Or... Turning Whine into Gold by Kathryn Craft I’d like to thank the team here at Writers in the Storm for letting me blow in with a series on attitude adjustment. If you think this has nothing to do with becoming an author, you couldn’t be more wrong! From our first words tentatively pressed to the […]

By Piper Bayard Everything I know about writing I learned from belly dancing. Yes, belly dancing. How can this be? Art is Creativity, channeled into a three-dimensional form. It is the same basic process regardless of the medium, so the act of becoming proficient in any art is the same: discipline, practice, and dancing. Dancing? […]

by Orly Konig-Lopez After that headline a few of you are probably worried that my marble bag has a hole in it. You might not be wrong. But that's not the point of this post. Rejections. No one wants to get them, no one likes getting them. They sting. They make you triple guess your […]

by Darynda Jones Have you ever sat and listened to a panel of editors and agents go over their wish lists, the manuscripts they’d most like to see at that moment? And have you ever thought to yourself, “Hmmm, a space opera about a zombie captain who is commissioned to take an elemental princess across […]

by Pamela Morsi As a writer without a plan, I don’t get invited to comment often on my writing process. Telling people, “oh, I just make it up as I go along” tends to annoy my colleagues and confuse newcomers. I’m an organic writer. Or at least that what Donald Maass calls it. Pardon the […]