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What to Do While You Wait: Working with Your Book, Instead of On It

Guest Blogger — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:02:27 +0000

Barbara Probst shows how to creatively prepare for revisions while taking a break from your manuscript or waiting for feedback.

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How Writers can Breakthrough Being Stuck

Guest Blogger — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:02:39 +0000

Tasha Seegmiller Whether you are a participant in NaNoWriMo or not, all of us have (most likely) experienced what it is like to hit the middle of the story and . . . And. Some call it a brick wall, others talk about being stuck in the muck, and still others may not have […]

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Thoughts on "Originality" in Fiction

Guest Blogger — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:01:11 +0000

Turning Whine Into Goldby Kathryn Craft Earlier this year I ran across a social media post by Lauren Vaknine that evokes a concern so common among writers I thought we might discuss it here (used with permission): “I watched the film Goodbye Christopher Robin last night, and seeing the adoration [A.A. Milne] got from […]

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How Squirrel-Brain Helped My Writing

Guest Blogger — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 11:00:31 +0000

by Orly Konig Are you guys done laughing at the title? Not yet? Now? Since the early months of 2018, I’ve been dealing with overcrowding in the brain-squirrel department. Revisions on what became Carousel Beach, marketing and launch of Carousel Beach, writing proposal chapters, family issues, starting a new book, summer schedule and multiple trips, […]

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Golden Lines from RWA 2018

Fae Rowen — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:00:55 +0000

I first learned about Golden Lines the summer I attended the UCI Summer Writing Institute. After a particularly dense morning lecture, we were told to extract the golden lines, the ideas that we could use to improve our writing. Every year after the RWA Conference, I like to share the Golden Lines I've highlighted from […]

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Writing Through Life Catastrophe

Guest Blogger — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:02:13 +0000

Susan Donovan Pages per day. Word count. Butt in chair. Drop-dead due dates. These are our mantras, the rhythm of the writing life. Whether we work for ourselves or New York publishing houses, we authors are ninjas when it comes to merciless goal setting and self-flagellation. But what do we do if our lives […]

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A Writer’s Lessons in Failure

Guest Blogger — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 11:00:57 +0000

Heather Webb Failure. Hmmmm. Well, I recently entered two contests and wasn’t selected. I’ve had agents who didn’t want me, editors who didn’t want my book(s), and enough negative reviews to be christened an author. I’ve also had the illustrious pleasure of receiving a small handful of emails from Wikipedia Historians telling me why I’m […]

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Why Writers Should Head Into the Woods

Guest Blogger — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:00:03 +0000

Cathy Lamb When I was about eight, my parents took my sisters, my brother, and me on a six week camping trip in a tent. Yes, I said six weeks. No, my parents had not lost their ever lovin’ minds. My father had a sabbatical, they were sick of the city, and they wanted out. […]

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When You Think Your Writing Sucks

Julie Glover — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:01:09 +0000

This is an actual file on my computer: I confess that I’ve accessed it more than once. Truth is, anyone who’s been writing for a while knows there will be moments when you wonder if you’re really cut out to be a writer. This feeling strikes writers who struggle to finish their first novel; writers […]

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Staying Positive in a Negative (Writer’s) World

Guest Blogger — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:02:13 +0000

Sue Ward Drake I recently spoke on a panel at Romance Writers of America national conference on writing disabled characters. I was asked to present because I had previously worked with the conference for permission to have a transcriber at workshops because I’m deaf. At my recent presentation, an audience member asked if I thought […]

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