How to Order Your Writing when Disorder is Your Goal
Continuing their series with guest host Peng Shepherd, the Writing Excuses hosts discuss "order-less reading order." In a sense, this disordered reading experience is...
30 Magnificent MacGuffins
Does your Indiana Jones need an Ark of the Covenant? Does your Sam Spade need a Maltese Falcon? Your Darth Vader an R2D2? A post...
Why We Fight
In the latest in her series for Writer's Digest, trained fighter and author Carla Hoch says that any fight scene should have a strong...
Putting the Fun in Funeral
A little light murder never hurt anyone. Clue, Knives Out, Only Murders in the Building - all mix comedy with mystery. In an article...
How Much Distance Do You Need for Editing?
During an interview with the Creative Penn podcast, Tiffany Yates Martin talks about editing your manuscript. How can you create distance from your manuscript in...
What Makes You Uncomfortable?
In a post on Writer Unboxed, Leslie Budewitz suggests that writers avoid their work when they approach something that makes them uncomfortable. She offers...
Salvation at the End of a Gun
Murder by Gaslight shares the tragic tale of Salvation Army Captain Hattie Smith, murdered in Nebraska in 1891. After an event honoring a French...
Journaling: The “Shadow Side” of Writing Practice
In a post on Lit Hub, Kate Folk examines how keeping a journal helps with her fiction writing. "Journaling forms the shadow side of my...
Keep Minor Characters Minor
In a new blog post, Anne R. Allen shares her advice for developing great secondary characters who don't take over your story. "There’s an old...
Editing is a Process, so Don’t Skimp
In the latest in the Writer's Digest series of "mistakes writers make", Managing Editor Moriah Richard tells writers not to skimp on the editing...
