Musings: Writing

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Outstanding Resources for Writers

Sylvia Schwartz has compiled one of the best, most comprehensive collection of resources for writers I have ever seen. It includes...

Rewrite, Rinse, Repeat

You’re feeling good. You’ve completed your first novel, gotten good feedback from your peers, and you’re ready to pitch it. Then you hand...

Bookstores

Independent bookstores are the best! Here are some of my favorites. I invite you to contribute your own. My local favorite: The Open Book...

Backstory - Do's and Don'ts

No matter how experienced we are as writers, it never hurts to go over basic techniques, like how to write backstory, dialogue,...

Writing Description

Stephen King probably says it best in his memoir On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: “Description is what makes the reader a sensory...

What to do with Rejection Notices

Those of you who have been submitting work to publishers for many years have probably collected more rejection slips than you’d care to...