by Katriena Knights If you’ve seriously pursued writing for any amount of time, you know you can’t be trusted to judge your own work. Scenes that seem wonderfully constructed in our heads are completely incomprehensible to other people. Glorious flights of poetic prose are actually pools of verbal quicksand from which no reader will ever…
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WORLD-BUILDING WARREN’S WAY
By Warren Hammond Why do you read fiction? You might say compelling characters. Or high-stakes drama. Maybe you love the plot twists you didn’t see coming. Those are all valid responses, but when taken alone, isn’t each of them inadequate? Don’t you read fiction for all those reasons, plus probably dozens of others that I…
The Good, the Bad, and the Very, Very Ugly: All Manuscripts Are Not Created Equal
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer Listen closely, for I am about to tell you a publishing secret no one else wants you to know. Are you ready? Here goes. Not everything a writer writes is good. Shocking, right? J.K. Rowlings didn’t sit down one day and pound out a thousand pages of Harry Potter the first…
Gadgets and Spreadsheets and Apps, Oh, My!
By Katriena Knights Like most of us writers, I’m always looking for a way to increase efficiency and up my wordcount. All this while trying not to aggravate my carpal tunnels and managing to spend a couple minutes here and there with the kids. My latest quest for the perfect productivity combo has led me…
What, Precisely, Are Your Intentions?
By Kerry Schafer Setting Yourself Up For Failure I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. More often than not, I think they set us up for failure rather than success. Some of us start out great with whatever it is we’ve decided to do: write 2000 words a day, go to the gym…