52 days ago by Mittster

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - W. M. Lewis This quote was posted by my friend Leslie Menninger on Facebook recently. She is always sharing wonderful quotes daily that instill the best feelings humans can experience. This particular quote stru ...

54 days ago by Kristin McFarland

How much do you get out of writing books and magazines? I love writing magazines. I saw a quote somewhere to the effect of, “Writing is like sex. Do it, don’t talk about it,” and I totally disagree. I love talking about writing, I love reading about writing, I love writing about writing. And most pe ...

68 days ago by Renée A. Schuls-Jacobson

Enter my free reading glasses giveaway which ends December 16th. Details HERE I have been writing a manuscript for almost 8 years. When I write that sentence, it is only slightly less embarrassing than when I say it out loud. Some writers pop out books every other year. Not me. I used to joke that I ...

72 days ago by Pedro Ramirez III

Catching up with my Web trolling now that NanoWriMo is over. I found this Writer's Digest post with 90 quotes to inspire writers. The quotes themselves focus on writing advice offered by bestselling writers like Stephen King, Tom Clancy and John Grisham. So check it out. Also, speaking of writing ad ...

80 days ago by preciseedit

Each sentence provides new information to readers. How do you connect the information, and how do you make the sentences seem logical and smooth? You use sentence transitions. 300 Days of Better Writing has several strategies for creating sentence transitions, 2 of which are here. The first strategy ...

84 days ago by Barbara Meyers

Flirting in Cars by Alisa Kwitney. Sort of a women’s fiction/romance story. I liked it. Glitter Baby by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I thought I’d read everything of hers, but I must have missed this one. True to form, SEP never disappoints her readers. Violet by Design by Melissa Walker. I don’t norma ...

92 days ago by SaraEvans

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94 days ago by Nina Amir

Writing a memoir involves remembering bits and pieces of your life and putting them down on paper. After all, a memoir covers a portion of your life—a few months, a year, a few years—that happened previously. And sometimes this period of time lies in your distant past. It may seem like remembering t ...

94 days ago by John Kremer

One question authors get asked a lot is: Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Well, here's where I got my idea for a new Kindle ebook, 101 Ways to Blog as an eBook Author. I got the idea earlier this evening while listening to Ty Cohen present his Kindle Cash Flow webinar. I thought: Why not turn some of my ...

95 days ago by Nina Amir

I love producing short books fast, and I often teach workshops on this topic. Writers get very excited about becoming a published author in under a month. What better time to try writing and publishing a short book fast than during Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN), when you are challenged to sta ...