By Sharla Rae Like most of you, I don’t have a lot of time to cruise the web and read blogs. If the blog site is pretty, that’s nice, but I don’t really care. I’m interested in content. I pick subjects that pique my interest and choose many that are recommended by writing friends. I love […]

by Laura Drake We’ve been talking about critique groups here at Writers in the Storm lately. Jenny started us out with 10 Power Tips for Critique Groups, and Sharla followed up with her post on how to form a Critique Group. At crit group this week, we were talking about change; how it seems that […]

By Sharla Rae I’m very proud of my critique dream team here at Writers In The Storm. We started out liking each other, but we’re now sisters both in the family sense and as professional writers.  Unfortunately, not all critique groups are created equal. We’ve all heard critique group horror stories: unprofessional back-biting, petty jealousies […]

We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog for an announcement: Amy Hahn was the lucky commenter who won a copy of Judy Duarte's new novel, Christmas on Nutcracker Court!  Congrats Amy! Here's our own Jenny Hansen, starting a new series on critique groups. In my everyday life I’m a training coordinator for an accounting firm, focused […]

We had to break into your weekend with some amazing news. . .Laura Drake has placed second in the Orange Rose Contest! We should have a less blurry picture of her to sub in soon, but my hands were shaking so bad, I'm lucky I didn't drop my phone taking the photo. Sharla, Laura and […]