Marilyn Brant Thanks so much for inviting to me to Writers in the Storm today and for asking me to share a little bit about the group blog anthology I worked on this spring! A few months ago, I organized a writing/promotional project for one of my blogs, the Girlfriends Book Club, which is an […]

Scott Wilbanks You know you must be desperate when you find yourself Googling random word combinations in the hope that a book title will magically make itself known to you. To be honest, after a week  and an endless series of, “that’s good, but no thanks”, responses from my publishing house, I was grasping at […]

Marcy Kennedy   If I took a survey asking writers what the most important elements of fiction were, I’d probably end up with a few consistent answers—plot, characters, dialogue, showing rather than telling. We might not automatically think of including internal dialogue on the list, but we should. Internal dialogue is the heartbeat of fiction. […]

Sierra Godfrey Flashbacks can explain a lot about your character. Adding them into your story often gives the reader a glimpse of the texture that explains why your character does what she does—and goodness knows, we spend a lot of time thinking about how our characters got to where they are when we start telling […]

Lori Nelson Spielman At one time or another, most of us writers have second-guessed the choices we made about our book. Was the cover a misfit? Should we have gone with the original title? Would it have done better with a summer launch? If only we were allowed a do-over, a chance to republish the […]