Shannon Donnelly is back this month with a topic that I have spoken with other authors about, but never seen in a blog before. I can't wait to read the comments, to see what you all think!  Here's Shannon: Something happens when you read a lot—very often stories come to you. A lot of folks […]

I came across a quote the other day by Mortimer J. Adler - "In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you" - that was perfectly timed. Why? Because I'd recently read a beautifully written book that […]

Writers In The Storm welcomes back literary attorney, Susan Spann, with her next installment of her  author’s business plan series. By Susan Spann Today we take the discussion of author business plans “on the clock” with section five of the author business plan – the Development Timeline. This Development Timeline section actually contains a group […]

By Laura Drake It seems I’m always confessing in my blogs. I’m not sure I want to know what that says about me, but I know wherever my mother is, she’s proud that she had some influence. But that is, as they say, ‘a different meeting.’ I suck at tracking time in my novels. You […]

Writers In The Storm is delighted to have Janice Hardy back. We love her and the fabulous writing resources on her blog, The Other Side of the Story. *********************** Decades ago, a detached, omniscient point of view was all the rage. Readers wanted to be told a story, so the stories read as if someone […]