? Like many writers and would-be writers, I’m voracious in my consumption of anything writing related. Interviews, podcasts, blogposts, anywhere writers talk about their writing and writing lives, I’m there. An article like this, for instance, would be just the thing! During this obsessive deep-dive, I’ve noticed there is […]
Second Acts, by Jill Piscitello
Second Acts, by Jill Piscitello Most authors will tell you they’ve loved writing since they were children. I’m no exception. But pursuing a career as an author always seemed impractical. Somewhere around the age of twenty, I caught the tiniest glimmer that publishing a book was possible. Another college semester had ended, and I was […]
Ten Lessons about Writing Memoir that I Learned from Reading Memoirs
Ten Lessons about Writing Memoir that I Learned from Reading Memoirs Dian Seidel Memoirs never appealed to me much…until I accidentally started writing one. When a writing coach told me my short essays could be the basis for a memoir, I figured I’d better educate myself about the genre. So I read lots of memoirs, […]
Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book
Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book by Laura Whitfield I participated in my first literary festival last weekend as part of a panel about finding fun and taking risks. During the event the moderator asked, “What was fun about writing your book?” “I can’t say that writing my book was fun,” I […]
Five Truths on Technology, Creativity & the Power of Human Stories
By Kris Spisak A lot of headlines scream for our attention these days. Some caterwaul about how writers no longer have a place in the world. Others claim storytelling will be hijacked by modern technology. But here’s the truth rarely in the conversation: Creativity is the essence of humanity itself. It’s how we have survived. […]
My Writing Journey by KD Sherrinford
KD Sherrinford- My writing journey. A voracious reader from an early age. I became fascinated by the works of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I read the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon by the time I was 13. I was a shy, introverted child; always found in the library with my head in a […]
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