Sitemap - 2009 - Your Weekly Writing Exercise

Working with Unsavory Characters

What Makes Strong Writing? Something to Think about as You Work on Your Book

A New Way to Do a Storyboard for Your Book

Next Week--Join Me for a Wonderful Book-Structuring Workshop

Finding Your Story's Pathways--The Art of Rethinking What Your Book Is About

Ever Seen Your Name in Lights? I Just Did!

Three Aspects that Make Writing Healing--And Create Good Books

Beginning and Ending Chapters--Bookends You Can Work on First

Book Signing--Sunday, November 1, 2:00 p.m. at Hickory Stick Bookshop, Washington Depot, CT, www.hickorystickbookshop.com for directions

Pushing vs Resting--Why We Need Both Will and Vision to Complete a Book

Five Things You'd Never, Ever Do for Yourself

Creative People Have Two Jobs

Responding to What's Out There--Writing Letters to the Editor

The Power of Unanswered Questions

So Your Book Is Finally Written and Published--How Do You Launch It?

Reading My Own Novel--A Lesson in What Happens When You're Not Looking

How to Use Your Writing Notebooks to Feed Your Book

Path of Least Resistance

Keeping It Contained--Why Writing Short Can Help You Write Long

Persistence--What You Learn When Your Book Is Finally Published

Your Book's Container--And How to Write It

Writing past the Summertime Blahs

Linkage--A Great Technique to Beat the (Writer's) Block

Entering Your Story through the Smallest Detail--an Exercise with Buttons

Dilemma, Players, Container--Three Essentials for Chapter One

Keeping Your Book Project Alive--While Living a Normal Life

Emotional Punch in Your Writing--Why Setting and Show-Don't-Tell Deliver Emotion

Necessary Boredom--Why Nonstop Rainy Days Actually Help Creativity

Self-Assignments and the Writer's Notebook

How to Balance Structure and Exploration in Your Book Writing Process

Toggling between the Arts--Refresh Your Writer Mind

God--and Emotion in Your Writing--Is in the Details

Building Just Enough Fire in Your Story to Attract a Reader

Marrying Two Things That Don't Go Together--A Book-Writing Exercise

Your Ideal Reader--Advice from Kurt Vonnegut

Being Stuck--Ideas on How to Work with Your Inner Critic

Why Books Aren't Just about Shooting in the Dark--And a Writing Exercise to Prove It

The Beauty of Regular Writing Practice--Watching Your Book Grow

Why Book Writers Need to Hang Out Together

If You Dream It, They Will Publish It? An Exercise in Dreaming Your Book Cover

What's the "Me" in Memoir?--Avoiding Overwriting When You're Writing about Your Life

Freelance Writer Trying to Thrive? Read This!

Building a Solid Story--Moving to a Reader-Centric Viewpoint in Your Writing

My New Novel Is Coming Out--And I'm Trying to Breathe Deeply!

Common Sense Tips for Writers from Editor Adele Annesi

Key West Collage Exercise--Nonlinear Book Structuring Fun

Writing a Great Query Letter and Book Proposal

Book-Writing Intensive with Mary Carroll Moore--Next Weekend in Key West, Florida

Perspective in Your Writing--How Far Can You See?

Ken Atchity's Brilliant Book-Structuring Method

How to Create Writing Voice? Natalie Goldberg Says to Ask, What Brings You to Your Knees? What Do You Love with Your Whole Heart?

Show, Don't Tell--What Does That Really Mean?

Winter Writing--A Chance to Slow Way Down

Reverse Goal-Setting: Magic Action for Writers

New Year's Treat--A Presume Exercise for Writers