How to Keep on Writing When the World is on Fire

How to Keep on Writing When the World is on Fire

By Paula Munier Okay, so the world is on fire. But that’s no excuse not to get our writing done. Or is it? Admittedly, the chaos happening out there in the world can distract us even when we’re tucked inside our writing room away from it all. Because we are living in...
Unlock Your Writing Brain with Pen and Paper

Unlock Your Writing Brain with Pen and Paper

In the beginning, pen and paper were touted as the writer’s best friend. With the advent of the typewriter, writers took up writing by machine, and in the wake of computers, many authors—and the public at large—abandoned handwriting altogether. Typing has replaced...
Writing as Play: 7 Ways to Put the Fun Back into Writing

Writing as Play: 7 Ways to Put the Fun Back into Writing

Roses are red Violets are blue If Anthony Horowitz can have fun writing So can you. At a recent indie bookstore event, award-winning thriller writer Paul Doiron interviewed the one-and-only Anthony Horowitz, international bestselling author and screenwriter of such...
Noodling 101: How to Generate Good Ideas… Fast!

Noodling 101: How to Generate Good Ideas… Fast!

“There’s always the next book.” Louise DeSalvo That’s what Louise DeSalvo says. DeSalvo is the author of The Art of Slow Writing, which I purchased as a kind of hair shirt and read as a kind of guilty pleasure. As a mystery writer expected to turn out a book a year,...

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