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Updated: Dec. 2025 Writer’s Fun Zone welcomes Guest Columnists! Thank you for considering to write for us! BE SURE TO READ ABOUT US HERE. Approved or pre-approved authors, click here for what to send...
by Beth Barany · Published November 13, 2009 · Last modified December 29, 2025
Updated: Dec. 2025 Writer’s Fun Zone welcomes Guest Columnists! Thank you for considering to write for us! BE SURE TO READ ABOUT US HERE. Approved or pre-approved authors, click here for what to send...
As part of my wrap up for 2018, I want to thank all my Writer’s Fun Zone guest writers for past year. Thank you! Thank you for your sharing your passion with us! I’ve...
Before my novella was changed into a novel, I begun to think about querying agents. I researched everything I could about how to write query letters and studied samples from published authors. Most of the samples suggested adding a paragraph at the end of your letter to tell a little about yourself and your writing experience.
At the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference earlier this month, I came away with this important message: Editors and agents are looking for a unique voice and vision; and readers of all ages enjoy weird, subversive stories.
Clothes can give your reader an important first impression of your character.
Welcome back to another one of Writer’s Fun Zone’s monthly columnists: Wyatt Bessing. A writing coach and teacher, author, Wyatt Bessing shares his fun take on games, play, and how they help our writing. This month Wyatt...
Creativity Tools and Tips / Play and Games / Writing Tips / Writing Workshop
by Beth Barany · Published June 6, 2013 · Last modified June 3, 2013
Organizing a writing workshop, if even just for you, is a great way to schedule writing time into your otherwise hectic schedule.
Imagine the power of objects: we covet them, store them, save them from generation to generation, and allow them to fill our living spaces with emotion and memory.
Welcome back to another one of Writer’s Fun Zone’s monthly columnists: Wyatt Bessing. A writing coach and teacher, author, Wyatt Bessing shares his fun take on games, play, and how they help our writing....
Guest Columnists / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published February 26, 2013 · Last modified February 28, 2013
Welcome back to another one of Writer’s Fun Zone’s monthly columnists: Wyatt Bessing. A writing coach and teacher, author, Wyatt Bessing shares his fun take on games, play, and how they help our writing....
How often have you journeyed off to some exotic destination and brought along your notebook, expecting to record your observations in prose so eloquent and poetic that it would forever change the perceptions and very lives of your readers? Or you at least assumed that the wonder you felt would marginally translate itself to the page, all that majesty entering your words through osmosis?
The Paper Lantern Writers, a collective of historical fiction writers across multiple genres, answer questions about their group.
Celebrate what writing you accomplished this summer. Join Writer’s Fun Zone monthly columnist Nevada McPherson as she shares her accomplishments and reflects on her process for what’s next.
by Guest Contributor · Published September 10, 2019 · Last modified September 5, 2019
There’s so much more to pacing than where you place commas or semicolons. Novelist Sue Razi shares tips on pacing and how they can enhance your fiction and hook your readers.
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