
Category: advice for writers


What Are Darlings and Why Do These Writers Want Them Killed?

7 Reasons to Revise Your Conclusions

Edit and Proofread B4 U Publish

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

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?

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

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
