By A Beer for the Shower Hi folks. We’re Brandon and Bryan. We co-write a lot of things together. Sometimes it’s web-comics. Sometimes it’s novels. And sometimes it’s a product dissatisfaction email for that Pineapple Slicer-N-Dicer 3000 that only succeeded in coring a left arm down to the elbow nub. But whatever the writing project…
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Guest Post by Chris Pitchford: Dream jobs. Sometimes it’s not enough to have just one
By Chris Pitchford Benny had two of my all-time favorite jobs. He was a writer and he commanded a space station. Actually, he was a character played by Avery Brooks in one of my favorite television shows. In one memorable episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Benny’s original writing was attacked by hostile indifference….
How to Grow a Novel
By Barbara Graham Probably because I’m in the midst of trying to get my garden to produce something other than really healthy weeds, and my next book is in the formative stage, the comparison between gardening and writing a novel seemed ideal. After all, they both start with high hopes and big plans. Each beginning…
Guest Post by Rebecca Taylor: “Am I Good Enough?”
By Rebecca Taylor I think there may be a singular question that, at some time or another, burns in the soul of every writer. “Am I good enough?” As we barrel towards the 2014 RMFW conference this weekend, I know it’s a question that many writers are hoping to have answered for them. Whether they…
Series or Standalone or The Problems of Estimating When You Don’t Outline
By Carol Berg In my published writing career, I’ve started six projects. Three of them, I intended to be standalone novels. Only one of those three stayed that way. One project I sold as a three book series and it turned out to be four. Clearly I’m not great at estimating. My problem is that…