Writing on the Wall

A popular post from January 2008 by Annette Lyon Right up there with what is probably the most touted rule about writing, "Show, do...

A popular post from March 2009 by Annette Lyon I've talked about this before: how the old rule, "write what you know" is h...

A popular post from August 2009 by Heather Moore No, I'm not talking about historicals. In a few weeks, I'll be teaching a coupl...

A popular post from June 2013 by Annette Lyon Last month at the 10th annual Storymakers Writers Conference , Sarah M. Eden and I taught...

A popular post from February 2010.  By Josi S. Kilpack Do you write JUST like Dan Brown? Is your next book the NEXT Harry Potter...

A popular post from May 2010 By Julie Wright I watched a program on Google searches and what they indicate about the people doing the se...

A popular post from June 2010 I stumbled across this fantastic vlog made by Joanna Penn , writer, speaker, and aspiring novelist, as she c...

A popular post from January 2011 by Annette Lyon After yesterday's inspiring and fun post from Julie, today's topic will soun...

A popular post from March 2011 by Annette Lyon If we writers had to be an expert on everything we write about, we'd spend so much ...

A popular post from December 2011 By Julie Wright I've recently discovered the TV series Once Upon a Time. For someone like me, who ...

Welcome, Brian, to our writing blog. We’re excited to hear about your writing journey and how, as a history teacher, you decided to write in...

by Annette Lyon Many of my posts come directly from whatever I'm currently reading or editing, and today is no different. I've been ...

By Josi S. Kilpack "Write what you know" is likely the most touted bit of writing advice any of us have ever heard. I don't th...

By Julie Wright One of the coolest things about writing is the stuff I learn while writing. I dropped out of college my sophomore year becau...

by Annette Lyon Good writers are big readers. They just are. To paraphrase a friend of mine, fiction is a language, and to become fluent in ...

by Annette Lyon Reader question from Terry: Can you, or do you need to copyright short stories to put on a blog? *** A disclaimer: The infor...

I know my day is Tuesday and technically . . . it still is Tuesday. Today in my online writer's group, we had a little discussion on whe...

by Annette Lyon Some of the most beloved novels of all time are historical fiction, written well after the period described in them. Think G...

by Annette Lyon I've heard it a ton of times regarding my historical novels: How can you do so much research? Well, I have a little secr...

by Heather Moore Whether you’re writing a historical novel, a contemporary novel, or a non-fiction how-to book, you need to do your research...