Need some ideas about how to handle The Waiting Game?

Just when you think it will never come, spring arrives. Image: ©Laurel Decher, 2018. Over at The Winged Pen there’s a post from 2018 about what to do while you’re waiting. . . . . .for query responses, . . .for editors, . . .or for anything else in the writing life that requires another […]

Serious about Writing a Series?

This handy infographic will help you sketch out your next series in no time. Points to techniques from experienced and generous authors: Mary Robinette Kowal, Robin Stevens, Susan Kaye Quinn, Writing Excuses podcast, Rachel Aaron, and literary super-agent, Gemma Cooper. With this all-star cast of online mentors, you’ll be raring to write.

Sketching, the “saggy middle” and The Winged Pen

Today, I’m over at The Winged Pen’s Master Your Craft blog post series. What–you ask–is Master Your Craft? Each Wednesday, the Winged Pen discusses prewriting and drafting a new book from the BIG IDEA to QUERYING. (Handy list of Master Your Craft topics so far.) My post is about that devious stretch of story landscape […]