Meaningful quotes, inspiration, encouragement and ideas come from the unlikeliest places. Having one in mind can make a difference in our ability to focus, to keep moving forward, and to face obstacles in our writing life and beyond.
Before you can move forward with your writing career, leave behind pernicious myths of writing and publishing, so you can travel forward lighter and faster. Here’s myth buster, author and writing teacher, Catharine Bramkamp, to dispel five more writing myths.
Take A Stand: Art Can Change The World, But Not Just Art When I was a child I read late into the night and was driven to be a writer. I scribbled in artist...
In this time of upheaval and potential for great change — for the better or worse is up to each of us –, I have some writing resources for you because through our art...
When soldiers get bored they do some fun and interesting things. Great details to add to your military romance novel. Take it from a writer and former military spouse, Ann Woodford.
A copyright will always outlive its creator. So what is a person supposed to do with a copyright once they inherit it? Discover the 5 things you should know and do when you inherit a copyright by literary lawyer, Kelly Way.
Discover how to craft a story and characters readers love by creating a main character with agency, including a clear goal, motivation, and conflict by editor and novelist, Kay Keppler.
All the talk about “the New Normal” and how things will never be the same again post-pandemic got me thinking about my novel-in-progress and how certain things in it would be different in today’s world. A writer’s creative process.
In these unprecedented times, where we have no idea when the “new normal” will arrive nor what it will look like, or even if it will arrive, we need to believe we are infinitely...
Check out this productive rant about setting goals as a novelist, by sci-fi romance author, Keri Kruspe. Uncover how setting goals will help set you free and achieve what you want as a writer.
Before you can move forward as a writer, it’s important to leave behind many of the durable writing myths that slow progress as well as set you up for disappointment and frustration. Here are the first five of ten by author and writing teacher, Catharine Bramkamp.
Create your pitch statement before you start writing a book, so it can become your secret weapon. But writing the one-sentence pitch is the most difficult task a writer faces. How do we coalesce the soul of our book into a few words?
Have you been thinking “Wow! With the shelter-in-place I have all this extra time on my hands, now is my chance to pound out a work of creative genius!”? But then, when you sit down to the computer you’re feeling creatively stuck? Look to the Five Elements for help.
If plot stymies you, as it does many people, you might be able to stimulate some ideas by thinking about your characters and what is likely to happen to a person like that. Ask yourself these questions. By novelist and editor, Kay Kappler.
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