https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 05:05:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/08/golden-tips-from-rwa-2019/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/08/golden-tips-from-rwa-2019/#comments Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:00:53 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37917 by Fae Rowen Years ago, when I attended the UCI Summer Writing Institute, I learned about golden lines. These are the lines you go back and highlight after taking notes in a class or workshop or in a great book. These are the takeaway ideas, the ones you want to remember and implement in your […]

The post Golden Tips from RWA 2019 first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/08/golden-tips-from-rwa-2019/feed/ 23 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/04/first-pages-and-character-emotion/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/04/first-pages-and-character-emotion/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:00:02 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36888 by Becca Puglisi As I’m sure you’ve heard roughly a gajillion times, your story’s first pages are very important. Editors and agents typically request just a portion of your story’s opening, and potential buyers read only a sampling when they’re looking for books to buy. So whichever publishing route you take, those first pages are […]

The post First Pages and Character Emotion first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/04/first-pages-and-character-emotion/feed/ 13