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Have You Lost Touch With Your Avid Inner Reader?

Jenny Hansen — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:02:46 +0000

From our earliest moments, most writers are avid readers. We devour books — for story, for craft, for new worlds and new ideas. I don’t know if we become students of the written word because we love to read or if we read because we were born to love the written word. All that […]

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Start Me Up

Guest Blogger — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 11:00:48 +0000

James Preston When I was growing up in El Segundo, I spent a lot of time in the library. If you are a Post-Internet Writer, you will struggle to understand what I say next: sometimes I ran out of things to read. No stack of books waiting to be read. No iBooks with a million free samples […]

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Slow: Meandering Reader Ahead

Julie Glover — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:00:32 +0000

Last week, Fae Rowen discussed her reading habits in Beware: Voracious Reading Ahead. Like her, I remember reading way more than my friends and classmates when I was young, devouring every book that came my way. I started with the marvelous for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Nancy Drew. Then a very strange novel in 5th grade […]

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Your Writing Matters: How a Book Saved My Life

Laura Drake — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 11:00:32 +0000

Autumn always makes me thankful. Maybe it's because of Thanksgiving. Maybe it's because of a memory of a remote cabin in the middle exploding fall colors. Maybe it's the reminder that I have more to be thankful for than most. I'm thankful for books. Because one saved my life. When people ask me why I began writing, […]

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10 Things I Know About You and Your Books

Jenny Hansen — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 11:02:02 +0000

From our earliest moments, most writers are avid readers. We devour books – for story, for Craft, for new worlds and new ideas. We have To Be Read piles (TBR for short) that are taller than small children. Our favorite authors and characters become our friends. I don’t know if we become students of the […]

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Designing a Book Cover That Tells

Guest Blogger — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:01:43 +0000

Christopher Lentz If you’re reading this, you’re probably a storyteller. That’s part “story” and part “teller.” So what do your book covers tell potential readers? First confession: I may be new to the self-publishing world, but I’m not a newcomer to the universe of design and marketing. Since the launch of my novel, Blossom, I […]

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Summer is Coming -- Let's Pimp and Promote!

Guest Blogger — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:01:11 +0000

Summer is coming up fast and here at Writers in the Storm we're marking the occasion with a little "Pimp and Promote." Of course, this always costs us some money, because we have to go out and buy lots of books. But there will be awesome "beach read" sales in next few weeks, so let's go for […]

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Reading as a Writer -- Is It Different?

Guest Blogger — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:02:00 +0000

James Preston When I was growing up I read a lot. I had a pattern, a way that I approached books that just evolved sort of on its own. I'd read for a while, get to a really good part and then go off and do something else, something mindless. Often I'd dig a hole. […]

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The Best Exercise for Writers Is. . .Reading

Orly Konig-Lopez — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:00:36 +0000

Show of hands … How many WITS readers exercise every day? How many of you read every day? Sir Richard Steele said, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” I think about exercising every day. But I can almost always find a promising excuse not to exercise—I need the time to […]

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10 Ways I'd Love My Books To Be Like Flat Stanley

Jenny Hansen — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:00:35 +0000

If you're a North American parent with a child in 3rd grade or beyond, it's a pretty sure bet you've heard of Flat Stanley. Just in case you haven't, here's a quick summary: The Flat Stanley Project In 1994, Dale Hubert began the Flat Stanley Project in Ontario, Canada. Hubert had the brilliant idea of […]

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