Category: advice for writers
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
Memoir: Linear Stories or Hither and Yon?
Tangential Brains and the Left Turn at Albuquerque
What If No One Reads This? OMG, What If They Do?
Distinguish Thoughts and Feelings: Double the Descriptions and Dialogues
The Energy of the Personal Blog
What Are Darlings and Why Do These Writers Want Them Killed?
What’s Your Writing Process? Planned Piece or Prompt?
Don’t Rest on Your Laurels – They’ll Just Go Flat
Why Won’t They Read the Entire Post?
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
Because I Could Not Draw, I Became an Artist with Words
Point of View: Do You Tell Stories, Educate or Enchant?
Take a Risk: Write More than “What You Know”
Wish I’d Said That and How to Use Quotes
Edit and Proofread B4 U Publish
7 Reasons to Revise Your Conclusions
Breadth or Depth? How Will I Frame This Post?
Writers, Are You Helping Readers Find You?
Are You Talking When You Write?
Small Towns: Big Inspirations
Organic Talent or Did You Have to Learn to Write?
The basics of a strong sentence: A subject, a verb, and direct object
Taking a step back
Advice on Writing Great Fiction
