Writers In The Storm is delighted to welcome back Elizabeth Craig, one of the most giving writers we know. She released her latest Southern Quilting Mystery last month and stopped by WITS to help the rest of us take some of the guesswork out of writing mysteries. ************ By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig So you’re a big mystery […]

by Orly Konig-Lopez The other day my husband stayed home and was working on the couch so I decided to work at the kitchen table to be close. (Cue the "Awwww"… okay, are we done?) So here I am, typing away, lost in the world I was creating in my head with “real” people who live […]

by Sharla Rae The first thing writers learn about Point of View, or POV, is that it refers to whose head we’re in. In other words: through whose perspective will the reader experience the sounds, smells, actions and emotions of a story/scene? Seems simple, but as writers it isn’t always easy to decide which character should […]

by Marcy Kennedy Most of us think of a logline, tagline, and pitch as marketing tools we write after we’ve written our story so that we can use them to land an agent or as our book’s cover copy. We’re doing it backwards. If we wait until we’re done with our book, any problems our […]

by Jenny Hansen Earlier this year, we started talking about Microsoft Excel and all the ways writers could use it without hyperventilating. In case you missed the other two posts, I've linked them below: Part 1 - Excel Shortcuts and Helpful Tricks Part 2 - Doing Formulas without Freaking Out Laura Drake also did a […]