by Becca Puglisi As I’m sure you’ve heard roughly a gajillion times, your story’s first pages are very important. Editors and agents typically request just a portion of your story’s opening, and potential buyers read only a sampling when they’re looking for books to buy. So whichever publishing route you take, those first pages are […]

by James R. Preston  A Conversation About Pushing the Envelope Of First Person “There are some men who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.” One for the Money by Janet Evanovich “Got a walk-in client today. Named Fitch. Guess it’s what I get […]

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy “Not enough conflict” is a phrase I’d wager most writers have heard at some point in their journeys. It’s a complicated term that encompasses more than just a single event in a book, yet we often use it as if a novel has one conflict. We also use it to mean […]

Colleen M. Story Should you spend the money to go to that writing conference? Pay for a professional edit on your book?  Invest in new computer equipment for your writing office?  Risk cutting back on work hours so you can write more? Making a decision can be frightening. What if you make the wrong one […]

Writers in the Storm is having a "Writing Event" on Monday, April 15. Write Up A Storm is a one-day sprint-writing bash on Facebook, designed to motivate and sustain your writing throughout the day. Even if that day job impinges on your time, you can participate before work, during lunch and after hours. We'll be here. Writing. Piling […]