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Covering Our Bases

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Blogger is being obnoxious and frequently putting genuine comments into my blog’s spam folder.  I’ve rescued a few of them and have noticed that the commo...

3 h seit

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed b...

1 Tag seit

What Happens After Writing 3 or 4 Books a Year

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There was an article in the New York Times recently, entitled Writer’s Cramp: In the e-Reader era, a Book a Year is Slacking. Obviously, this is a provocative ...

3 days seit

Writing in Interruptions

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was working away on the fourth Memphis book yesterday, writing an important scene for the book. It’s a scene where a suspect gives important information to m...

5 days seit

Developing a Story Idea

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’d just finished my daily goal for my fourth Memphis book on Thursday when I had a sudden uneasy feeling about the third quilting mystery. When was that outli...

21 Mai 12

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed b...

20 Mai 12

Cozy Mystery Writing Challenges

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Cozy mysteries, also known as traditional mysteries, are lots of fun to write.  But there are some challenges authors will face while writing them. Hope y...

18 Mai 12 1 person likes this

7 Tips for Controlling Our Social Media Time

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re like me, you have a love/hate relationship with social media. I love being connected with other writers and resources—but I hate the way it sucks up ...

17 Mai 12

The Who, What, and Where of Characters and Story--By Sandra Gardner

by Sandra Gardner Since character and story are major elements in a novel, your primary concern as a novelist is to figure out who your characters are, what their motivations are, and where your char...

16 Mai 12

A Random Act of Kindness Blitz

Today, many writers are participating in a special event, created by Becca and Angela at the Bookshelf Muse. Were all focusing on writers who make a difference in the writing community--either on a s...

14 Mai 12

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed b...

13 Mai 12

The Importance of Editing

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m thankful for the rise in dystopian fiction (my son’s favorite genre and one that was difficult to find before the Hunger Games gained prominence) and e-rea...

11 Mai 12

How Much Should We Take Readers into Account as We Write?

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Social media has made it possible for readers to find out more about and connect with their favorite authors. Authors interact on Twitter, Facebook, and throug...

09 Mai 12

Adding Conflict to Our Stories

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigI usually don’t open forwarded videos (or forwarded emails of any kind) unless it’s something I’ve heard a lot about or something that’s gone especially viral (...

07 Mai 12

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed b...

06 Mai 12

A Third Alternative—the Small Press: by Bharti Kirchner

by @bhartikirchner, Bharti Kirchner When I first wrote a draft of Tulip Season I believed it fell in the mainstream category (like my four previous novels), but had a mystery element in it. In time, ...

04 Mai 12

When You Get Stuck

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There comes a point in almost every manuscript where I get a little stuck. I’m either bogged down by the story itself or by outside forces (i.e.—life). It’s no...

02 Mai 12

Why One Traditionally-Pub lished Author is Now Choosing Self-Publishing—b y Jessica Park

by Jessica Park, @JessicaPark24 I am an unapologetic fan of self-publishing. Massive, foam finger-waving fan. But, for the record, I realize that it’s not for everyone. Big publishers have obvious di...

30 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed b...

29 Apr 12

Dont Kill ‘Said Bookisms’ On-Sight--by Chihuahua Zero

by Chihuahua Zero, @chihuahuazero Pick any ten writing blogs in the writing blogosphere, and I bet nine of them will say: "dont use said-bookism!" This is understandable. Excessive amounts of...

27 Apr 12

The One Thing You Should Do to Sell More Books—by Nick Thacker

by Nick Thacker, @NickThacker Twitter, social media platforms, Facebook pages, Google+, Pinterest, in-store signings, KDP Select, etc. All of these things are great innovations for authors, and can c...

25 Apr 12

Platform Building for Writers—Getting Started

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Starting out with book promotion can seem like a tremendous undertaking. And it is. But the important thing to know is that anything you can do online to promo...

23 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig All the links below, and over 15,000 others are found in the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by Mike Fleming—where you can search on any topic ...

22 Apr 12

How Much Lead-In Time do You Really Need?

Right now I’m writing the fourth Memphis Barbeque mystery.  I’m still working on the first draft and, like all first drafts, I’m realizing I’ve got some issues. The biggest one I’ve got right no...

20 Apr 12

The Excitement of What’s Coming Around the Bend in Publishing

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I visited my parents a couple of weeks ago during my children’s spring break. We also helped them to clean out their attic. (It’s hard not to take advantage of...

18 Apr 12

Want to Write a Best Seller? It’s All In Your Genes by Dr. John Yeoman

by Dr. John Yeoman, @Yeomanis “Brace yourself,” my doctor said. “This won’t come easy” he fiddled with his pen “for either of us.” He averted his eyes. I braced myself. “You eat junk food,” he mutter...

16 Apr 12

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig All the links below, and over 15,000 others are found in the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by Mike Fleming—where you can search on any topic ...

15 Apr 12

A Resource for Writers and a Review of “Lowcountry Bribe”

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve got an extra post for y’all this week—a slightly different one than usual, since I’m profiling a particular writer. I wanted to mention both a resource fo...

14 Apr 12

Another Reason Experience is Important for Writers

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I spent the other morning at the DMV. The DMV, for my non-US readers, is the Department of Motor Vehicles. It’s one of those dreaded places here in the States—...

13 Apr 12

Constructing and Weaving in Subplots

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My last post was about my layering approach to writing books, and I got a question from a blog reader about how to create subplots and then how to weave the su...

11 Apr 12

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