Donald Maass | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:10:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg Donald Maass | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 What’s the Worst that Can Happen? Your Character’s Biggest Fear https://writersinthestormblog.com/2012/06/whats-the-worst-that-can-happen-your-characters-biggest-fear/ Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:04:58 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=5599 By Laura Drake   I read a lot about craft. Books, blogs, articles, websites. I’m always looking to improve my craft. I know you are too, or you wouldn’t be reading this. WITS is all about craft. One of my weaknesses is Plotting. I know these amazing characters – like Athena, they are born, fully […]

The post What’s the Worst that Can Happen? Your Character’s Biggest Fear first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> Inspiration vs Perspiration in Writing https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/11/inspiration-vs-perspiration-in-writing/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:00:10 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=3051 by Fae Rowen This one isn't so much a throwdown  as a mirror reflecting what keeps us writing.  Usually Laura Drake draws the line in the sand first, but today I'm going to talk about inspiration and writing.  On Wednesday, since she's the queen of "bottom in the chair," Laura's going to follow-up with perspiration […]

The post Inspiration vs Perspiration in Writing first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> Blogging Guest: Donald Maass -- It’s Not About The Cougar https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/11/its-not-about-the-cougar/ Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:00:37 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=2822 We're huge Donald Maass fans here at WITS. We've got all his books. Mine are dog-eared. He has a way of breaking down critical craft points and making them easy to understand. He's graciously allowed us to repost a blog that originally appeared on a blog we're also fans of, Writer Unboxed. Note: If you […]

The post Blogging Guest: Donald Maass -- It’s Not About The Cougar first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> Make Your Writer's Bookshelf Work For You https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/06/make-your-writers-bookshelf-work-for-you/ Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:00:11 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=1504 by Jenny Hansen What do you do when you need help with your writing? I don’t mean when you can’t find the right word or phrase…my critique partner, Sharla Rae, did an excellent job of solving that issue in her "Writing Antifreeze" post a few weeks back. No, what I’m talking about is the books […]

The post Make Your Writer's Bookshelf Work For You first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> Mash-up of Magnificence #3 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/05/mashup-of-magnificence-3/ Thu, 05 May 2011 13:00:46 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=1166 by Jenny Hansen All of us at Writers In The Storm had so much FUN in April…did you? We had amazing guest posts (thanks Tara Taylor Quinn and Pamela Kaye Tracy!), the sweeping Safari Journal from Fae Rowen and some amazing blogs on Writing Craft. How could we possibly top April’s Awesomeness, you might be […]

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