Writing on the Wall

A popular post from April 2008 by Julie Wight Everyone says writing should mirror real life, I am here to say, okay. But not mirror exact...

A popular post from April 2008 Yeah, so I haven't posted in, oh, six weeks. I realized this morning that if I hadn't missed so ma...

A popular post from April 2008 by Heather Moore In Jack Bickham’s The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes (Chapter 6), he warns us ...

A popular post from April 2008 by Annette Lyon To some people, they're an outdated form of punctuation. To others, they're one ...

A popular post from December 2007 By Julie Wright This isn't about you--the writer. If you're not motivated to write, go yell at...

A popular post from December 2007 by Annette Lyon One of the most powerful recurring themes in all of literature is that of death. I...

A popular post from February 2008 By Josi S. Kilpack About four years ago I first heard about Writer's Digest, a magazine written s...

A popular post from February 2008 by Annette Lyon Recently I edited a couple of books by talented writers. In both cases, the bulk of my...

A popular post from February 2008 by Lu Ann Staheli What is genre? Some people might think it’s just a silly sounding French word, but w...

A popular post from February 2008 by Lu Ann Staheli Characters exist in both fiction and non-fiction. In fiction we know these people, a...

A popular post from February 2008 by Annette Lyon I've discussed elements in Vogler's book The Writer's Journey , which is a...

A popular post from January 2008 By Julie Wright This is just some good old fashioned nuts and bolts writing information for today. I am...

A popular post from January 2008 By Josi S. Kilpack 10--I wish I'd known about the need to become a public speaker. It might have ta...

A popular post from January 2008 by Annette Lyon Where should you start your story? That's the magic question so many writers wres...

A popular post from January 2008 by Annette Lyon Humor in writing is tough to get right. It's all too easy for a joke to go just sli...

A popular post from January 2008 By Julie Wright Of course you're hearing voices. You're an author . . . we can't help it. B...

A popular post from March 2009 by Annette Lyon You've likely heard the debate between two basic camps of writers: those who swear by...

A popular post from October 2009 By Julie Wright Madeleine L'Engle quoted someone who'd said her success hadn't affected her...

A popular post from March 2009 By Josi S. Kilpack They year is 1999. The Place is my dining room in my house in Draper, Utah. The bo...

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...