by Tiffany Yates Martin Author Liz Fenton—half of the writing team, with Lisa Steinke, behind bestselling novels like The Good Widow—recently told me about her fitness regimen at Orange Theory. “I hate working out!” she said. She dreads it every time she goes, and doesn’t enjoy it while she’s there. “But I love the way my shoulders […]

by Lori Freeland If you write your characters like real people, they’ll read like real people.  But, in order to bring them to life, we first have to figure out who they are. Some writers want to understand their characters before they type a single sentence. Others like to learn about them on the way. […]

Writers have those times of wondering, “Am I any good?” Today, James Preston helps us find the courage to keep going.

Firearms often show up in fiction, and Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes clear up the errors authors tend to make in describing them.

by Colleen M. Story  When the money doesn’t come flowing in or when the market ignores your book, it’s easy to lose the joy in writing. Fortunately, you can get it back. What Rewards are Writers Seeking? In almost everything we do, there are two types of rewards involved: Extrinsic rewards are those we get from […]