I know!! I was so excited when I saw this list. (And you ALWAYS write great posts. 🙂 )

Me too, Denise. Those writing craft posts make me soooo happy.

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I was pretty excited to see you there, Kris. But I am WAY MORE excited that you had an amazing insanely awesome Writing Sunday!! Congratulations!!!!!! I am at 48K-ish and feeling the end in sight tooooooo.

I like craft posts too, and how-to's about stuff I don't know. And I love getting a window into "spy stuff" from Piper. I don't always make the list either, Bob, but I hope we BOTH make it next year. 🙂

Awwwwww! Susan Squires' post is really old, and really good. She wrote another one with her writer husband Harry Squires called "Talking Back to Your Brain" that was SO USEFUL for me. It taught me how to ask my writing subconscious questions so it could answer.

Example, I have a scene that's been giving me trouble where my heroine and antagonist have to have a really important verbal sparring match - it marks the turning point in the book, and it had to be entertaining AND move the plot forward.

All my options were blah. But I asked - what is important enough for them to fight about? I also asked - what is less important, but entertaining? I took a two-hour nap and woke up with the answer. That scene is rollicking now.

You will be happy to know we can give you part of your wish list RIGHT NOW. Here's John Peregine's post on Kindle Vella, and there's a great comment below it outlining the "rules." 🙂

https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/05/serialization-storytelling-part-2-vella/

Thank you Jenny, for putting this together for today. In my nano fever yesterday, I completed over 8k words! This may be the year I make it over the 50k finish line.

I personally enjoy the essays that encourage. But I always learn a ton from craft and publishing posts. I appreciate all the knowledge here and it still amazes me how writers are giving back to the writing community.

-Kris