Category: How To and Tips
The 5 Deadly Sins of Women Writers
by Carmen Amato The world needs the creativity and ideas that are uniquely yours to offer. If any of these deadly sins put your progress on hold, kick it to the curb as fast as you can. Envy “Look at her. She’s doing much better than me.” Said every woman writer at least once. You […]
Post-it Notes, Planning and Plotting: Finding the Method in the Madness of Writing a Novel
Louisa Scarr I am currently two weeks into writing a new novel, at the juxtaposition where my vision of the masterpiece is the furthest possible point from the jumble of words on my screen. I know the story (kind of). I know the twists and turns (ish). But getting to a finished novel? Well. It […]
Thank You, Carolyn See: Learning To Make My Own Literary Life
How do we come by all of these writing books? Because most writers do not go out and buy a library of books all at once. Rather, they come into our lives one book at a time. We accrue the basics via instructors, classes, friends or resources listed in the back of other books. New […]
My Writing Process By Nina Restieri
From the outside, it looked like she had it all figured out, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing, which made her miserable – and being miserable made her feel guilty. Looking around, she realized that most of the other moms she knew were hiding their own overwhelm, sadness, and stress behind […]
How I Improved My Writing And Found My Writing Voice
Five years ago, I quit my job to write. Thinking I knew what the task required—a computer, ideas, and time, I devoted myself to the job I’d been waiting my whole life to embrace. And embrace it, I did, tapping at that keyboard ceaselessly until my first draft was complete. Proud of my completed work, […]
SHE IS A WRITER Leslie A. Rasmussen
Leslie A. Rasmussen Have you wondered what someone would say in their eulogy at your funeral? Would they describe what kind of person you were, or what you had accomplished? Would they have enough to say about you? When you are in the middle of your life and you look back at all the things […]
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Most fiction readers fall in love with a book because of the characters. I’m no exception. As a person who reads an average of seventy-five books per year, it’s my experience that characters are the most important element in a story. Without believable characters, nothing else holds together. Think of Gollum, for instance. There aren’t […]
How Being a “Regular Mom” Inspired Me to Write a Series for Parents
It is with a heavy heart that we share author Karen Bongiornio passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 61 in early February due to a spontaneous cerebellar hematoma. Karen was so proud and excited for her upcoming book, The ABCs of Being Mom: Advice and Support from the Mom Next Door, Birth Through Kindergarten, being published on April 6th. Being […]
The Blurry Line Between Fiction and Reality
In a recent interview with my local radio station, I was asked if I write about real people. My answer was a very adamant no. This was not a fabricated response. But. It is not an entirely truthful one either. When Her Guilty Secret, my most recent book came out, my older daughter came into […]
Writing about The First World War and Time Travel
By Catherine Taylor The First World War and time travel are not topics that, on the face of it, would seem to make good bedfellows. Agents told me as much. Though they liked my writing, they wondered how on earth such a book could be marketed. Still, that was the story in my heart – […]
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