Tag: fiction
25 Ways to (Pumpkin) Spice Up Your Writing
No matter where or when your story takes place, take your pick of these ideas & prompts for using the best of fall to inspire your pages.
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The Career Authors 11: Adriana Trigiani
On the eve of her new release, The Good Left Undone, bestselling novelist & screenwriter Adriana Trigiani shares her best advice for writers.
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6 Tips for Smarter Novel Research
by Jess Montgomery When people ask me how I research my Kinship Historical...
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Behind the Pages: The Next Thing You Know
Jessica Strawser shares the inside story behind her much-anticipated new novel, The Next Thing You Know, out this week.
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Lessons Learned Switching to YA
Writing adult fiction, with an eye on the YA market? Making the switch might be easier than you think.
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What Does Your Character Do All Day?
By some estimates, we spend a third of our lives at work. Let that sink in: A third. No wonder...
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Writing Faith in Fiction
Thriller writer, co-author, and Navy veteran Jeffrey Wilson talks “Writing Faith in Fiction” in this week’s guest post on Career Authors.
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YOUR NONFICTION IS SHOWING: What Nonfiction Writers Should Learn—Or Unlearn—to Write Good Fiction
When you write nonfiction as part of your day job but you’re writing a novel by night, your early efforts at fiction may fall short because “your nonfiction is showing.” Here’s what to do about it.
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A WRITER’S GRATITUDE JOURNAL
Keeping a writer’s gratitude journal can remind us that being a writer is a blessing, even in bad times–or maybe especially in bad times. Here’s a list of things to be grateful for, just get you started.
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Comfort Zone
Writing Prompt: Your story begins at the end of your protagonist’s comfort zone.
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The Organizing Principle, for Fun and Profit
Does your work have a strong organizing principle? It’s not what happens in your story, but rather how you choose to frame what happens in your story.
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How to Write a Book Proposal (and why you should read this whether you’re writing one or not)
Sooner or later, you may face the challenge of how to write a book proposal. If you’re writing nonfiction or memoir, it’s obligatory. But even if you are not, you should know what’s included.
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