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5 Ways to Manage Reader Expectations

Guest Blogger — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:17:00 +0000

Want to extend an invitation to readers to stay immersed in your story? Us too! Here are 5 techniques from veteran author and editor Kathryn Craft to help.

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Where an Author's Story Begins

Guest Blogger — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:02:57 +0000

Turning Whine Into Gold by Kathryn Craft It was 2001 and as a dance critic, I’d been getting paid for my published writing for eighteen years. I had this writing thing in the bag! I just needed an agent to get my recently drafted novel out into the world. (Experienced authors: I hear you. Quit […]

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Leaving a Writer’s Group: 5 Reasons it May be Time

Guest Blogger — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:00:04 +0000

by Kathryn Craft I’ve written here before about the importance of community in carrying our writing careers forward and I stand by that advice. You’ve only gotten where you are because of the hands you’ve held. But no one community may be able to carry the upwardly mobile among you all the way to your goal. […]

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The Story that Holds You Back

Guest Blogger — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:02:26 +0000

What happens when writer idealism fades and cynicism takes hold? Kathryn Craft turns whine into gold as she shows writers a way forward.

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Our Capacity for Brilliance

Guest Blogger — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:02:19 +0000

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine Into Gold In high school, I was the type of high achiever that had my teachers taking me under their wings. Turns out, that wasn’t always such a good thing. My fifth-year Russian teacher, thinking I’d follow in his footsteps, challenged me to write a research paper on a Russian ballerina—in […]

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The Developmental Edit: Are you (emotionally) ready?

Guest Blogger — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:00:37 +0000

Kathryn Craft A developmental edit can feel a lot like sending your child to school for the first time. You’ve had several years to exert your influence on his upbringing and must now allow others into his journey. You may be ready to push the little bugger through the school door! Or you may […]

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Becoming a “Real” Writer

Guest Blogger — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:00:28 +0000

Kathryn Craft I love to go hear other authors speak. What a kick that Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout sounds like my favorite quirky aunt, or that bestselling author Margot Livesey’s lush prose begins with characters who, like mine, nod and shrug their way through her first drafts. I’ve walked away from dozens of such […]

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Ask for What You Need

Guest Blogger — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 12:00:14 +0000

Kathryn Craft Happy Holidays to all of today’s Writers in the Storm readers! Did Santa bring you everything on your list? What’s that? You didn’t make a list? When did we adults stop asking for what we need? Personally, I think independence is overrated as a hallmark of maturity. We writers can be especially stubborn […]

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Transformational Gratitude

Guest Blogger — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:02:08 +0000

Kathryn Craft As you sat at the table counting and sharing your blessings last week, I’ll venture there was an entire subset of “blessings” that you skirted past. Because, frankly, to say them aloud would ruin everyone’s appetite. Now that your feast is digested, I’m going to suggest you seek the truth in the following […]

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5 Ways Writers Can Survive A Quake

Guest Blogger — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:39:45 +0000

Kathryn Craft The city of Tokyo is in a precarious spot, balanced at the juncture of four tectonic plates. Even as Tokyo’s inhabitants conduct daily life and continue to build upward, somewhere in the back of their minds they are anticipating a sudden shift in any one of these plates that will remove the ground […]

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