Colleen M. Story Have you ever sat down to write and after four minutes found yourself thinking about something else? Were you frustrated? Irritated? Angry at yourself? Well don’t be. With everything we all have going on in our lives—say nothing of all the distractions in today’s world—it’s very difficult to maintain focus on anything, […]

Jennifer Louden Just about every day I read an article about a writer who’s written 988 books in the last three months under seventeen pen names while maintaining an active presence on every social media platform. It’s enough to send me to bed with Netflix and a whole lot of dark chocolate. But after a […]

Tasha Seegmiller Have you ever tried to quit writing? Promised everyone near and far that you were no longer going to keep being the schmuck who pounds the keyboard, willingly and knowingly sending out queries and synopses and manuscripts to those who will, for the most part, reject them? How long did you last? I’ve […]

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine Into Gold Imagine looking in the mirror one morning and finding that you had shrunk to half of your height. Whoa. That would be jarring. Frankly, all sudden change is jarring. This is why so many readers turn to story—to examine the way extreme pressures usher a fictional protagonist to the […]

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