1 day ago by Paul Krupin

Great article by Alexandra Alter about how to write a great novel: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513463106012106.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_lifestyle The article contains wonderfully personal insights from 11 top novelists into how and when they do their writing. Share Thi ...

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7 days ago by ninaamir

Are your hands posed over the keyboard ready to begin? Are you waiting, as if for the gun to go off so you can start writing your book, e-book, article, essay, query letter, proposal, or whatever work of nonfiction you’ve chosen to create during the Write Nonfiction in November (WNFiN) 2009 challeng ...

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7 days ago by Jennifer Mattern

Today in our “Getting Started” series, we’ll hear from novelist, literary agent, and nonfiction author Evan Marshall. If you’d like writing fiction to be a part of your future, you won’t find a better brain to pick on the topic. I’ve personally been a big fan of his Marshall Plan for Novel Writing f ...

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9 days ago by Dawn Colclasure

What is it with me and giving birth to children at night? Seriously, what's up with that?? My two actual physical children were both born at night -- after 8 p.m. for them both, actually. And now, this evening, at 10:47 p.m., I've officially delivered a metaphorical child. I sent my book off to the ...

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9 days ago by Steve

This morning I had to take my son to the Pretoria Showgrounds on the other side of town to write an exam. To fill in the couple of hours while he was writing, I decided to visit an old friend in West Park. I couldn ‘t quite remember where he lived, so I drove around looking for the place. I wasn’t i ...

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12 days ago by Maralyn

The following excerpt is from 2009 INDIE Finalist, "Success, Your Path to a Successful Book," by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. We are both strongly committed to creativity. Our first exposure to Creative Problem Solving (CPS) was with the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI). They have a ...

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14 days ago by J. Steve Miller

Study and Apply Great “How to Write” Books Although I had to do a lot of writing in college and graduate school, I never took a class specifically on writing. I did study public speaking and applied those communication concepts to my writing. So when I began writing books, I did my own self-study on ...

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15 days ago by J. Steve Miller

Low-platform authors have a hard time getting noticed these days – whether it be by publishers, distributors, or the media. This series of posts tackles the problem of platform with practical tips. Here’s something that helps me. How Research Helped My Book My music book stood out for its research. ...

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19 days ago by maidenfine

Today’s Link: http://www.amazon.com/What-Writing-Exercises-Fiction-Writers/dp/0205616887/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255825008&sr=1-3 Okay. I don’t like linking to things that cost money, mostly because I don’t want people to think I’m getting something out of it. But this link isn’t so much abo ...

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20 days ago by Patrice Sarath

Forget Stephen King’s On Writing. His best book on writing might be Misery. My son has become a Stephen King fan and he just checked out Misery from the school library. I picked it up after he finished and raced through it. I first read it years ago. Still vivid, still as heart-stopping scary as I r ...

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