By Sharla Rae We’ve all experienced brain freeze and no, I don’t mean writers’ block. Writers’ block is when you don’t know what comes next in the story or you’ve written yourself into a corner and can’t find a way out. Think of brain freeze as a frozen lake. All the fish are still alive […]

by Fae Rowen The joke in here at WITS is that I sit in my living room waiting for an editor to knock on my front door and ask, “Do you have a book I can buy?”  Yep, pretty passive.  Lots of backstory on why I haven’t sent out requested manuscripts, but here’s what’s going […]

  by Jenny Hansen As you might have guessed from some earlier blogs, I work with accountants. Accountants’ fingers tap a keyboard, particularly over on the 10-key side, like nothing you’ve ever seen. Seeing the mountains of paperwork that go in and out is nothing short of astonishing during tax season. Yet, with all that […]

In April, 2010, when Writers In The Storm was launched, we never contemplated making 50 posts, much less 100. We started this "blogging thing" as part of our yearly critique group goals. We didn't know we'd have so much fun. We didn't know we'd have so much to say. We didn't know we'd LOVE IT!

Laura Drake WARNING – SPOILERS AHEAD You may want to stand back a bit. I’m about to gush, and you don’t want to get it on you.