Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
I receive a lot of email from aspiring writers, and one thing that frustrates me is an alarming lack of attention to punctuation. It’s important! But many these days seem to be too lazy or just don’t …
// by Rachelle Gardner// 29 Comments
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
I receive a lot of email from aspiring writers, and one thing that frustrates me is an alarming lack of attention to punctuation. It’s important! But many these days seem to be too lazy or just don’t …
// by Rachel Kent// 67 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
While I was at the Mount Hermon conference, I briefly met with an author to listen to a pitch. Based on the short introduction to the manuscript, I had a few words of advice on how the …
// by Wendy Lawton// 73 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Last week we examined the question, “What Inspires You?” I loved your answers on the subject of inspiration last week– God, faith, nature, story, places, poetry, long drives. . .
This week we are going …
// by Mary Keeley// 35 Comments
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Our brain sensors are always taking in information. Experts say that every brain is wired differently. Imagine that. I don’t even know how to wire an electrical outlet. How well we process the information filtering through our …
// by Rachelle Gardner// 33 Comments
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
Are you in a critique group or do you have a critique partner?
Do you regularly share your writing with a friend/writer/editor who gives you suggestions for changes and corrections?
Are you frequently sharing pages of your …
// by Wendy Lawton// 80 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I spent last week in the giant redwoods of California with about 300 other writers, editors and agents. An inspired location. As I saw the creativity that grew out of that week it made me wonder, what …
// by Janet Grant// 76 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Titles are the blessing and bane of writers’ lives. If that just-right title simply won’t come to you when you beckon it, the standard thought is, The publisher’s going to change it anyway; so it doesn’t …
// by Rachelle Gardner// 34 Comments
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
I often have discussions with authors about craft, or writing technique, vs. having a great story. Obviously, the formula for a good book includes both.
Craft refers to all the mechanics of fiction: plot, characterization, …
// by Michelle Ule// 14 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Filling in for Rachel, Janet and Wendy over the next three days as they attend, and I write about, the Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference.
Writing can be a lonely …
// by Michelle Ule// 30 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Filling in for Rachel, Janet and Wendy over the next three days as they attend, and I write about, the Mount Hermon Christian Writers’ Conference.