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A Graphic Novel I'm a year behind in writing book reviews. Many of the books I read were popular and have no need for my support, so I'll...

Well, I sm typing leftie because I broke my right clavicle when the gravel got me coming down a small slope. Ouch. Fortunately,...

While I advocate participating in a critique group to test your writing and get constructive feedback, there are down sides of critique.

There's no iron-clad rule saying what comes first when you are writing. I throw my characters into a situation and see how they deal with it

Free webinars may be a sales pitch - that doesn't mean they're useless. Webinars by Carla King and Rob Eagar discussed with resource links.

Every character has a bit of the writer in there - even villains. Sometimes a character develops in unexpected ways and takes over the story

In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King says "Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's."

Are you serious about writing if you're not writing daily?... I am a project-based worker. I can maintain a regular writing routine for a

Let's look at King's Toolbox recommendations. The tool used most often goes on top: Vocabulary... Usually the first word... is the best one.

In On Writing, Stephen King says "Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." We develop our ear for language through reading.

As a young child, I routinely took home a foot-high stack of library books, read them, and returned for a new stack the next week. I was...

The next few blogs, I'm going to pull out quotes from Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and talk about them a bit.

As writers, we listen to understand - whether it's an interview for an article or just eavesdropping on an interesting conversation

Memory may be fact or fiction. This is one of the reasons it's so important to verify facts from multiple sources when writing non-fiction.

Whether or no that publisher takes the book, their deadline got me to pull it together - a satisfying end to 2023.

Amongst other things in my email this morning was a link to a short story contest that sounded interesting.... reading the rules came first.

To help plan next year, I'm going to spend the next week focusing on one of the principles of Kwanza each day... Baby steps count.

Looking back, I accidentally pulled my first all-nighter in fifth grade. When my parents went to bed, I told them I just had to copy my...

Always write for your audience. I write social histories for sentence mitigation attorneys. My audience is the judge.

Write for your audience: Age. Not every person of a given age is identical, but knowing the age of your audience gives you a starting point.

I frequently recommend that anyone purchasing self-publishing services check the Watch Dog page of ALLi - but there's another reason to go.

Always write for your Audience. The first consideration? Is this just for you, for your family and friends, or do you want the world to...

Recently, I got some excellent critique from a professional editor who is familiar with current trends. This was on the opening of a...