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The Joy of Writing: How to Keep it During NaNoWriMo
8 Bestselling Authors Share Tips and Tricks for Finding and Keeping Joy in Your Writing by Ruth Harris The Joy of Writing? During National Novel Writing Month? You’re kidding, right?A 55K word novel...
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5 More Delusions That Can Block a Writer’s Success
We have some big changes coming to the blog! As a lot of you know, I like Blogger. It’s user-friendly and it works just fine for most author-bloggers. (Although sometimes the Blogger elves make...
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11 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR WRITERS WHO WANT TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY
by Ruth Harris With tongue firmly in cheek, Ruth Harris tells us what NOT to do in the coming year to further our writing careers. We both wish you the very best in 2016! If you’re a new commenter on...
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How to Start a Novel: A Checklist for Editing Your First Chapter
by Anne R. Allen Happy New Year! Congratulations if you won NaNoWriMo in November. And even if you didn’t. In fact, you deserve congrats if you didn’t join in the madness at all, and you’ve been...
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10 Misconceptions a College Education Taught Me about Writing
by Anne R. Allen I had what is known as a “good education.” I attended East Coast and European prep schools and Ivy League colleges. Both my parents were college professors with PhDs in literature....
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6 Steps to Hooking Your Reader: How to Write a Page Turning Novel
THE HAPPY HOOKER’S GUIDE TO THE ART AND CRAFT OF WRITING A PAGE TURNER by Ruth Harris “First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, then you do it for money.” Ralph Ellison said it. Or...
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Murder is More Fun with an Accomplice: A Guide for Co-Writing a Novel
By Melodie Campbell To the elderly man in the khaki sweater who lifted his reading glasses to stare open-mouthed… To the unknown person who gasped and knocked over a chair behind me… To the woman...
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Beware the “Writing Rules Police”
by Anne R. Allen The Harvard Business School recently did a fascinating study of toxic employees and their effect on a company’s bottom line. The researchers discovered the most difficult and costly...
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7 Ways To Rekindle The Joy Of Writing
FROM MIKE TYSON TO ALBERT EINSTEIN: Why Writers Need To Goof Off And Space Out by Ruth Harris “Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth,” observed philosopher-pugilist, Mike Tyson. Not...
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6 Reasons “Show Don’t Tell” Can be Terrible Advice for New Writers
by Anne R. Allen One of the most sacred commandments in the writerly bible is “Show-Don’t-Tell.” As Susan Defreitas wrote at LitReactor, “If writing advice were classic rock, this would be ‘Stairway...
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The Five ‘Insider’ Secrets Of Top Fiction Writers
The Five ‘Insider’ Secrets Of Top Fiction Writers by Dr. John Yeoman How do you write a ‘killer’ novel or story that brings you a contract with an agent or publisher? Or that leaps over the short-list...
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Take Your Book from Meh to Marvelous: Why Every Writer Needs (at Least) One VIP
by Ruth Harris Male or female, good guys or bad girls, famous or infamous, VIPs are the Very Important Persons who go their own way, do their own thing, make their own rules and don’t give a damn...
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We are All Prisoners of Our Unexamined Beliefs: Is a False Belief Holding...
by Anne R. Allen “Think outside the box” has become a mindless cliché these days. So many people repeat it that the meaning has mostly been lost. In fact, most people are unaware they are in boxes,...
View ArticleDon’t Derail Your Writing Career Before it Starts: 8 Ways New Writers...
By Anne R. Allen We all make mistakes. It’s how we learn. But some mistakes have the potential to end a writing career before it starts. Today I’m talking about the things a lot of writers do that...
View ArticleThe Dirty Dozen: 12 Ways Not to Write a Mystery Novel
by Jacqueline Diamond Today we have an amazing guest. Jacqueline Diamond is the author of 101 novels! Yup. You read that right. Jackie writes in many genres, and she’s recently returned to writing...
View ArticleEditing and Editors: A Writer’s Guide
9 Ways Editors Can Make You Look Good…and 7 Ways They Can Make You Miserable by Ruth Harris As a former editor, I’m biased but, as a writer, I’ve learned that for me (and for just about every writer...
View ArticleFirst Chapter Blues: Tips and Fixes
The First Chapter is the toughest! by Ruth Harris Someone waves a gun in the first sentence. In the second sentence, Jim (or is it Jill?) is walking his (or is it her?) dog in the rain. In the third...
View Article6 Tips For Getting More Traffic on your Author Blog
Is your author blog getting crickets? by Anne R. Allen You finally did it. You started your author blog. You put up your first post. And the second and third and fourth… And…you’ve got crickets....
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