by Jenny Hansen If you know everything about Twitter, detest Twitter, or plan to never use it, you can probably skip this post. For the rest of you: This is one of the most easy-to-implement social media posts I've ever done here at WITS. Enjoy! It's the beginning of a new year this week, and […]

A quick summary of The Plot Whisperer's "7 Essential Questions of Plot."

by Jenny Hansen I hope all my American pals had a great Thanksgiving and that all my Jewish pals are whooping it up during this year's early Hanukkah. This is the time of year when I begin planning for next year. I assess what worked and what bombed, in both my personal life and in writing. […]

Jenny Hansen here, popping in to share some topics we've been buzzing about behind the scenes at Writers In The Storm. First of all, this is our 500th post. That is so unbelievable to me. Four years ago, when we started this blog, we had no idea where it would go, or that we'd find nearly this […]

I don't remember where I first found reference to this writers challenge, but I was intrigued. Writing a horror story in two sentences? How could someone DO that? Well, it’s not only possible, the results are amazing! Go read these twelve, and come back. We’ll wait . . . http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-absolutely-terrifying-two-sentence-horror-stories After reading those, who could […]