Category: How To and Tips
Words and the French of It All
By Nan Reinhardt One day, my friend and fellow writer Liz Flaherty and I were talking about words we hate to see in books We both had a list, of course, because writers are an opinionated lot, and of course we know what’s best in any novel. Some of the words we listed? Moist. Quip. Adorable. […]
Katie Sise: Writing Process
I love reading about other writers’ writing processes, and I’m always in awe of writers who outline every book and know each plot point before they start writing. I definitely don’t do that! I write like I’m watching a movie: I have a general sense of where characters should go next, but when I throw […]
Writing All Men Glad and Wise
Laura C. Stevenson “Novel writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s needs.” J. L. Carr, Foreword to A Month in the Country. The things lying around in my memory when I first considered writing a mystery formed an unlikely mix. […]
Writing Empathy Series Part Two: Empathy For Your CHARACTER
WRITING EMPATHY SERIES: PART TWO Read part one HERE Empathy for your CHARACTER I have a bunch of best friends. Evangeline, Lyra, Mac, Calliope, Fauna. They happen to be protagonists in my novels. I love them! They’re full of life and loss, like most of us. And, like the real people in my life, I […]
Always By Your Side: My Journey to Publication By Julie Haworth
Always By Your Side: My Journey to Publication By Julie Haworth On the 9th of August 2022 my debut novel, Always By Your Side, was published by Simon & Schuster and I fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming a published author. My journey to publication was a fairly unique story in itself and one that […]
Yoga, Writing and The Liberation of Autism
Yoga, Writing and The Liberation of Autism Julia Lee Barclay-Morton In contemplating how to write about yoga and how it supports my writing process, I can’t help but see how yoga helped me function for decades as someone who did not know until age 57 that she was autistic with a side order of dyspraxia […]
Choosing Your Book Title
The importance of carefully choosing the title for your book or what I could have done better! By Jan Romes First of all, before you read further, I want to make clear with this article that what I’m about share isn’t to sell my book. It’s to confess I made a huge error when I […]
Breaking Free from Writing a Cookie Cutter Holiday Romance
Breaking free from writing a cookie cutter holiday romance By Michelle Major As the weather cools down, the anticipation for the holiday season heats up. One of the things that makes the last couple months of the year special is the familiarity and comfort people can take from celebrations and traditions we share. Yet how […]
On Transcreating By María Amparo Escandón
On Transcreating By María Amparo Escandón I grew into my teen years in Mexico City during the seventies devouring books by Latin American authors: Julio Cortazar, Mario Benedetti, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez. But I also explored other regions. There was one writer that I couldn’t get enough of: the Czech novelist Milan […]
Writing Scary Stories: Monsters 101
By Christina Hamlett Like a lot of kids, I grew up thinking that monsters lived in my closet. I had no real reason for believing this, nor did I ever ponder why they could be kept so easily at bay by a Tinkerbelle nightlight, an open bedroom door and a cadre of vigilant stuffed animals. […]
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