Tiffany Lawson Inman (aka Naked Editor) Hello writers!  I’m glad to be here once again tossing around writing craft knowledge on the pages of Writers In The Storm. If you have read my guest posts on WITS before, you know I love talking about Crossing Emotional Barriers and Crossing Physical Barriers in Fiction.  I think […]

Margie Lawson Cheers for Laura and Fae and Jenn and Orly. WITS Rules! Want to be more productive every day? Keep reading. Want to take charge of your minutes and hours? Keep reading. Want to act and feel like a winner and super star? Keep reading. This blog is a new take on To Do […]

Margie Lawson I’ve talked to dozens of agents and editors about what makes them stop reading submissions. We’ve chatted on planes and on yachts, in several countries, on several continents. We’ve chatted at luncheons and dinners and late nights in bars. Some agents and editors shared general ideas regarding why they quit reading. They said […]

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by Margie Lawson, @MargieLawson If you watch NCIS, you know Jethro Gibbs, aka Mark Harmon, has rules. Fifty-plus rules. My next fifteen (or fifty) blogs will feature a different Margie-Rule for writers. [Click here for Margie's Rule #1: Never Take Any Word for Granted.] Margie’s Rule #2: Write the Hard Stuff: Facial Expressions Write the […]