Story Telling vs. Story Trapping, by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
The process of writing the first draft of book one of The Guardian Herd Series was magical for me. The story leapt from my head, fully formed, like Venus. There is something sacred about that, right? You don’t mess with a story straight from the muse, do you? I thought you didn’t. I thought a […]
I Believe in NaNoWriMo
—A Guest Post from Melissa F. Olson, whose debut DEAD SPOTS was just published by 47North For thirteen years now, a small non-profit organization based out of SanFranscisco has transformed the otherwise boring month of November into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short), which is, as they put it, “thirty days and nights of […]
When Your Book Hits the Shelves
by Anne Greenwood Brown The experience of writing a book can be life changing, or at least personality changing. Even if you say, I’m just writing for myself, you’ll never be the same. Writing will allow you to explore fears you would never tell your therapist, say things that would get most people slapped, and […]