Category: How To and Tips
Unforgettable Endings: Finishing Your Novel
What part of writing your novel challenges you most? For some it is deciding where to begin or how to establish the characters and setting. And who hasn’t struggled with getting rig of slog in the center? But a challenge all writers have in common is bringing it all to a conclusion. After spending countless […]
Inspiration Behind Heir To Malla
I was the girl who had her nose in a book throughout childhood. It all started with my grandmother’s stories. I spent a few weeks every summer at my grandparents, and she would regale me with stories during mealtimes. She was a remarkable storyteller and would weave a beautiful tapestry of mythological tales and mighty […]
Art And Science: Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Annette Libeskind Berkovits It was the poetic randomness of the cosmos that threw me into a terrifying whirl on November 12, 2014. My perfectly healthy adult son suffered a devastating hemorrhagic stroke. I had to do everything in my power to keep myself from falling apart. Sitting for hours in waiting rooms and hospital corridors […]
Making It to the Finish Line
Making It to the Finish Line Laura Moe Shortly after my first novel was released, I served on a panel at a writing conference and was asked, “What is the key to your success?” “I finished it,” I replied. I’ve never suffered from writer’s block. Every day I’ll write 250-1000 words as naturally as I […]
Finding Writing Inspiration When You’re Stuck at Home
By Krysten Lindsay Hager Writers are always looking for things to be inspired by whether it’s a beautiful piece of artwork, music, or even overhearing a conversation that triggers a story idea. Okay, so that last one is basically eavesdropping, but I’ve gotten some of my best bits of dialogue by strangers talking loudly near […]
Finding A Small Press for My Debut Novel
Finding A Small Press for My Debut Novel After my debut novel was passed on by mainstream publishers and it became clear my agent could do no more for me, we amicably parted ways. But I wasn’t about to put this baby, which represented years of my writing life, into my desk drawer. I was […]
My Travel Writing Dream
My Travel Writing Dream By Susie Kearley In 2011, my 15 year career in marketing came to an unexpected end. After a few false starts, I decided to launch a new career as a freelance writer. I pitched a wide range of ideas to magazine editors, and eventually found work in niche subjects, writing about […]
To Raise a Novel By Barbara Josselsohn
“Congratulations!” a writer friend of mine exclaims when I tell her my third novel will debut this week. “You must be so excited. Another book baby!” I smile and thank her, nodding at this familiar comparison of books to newborns. Many, many writers I know liken the process of launching a novel to giving birth, […]
Three Tips On Writing Your Story by Annette Valentine
1. Enlighten The Path Ahead of You Seat yourself in darkness and you’ll not be able to do much of anything, let alone begin writing your story. To enlighten the path toward writing your story (personal or otherwise), ask yourself what flows naturally when you sit down to write. Beginning your story in your own […]
Writing Challenges: Part II of III: Time Out of (Your) Mind
Writing Challenges: Part II of III (read part one HERE) Management of time within the long-form narrative is always tricky, and it has continually proved a challenging task for me — and never more so than with my novel Once Again. The story was inspired by a dream I had in which my husband and […]
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