by wordsywoman | Jun 9, 2020 | Writing Craft
Think about the last really good, can’t-put-it-down, up-until-three-in-the-morning-just-one-more-chapter book you read. What was it that kept you reading? It was probably some sort of suspense. You just had to turn one more page to see how things turned out. This...
by wordsywoman | Jun 2, 2020 | Writing Craft
An edited version of this post originally appeared on the Book Marketing Tools website on June 12, 2015 (click here to view it). You’ve no doubt heard more times than you can count how important it is to write, if not every day, at least regularly. But there will be...
by wordsywoman | May 6, 2020 | Writing Craft
On July 9, 2015, I returned from a two-week vacation, one week of which was spent in Glacier National Park in Montana. Since it’s about a 26 hour/1600 mile drive one way from where I live and we didn’t want to pay to fly, we took 4 days to drive there and 3 days to...
by wordsywoman | Apr 7, 2020 | Writing Craft
When novel writing, it’s sometimes easy to forget what your characters look like, especially if you’re like me and can only make weekly appointments to work on it. My workspace is also relatively small considering all of the other things I write and that take up my...
by wordsywoman | Mar 17, 2020 | Writing Craft
When I was a kid, as a way to fall asleep at night, I would picture elaborate “day dreams” in my head. I was always the main character. When I was a teen, these mostly involved imagining how my latest crush would realize his love for me and we would be together....
by wordsywoman | Feb 25, 2020 | Writing Craft
Poetry comes to me in different ways. I never usually sit down and tell myself, “Okay, time to write some poetry.” My poems usually come to me while I’m writing in my journal. I’ll be writing away about mundane, everyday-life things and a poem will just come out in...
