The Guinea Pig Diaries: Novel Edition by Piper Bayard I wrote a novel. For five and a half years, I wrote a novel. I didn’t just write it, I rewrote it, rewrote it, and rewrote it again. I ate it, slept it, drank it, and then I found some betareaders, and I rewrote it again. […]

By Laura Drake We were talking at crit group the other night. Our “throwdown” blogs have grown into more than we’d planned originally.  In case you missed them, they were: Plot vs. Character – Linear Writing vs. Non-linear – Originally, we thought to interject some humor, give some helpful links, and make everyone on either […]

by Tiffany Lawson Inman I picked up Harlan Coben’s CAUGHT with the express knowledge that I would find a high intensity/high emotion scene to showcase for another Dramatic Dissection. Why did I think that?  Because of his prologue.  The beginning of this book is darn delicious.  Most of his passages have more power than I’ve […]

by Sharla Rae - (Here's a link to Part 1 in this series!) As we discussed in the last post, for the writer who enjoys history, researching is often the best part of writing a historical novel. The other day, we discussed building the framework. Today we're going to "fill in the rest." Below are a […]

Writers In The Storm is delighted to welcome paranormal writer and blogger, Jami Gold! She'll be stopping in over the next few days to answer any comments you have. (Thanks, Jami!) On my blog last week, I talked about how it’s fascinating to watch a story evolve from a story seed into a full-blown draft.  […]