Category: advice for writers
Organic Talent or Did You Have to Learn to Write?
Because I Could Not Draw, I Became an Artist with Words
Memoir: Linear Stories or Hither and Yon?
What If No One Reads This? OMG, What If They Do?
The Energy of the Personal Blog
Don’t Rest on Your Laurels – They’ll Just Go Flat
Why YA is the Genre Close to My Heart
7 Reasons to Revise Your Conclusions
Where Do I Find My Readers?
Take a Risk: Write More than “What You Know”
Why Won’t They Read the Entire Post?
Small Towns: Big Inspirations
Point of View: Do You Tell Stories, Educate or Enchant?
What’s Your Writing Process? Planned Piece or Prompt?
How I learned to Pulverise my Inner Procrastinator
How Biased is Your Writing?
OUTSMART THE STARTING BLUES
Blog or Article? Why Not Both in a Blarticle?
Do published books make you an expert in your subject?
Dear Anxious Aspiring Author
WHAT FUELS YOUR FIRE? ONE ANSWER: KINDLING!
A Lemonade Stand Serves up Writing Lessons
Get Sharpened Then Write Dangerously
FIGHT OFF LAZY LANGUAGE: WATCH TV
Owning the Title of Writer
Tangential Brains and the Left Turn at Albuquerque
Distinguish Thoughts and Feelings: Double the Descriptions and Dialogues
What Are Darlings and Why Do These Writers Want Them Killed?
A Writer Is . . .
Wish I’d Written That Years Ago
The Importance of Writing
Complex can still be Catchy
Corrected Content Respects the Reader
Why Say It in Fewer Words?
Calling All Pirates: Plunder the Spoils of the Internet
Wish I’d Said That and How to Use Quotes
Breadth or Depth? How Will I Frame This Post?
Are You Talking When You Write?
The basics of a strong sentence: A subject, a verb, and direct object
Taking a step back
Advice on Writing Great Fiction
