by Jenny Hansen "There isn’t any secret. You sit down and you start and that’s it." ~ Elmore Leonard Last month, I took a course with Margie Lawson called Defeating Self-Defeating Behaviors, which I would recommend to anyone. Margie might have geared the course toward writers, but I've already talked a painting/designer friend and my […]

by Fae Rowen “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself; nameless unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts."  FDR’s First Inaugural Address Laura is the queen of quotes--and of not always gentle encouragement, so I'm thanking her at the get-go for making me process my thoughts on a subject that has been […]

By Laura Drake We were talking at crit group the other night. Our “throwdown” blogs have grown into more than we’d planned originally.  In case you missed them, they were: Plot vs. Character – Linear Writing vs. Non-linear – Originally, we thought to interject some humor, give some helpful links, and make everyone on either […]