Truths about Publishing You Can Only Learn in the Trenches
Though professional behavior should go without saying in your field of work–in this case, publishing–you’d be surprised just how damned infrequent it is. It’s important [Read More]
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32 Ways To Write About Fear
One of our most popular posts on Writers Write is 37 Ways To Write About Anger. We thought we would look at interesting ways to write [Read More]
30 Things I’ve Learned About the Writing Life
On Thanksgiving, I celebrated 30 years since the sale of my first book. It’s a crazy milestone and made me consider this writing and publishing [Read More]
How to Plan, Write, and Develop a Book: Writing about People You Know: Do You Need to Get Permission?
A reader from Connecticut is finishing up her new novel this month, getting ready to send it out to agents. She sent me a good [Read More]
Everything You Need to Know About First-Person Narrative
Amateurs and careless writers use first-person narration that sounds remarkably like themselves. But if you’re into characterization, or a character-centered story, you’ll love discovering each [Read More]
Monday Musings: “About That Call”
Hi everyone! I know it’s been a long time since I posted a “Monday Musing” but I’m finally in a good place to stop and [Read More]
Agent Myth Busters: 5 Common Misconceptions About Literary Agents
A mother-daughter pair of agents debunks 5 common misconceptions. By Cari Lamba and Marie Lamba We literary agents do most of our work behind the [Read More]
4 Things Writers Need To Know About Author Readings
— Written by Lev Raphael I’ve done hundreds of invited talks and readings on three different continents and I love being out there with my [Read More]
What Starting a Business and Launching a Book Have in Common: It’s All About the Investment
When you’re launching a book, your job is to find readers, engage with readers, write good books, and sell the heck out of said book(s). [Read More]
25 Truths About the Work of Writing
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer whose latest post is scheduled to publish on Labor Day must, when considering topics, find herself [Read More]
Healey Launches Competition for Stories About Teenage Depression
Emma Healey, the author of Elizabeth is Missing, is urging aspiring authors to enter a new competition for stories about teenage depression…. Healey launched the [Read More]
13 Books About The English Language That Will Change What You Know About Writing And Reading
Language is a funny thing. If you’re reading this sentence, for example, there’s a good chance that you speak and understand English perfectly well. But [Read More]
5 Tips for Writing About Politics in Fiction
Some say the key to keeping any social gathering cordial is not to talk about politics or religion. I think that’s probably very true. And [Read More]
How to Write a Killer ‘About Me’ Page
Here is a crazy statistic: 92% of consumers in the U.S. want their favorite brands to tell more stories. We already know that consumers prefer [Read More]
14 Stephen King quotes about writing you totally need to hang on your wall
The first Stephen King book I ever read was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I was still in my teens, and my gran — [Read More]
10 Things to Blog About When You’re a Brand-New Author
With all the advice that’s thrown at any new writer looking to get published, this one’s heard the most: I’m willing to put all my [Read More]
Top 10 books about time
From St Augustine’s philosophy to HG Wells’s science fiction, these are some of the best books about a subject that is both very familiar and [Read More]
Five explorative writing exercises that will surprise you about yourself
As my daily writing experiments have shown, he is right. Writing can reveal a lot about the world and ourselves. The sheer act of writing [Read More]