Who’s On Your Writer’s Playground Team?
In a post on DIY MFA, Julie Carrick Dalton says there are five friends every writer needs. "Writers love to talk about their books, their friends’s...
Introverts Can Find Community Too!
In a post on DIY MFA, JJ Graham offers advice for introverts seeking an online writing community. "It’s terrifying as an introvert to put yourself...
Community Starts with You
Most writers are supportive of their peers and their community. If you're not, Eldred Bird suggests some ways that helping other writers also helps...
Who are Your Writing Mentors?
Harry had Dumbledore. Luke had Obi-Wan and Yoda. But who is your writing mentor?
"Whether it's craft, career, or creativity advice, we benefit from being...
How to Answer When Someone Asks About Your Book
In a post on Writers in the Storm, Karen DeBonis offers advice for solving a conundrum many of us struggle with: how to talk...
8 Tips for Good Beta Reading
The best way to find writer friends to read and critique your work, is to be a writer friend who reads and critiques work. In...
You Have to Give to Get a Squad
In a post on the Stage 32 blog, Kay Ross offers advice on finding your creative squad. "One's creative 'squad' is so important, but...
Give Critiques to Get One
In a guest post on Jane Friedman's blog, editor Kris Spisak says that writers looking for a beta reader should go find other writers...
What Keeps You Accountable?
In a new post, Mary Carroll Moore discusses what accountability means for writers and how we can motivate ourselves to keep going. "Books are...
Tough Love is Also Encouragement
In a post on Writer Unboxed, Keith Cronin shares some tough love from F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Nothing any good isn’t hard," Fitzgerald wrote in a...
