Some people talk about writing like they are chasing butterflies along the pretty garden paths of their manuscripts. Like their words frolic with Disney characters. They speak of churning out pages like a high-end laser printer. I am not one of those people. A few times a year I have one of those idyllic days […]

  NaNoWriMo, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, is National Novel Writing Month, where hundreds of thousands of writers gather to bang out as many words as they can in the month of November. Many writers skip it and many writers treat it as a yearly pilgrimage to Writing Mecca. NaNoWriMo is my […]

I'm taking a break from first page critiques this month, because something is bugging me and I have to get it out. Continue to send your pages, though, I'll be back next month with a crit!   I traveled to speak at a writer's group last weekend (I do that, you know. Contact me if […]

Tiffany Yates Martin   I had a blog post all queued up for this week, but I’m on a plane back from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ annual Colorado Gold conference and can’t stop thinking about the weekend and what it made me realize about this business—and the authors who are the soul of it. […]

  I was looking up some stuff on the back end of Writers In the Storm the other day and it kind of blew my mind. As I scoped out traffic and posts and fixed old links, the walk down Memory Lane made me nostalgic. Here's what I learned about WITS. We've been around since […]