Romance Writers of America® 32nd Annual Conference Anaheim Marriott® July 25-28, 2012 Welcome back to Part 2 of our RWA12 Conference series. If you missed Part 1, click here. All of us at Writers In The Storm live here in Orange County, which makes this year's RWA conference more exciting than most for us. It also […]

by Jenny Hansen Romance Writers of America® 32nd Annual Conference Anaheim Marriott® July 25-28, 2012 All of us at Writers In The Storm live right here in Southern California, which makes this year's RWA conference a bit more exciting than most for us. For once, we're locals. This means we know where everything is, and if […]

I first learned about the 12 Stages of Physical Intimacy from Linda Howard, who used to give a very popular talk on the subject based on the work of Desmond Morris, Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacy. On the downside, Linda gave her last edition of this talk to our RWA chapter […]

Several months back, Margie Lawson did a guest blog here at Writers In The Storm called 10 Not Absurd Tips for Fiction Writing. If you missed it, you’ll definitely want to take a moment to catch up. She gave 10 AWESOME writing tips! A little background: I’ve been hearing about Margie and her classes for […]

By Jenny Hansen Based on the title of this post, you might think I’m going to talk about plotting or character arcs or 3-Act structure… That’s a big fat “Nope!” to all three. There’s a lesson that comes before all those things and it has taken me a long time to get it through my […]