Be sure to visit Writers In The Storm next week! Not only will we be publishing our 100th post, we'll also be kicking off our Going To The Chapel Contest, just in time for "wedding season." Speaking of contests...here's a winning blog from Charlotte Carter. Throughout the year, I judge quite a few entries in […]

What separates the Amateurs from the Professionals? The ability to both Edit and Proofread. In novel writing, editing is King and proofreading is Queen.

By Sharla Rae Too much flab on a person can cause a fatal heart attack. It's fatal to an author’s writing too. Flabby writing is usually the result of wordiness or over writing. Both are weak and tiresome and make editors go cross-eyed. Worse, at the first sign of it, an editor stamps it as a reject. […]

by Sharla Rae Hey, who’s telling this story? I can make my characters do or say anything I want them to. Many beginning writers subscribe to this theory. I hate to break anyone’s bubble but that’s hogwash. When introducing characters, the author breathes life into them with a physical description, personality, goals and motivations. They look, […]

  By Laura Drake Have you ever heard this Indian Parable?  Six blind men try to determine what an elephant looks like by feeling different parts of its body. The one at the tail says an elephant is like a rope; the one at a leg says it’s like a pipe, the one at the […]