Five Links Friday is upon us. Enjoy! 1. Let’s start the week with a post by Derek Haines with a warning about signing a bad contract. I’m with him there. Be careful out there, folks: Authors Beware – Think Twice Before Signing A Contract 2. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader,” right? Emma Darwin […]
What I Learned from Judging a Writing Contest
This winter I had the honor of being asked to join the panel of judges in the annual Winter Writing Contest hosted at The Write Practice. While I’ll admit it was a time consuming activity, I found it thoroughly enlightening and am so happy I was able to participate in this contest. Over 300 writers […]
What to do when you get stuck in the middle of your novel
I was making decent progress on a novel I had been working on. It’s got a solid outline mapping out a few of the major characters arcs and the overlying plot. But a little over a third of the way in, I realized something terrible. The scene I happened to be typing was…boring. It felt […]
Five Links Friday 1/20/17
It’s Friday and you know what that means? Five Links Friday! Give ’em a look. 1. Let’s start with a look at freelancing by Kirsty Stuart at Freelance Writers Online with What My Driving Instructor Taught Me About Being a Freelance Writer. 2. Here’s an interesting article from The Guarding looking at The Da Vinci Code […]
Podcast Episode 28 – Writing Pet Peeves
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott look at a few of the things they see in writing that just get on their nerves, as they take turns discussing their writing pet peeves. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About […]
10 Pieces of Advice for New Writers in 2017
With 2017 already 18 days (!) old, I thought I’d like to post something for some of the aspiring writers out there who may be picking up the proverbial pen for the first time this year, or maybe giving writing another chance after a long break. If you’re new at this writing thing and happened […]
Write What You Love: A Brief History of My Horror Fandom
Horror has been my favorite genre going back almost as far as I can remember. I have fond memories of being a kids and staying up late with my dad, falling asleep on the couch while we watched Elvira’s back & white classic monster movie of the week. I can barely remember what any of […]
What you can learn from your abandoned stories
In a post last week, I talked about how I’m going to take a little break from novels and try to boost my writing morale by finishing a couple of short stories. I decided to work on a paranormal horror story that has been sitting in my WIP folder for…wow, for like six years. Here’s […]
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