Laura I looked it up. This blog was born in April of 2010, when our critique group sat in Charla Rae’s office and came up with the crazy idea of a blog to help writers improve their craft and not feel so alone, working in solitude. We’ve posted three times a week since then and […]

Lori Freeland addresses both the good and the bad of writing critique groups and gives fabulous tips on how to have an effective group.

Jenny Hansen A few years back, I wrote a post called How To Focus on Your Story's DNA that identified the elements of story that never change. I use those unchanging elements to help keep my story on track. Theme is one of those important elements, and it's a tough one because most of the […]

It's the WITS greatest hits, with the top 11 posts of all time written by our hosts. Enjoy!

Fae Rowen I promise this is the last in what was never intended to become a series. But it seems every time I think of "F" words, more come to mind... My blog with the first six words can be found here. Like the first six words, these F-words are perfectly "clean" for mixed company […]