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Have You Lost Touch With Your Avid Inner Reader?

Jenny Hansen — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:02:46 +0000

From our earliest moments, most writers are avid readers. We devour books — for story, for craft, for new worlds and new ideas. I don’t know if we become students of the written word because we love to read or if we read because we were born to love the written word. All that […]

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Slow: Meandering Reader Ahead

Julie Glover — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:00:32 +0000

Last week, Fae Rowen discussed her reading habits in Beware: Voracious Reading Ahead. Like her, I remember reading way more than my friends and classmates when I was young, devouring every book that came my way. I started with the marvelous for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Nancy Drew. Then a very strange novel in 5th grade […]

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Your Writing Matters: How a Book Saved My Life

Laura Drake — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 11:00:32 +0000

Autumn always makes me thankful. Maybe it's because of Thanksgiving. Maybe it's because of a memory of a remote cabin in the middle exploding fall colors. Maybe it's the reminder that I have more to be thankful for than most. I'm thankful for books. Because one saved my life. When people ask me why I began writing, […]

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10 Things I Know About You and Your Books

Jenny Hansen — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 11:02:02 +0000

From our earliest moments, most writers are avid readers. We devour books – for story, for Craft, for new worlds and new ideas. We have To Be Read piles (TBR for short) that are taller than small children. Our favorite authors and characters become our friends. I don’t know if we become students of the […]

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10 Ways I'd Love My Books To Be Like Flat Stanley

Jenny Hansen — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:00:35 +0000

If you're a North American parent with a child in 3rd grade or beyond, it's a pretty sure bet you've heard of Flat Stanley. Just in case you haven't, here's a quick summary: The Flat Stanley Project In 1994, Dale Hubert began the Flat Stanley Project in Ontario, Canada. Hubert had the brilliant idea of […]

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Your Author Business Plan: Compare, Contrast And Conquer

Guest Blogger — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:00:04 +0000

Writers In The Storm welcomes back literary lawyer, Susan Spann with her next installment of her blog series on the author's business plan. By Susan Spann Thank you for joining me again on our trek through writing an author business plan! Last month’s installment looked at The Three Stages of Author Marketing. Now, as 2012 […]

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10 Things I Know About How Writers Read

Jenny Hansen — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:00:07 +0000

By Jenny Hansen From our earliest moments, most writers are avid readers. We devour books – for story, for Craft, for new worlds and new ideas. We have To Be Read piles (TBR for short) that are taller than small children. Our favorite authors and characters become our friends. I don’t know if we become […]

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Plot Fixer - Part 2: How To Fix A Weak Opening

writersinthestorm — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:00:11 +0000

Writers In The Storm welcomes back Kara Lennox, a.k.a. Karen Leabo for some more plot-fixing magic. Kara is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than sixty novels of romance and romantic suspense for Harlequin and Random House. OMG, excuse the interruption, but I just realized we hadn't posted Kara's BIG news! She is NOT just a […]

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Publishing Naked- Part 3

Guest Blogger — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:00:43 +0000

Welcome to another installment of Sensational Summer Fridays, here at WITS! Before we begin with the third in our guest blog series by Denise Domning, we'd like to announce the winner of Michelle Diener's debut novel, IN A TREACHEROUS COURT. Congratulations to Stacy Green, who read and commented on Michelle's blog Using Real People and […]

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