By Robin D. Owens Endings are extremely important. You want the reader to be satisfied, more, to remember that you gave them a good finish and look forward to your next book. Here are some problems I, as a reader and writer, find in endings: I had a favorite author (male writing under a female…
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Nobody Writes Like You
By Mark Stevens Can you write like your favorite writer? I know I can’t. You might have Ursula Le Guin or Patricia Highsmith or Ernest Hemingway in mind when you write something, but somehow it comes out on the page as, well, you. Somewhere in all those choices of words, sentences, characters, images, plots, moods,…
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By Robin D. Owens “My brain has decided that writing isn’t a temporary job anymore,” said Laila, a writer I’ve been sprinting alongside in the mornings lately. “I’m rearranging my office this morning during our writing sprints. When I started working my day job from home and writing too, I assumed it was temporary. I…
How To Handle a Bad Critique – Aaron Michael Ritchey Style
BY Aaron Michael Ritchey So I’ve been in critique groups for nine years now. That’s a whole lot of words being read by other people. You want the math? Oh yes, I know you do. So ten pages a week, times fifty-two ‘cause there are fifty-two weeks in a year, so that’s 520 pages a…
Guest Post – Terri Benson: What’s a Writer to Do?
By Terri Benson Today’s writers have so many things to think about besides the act of writing. Oh, for the days when you typed up or printed out your book manuscript, boxed it up, sent it to your publisher, then started your next book, certain that the publisher had enough invested in you that they…