Bringing Your Life Story to Life
by Jennifer Silva Redmond I recently read an article in the Spectator called “Biography is a Thoroughly Reprehensible Genre”. The writer commented on the amount of pointless detail in most Continue reading
Category: Craft
Monstrous Writing Growth
by Cary Christopher and Lisanne Harrington Growth. Like the Boogeyman, it’s all around us. Our gardens are filled with growing flowers and, if we have a brown thumb like Lisanne, Continue reading
Growing Your Craft with Writing Workshops
by Ara Grigorian Learning: A Life-Long Part of the Writer’s Journey Years ago, when I decided it was time to get serious about writing, I bought Writer’s Digest magazine, because Continue reading
Old Lessons to Grow Your Writing: Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
by Kimberly Peticolas Let me take you back to your high school English class. Don’t worry, the rest of high school you can continue to forget! Now if you will Continue reading
How to Grow Your Characters: Nothing But a Spark to Fully Realized People
This post first appeared Feb 14, 2017, for our Valentine’s Day special. However, I thought the lessons were worth repeating. Here’s to growing your characters from nothing, to well-developed “real” Continue reading
A Monstrous Temptation
by Cary Christopher and Lisanne Harrington Temptation. It’s one of a writer’s greatest challenges when it comes to focusing on what’s important. You’ve got a great idea for a brand Continue reading
Quality vs. Quantity
by Sven Michael Davison How good am I as a writer? I find most of us who proclaim membership in this reclusive tribe have asked this question of ourselves. I Continue reading
How to Project Manage Creativity
by Ananya Ridenour In my “real job” as a project manager, I make lists, plans, and schedules of the tasks that need to be done and how to achieve them. Continue reading
Find the Time to Write
by Megan Haskell As many of you know, I’m a stay-at-home mom with a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old. As you can probably imagine, my time is pretty limited. But in Continue reading
Stepping Up Your 2018
by Valerie Davisson Before we get started, how was your 2017? If you set writing goals, did you reach them? When I looked back over the year, I felt pretty Continue reading