Sitemap - 2012 - Your Weekly Writing Exercise

Writing a Series Mystery--Tips from Just-Published Author Steve George

Why Creativity Matters--Storytelling Is Good for Your Brain and Your Whole Self

A Writer's Revision Checklist--How to Make Sure You've Covered All the Bases before You Send Out Your Manuscript

What Dialogue Can Do for Your Stories--And What It Should Never Try to Do

Endings and Beginnings--Finding the Reader-Satisfying "Loops" in Your Story

Making a Soundtrack for Your Book: How Music and Images Help Free the Nonverbal Creative Brain

From Fake Memoirs to True-Life Novels--The New Trends in Publishing Genres

How to Write Every Day--The Benefits of Even Fifteen Minutes a Day on Your Writing and Why Nanowrimo Is So Popular

Boost Your Writing Energy with Cool Resources for Writing Inspiration--Presentations, Prompts, and Paris

Location, Location, Location--Expanding Setting for Your Story into a Larger "Container

Time and Location--Working with Flashbacks, Backstory, Chronology, and Transitions in Novels, Memoirs, and Nonfiction Books

Staying in the Room with the Writing--How to Keep Yourself from Getting Blocked, Distracted, or Stopping Altogether

Self-Publishing:--Is It for You? Four Writers Share Their Experiences with Releasing Their Own Books

Reading Your Work Aloud--Whether You're Sharing with a Group, a Big Audience, or Just Yourself, Some Tips on Why Reading Aloud Helps You

Plotting--How to Go from Predictable to Perfection in Your Storyline

Dialogue Decisions--How to Choose When to Use Dialogue (and What Kind) in Your Fiction and Nonfiction Writing

Protecting Your Work--What You Need to Know about Making Sure Your Writing Stays Yours

Vertical and Horizontal Writing--What They Are, How to Write Them, and Why Each Brings Interest to Your Story

Finding the Inner Story of Your Book--Behind the Outer Drama, What's the Real Meaning?

What's the Mission of Your Book? Getting to the Core of Your Story--through Your Own Uniqueness as a Creative Person

Organizing Your Writing Life--Cool Systems, Structures, and Navigation Tools That Professional Writers Use When Writing a Book

Structure--Why It Might Be the Missing Element to Make Your Writing Sing (and How to Balance It with Passion)

How to Make Your Writing More Vivid by Putting the Reader in the Picture: Showing, Not Telling

Three Writers, Three Writing Journeys--How Three First-Time Book Authors Found Their Way to Publishing

When Nothing Is Happening . . .Why We Shy Away from Writing Good Conflict and What We Can Do about It

Get Real: How to Stop Dreaming about Your Writing and Actually Do It

What Are You Really Writing About? How the First Essential Revision Tool--Content Analysis--Makes Your Book Engaging to the Reader

Going beyond Critique: Structuring Feedback to Best Help Your Writing

Listening with Your Whole Self: Writing from Both Sides of the Brain

Simple Cures to Writer's Block: Fresh Writing and the Brainstorming List of Ideas

A Letter to Your Inner Critic--How to Stop the Invisible Sabotage to Your Creativity

Benefits of a Regular Writing Practice for Book Writers--How to Fit Writing a Book into Your Over-the-Top-Busy Life

Summer and Fall Workshop Retreats: "Creative Process: How to Plan, Write, and Develop a Book and Take It to Publication!"

Benefits of a Regular Writing Practice for Book Writers--How to Fit Writing a Book into Your Over-the-Top-Busy Life

Five Fundamental Practices That Professional Writers Lean On

Imagination and Being Stuck--New Brain Facts for Writers

Making Lists: A Way to Find Land When You Feel out to Sea with Your Manuscript

Stepping-Stones to Publishing: The Pros and Cons of Self-Publishing

How Do You Finally Get Your Book Finished (and Published)? Passion and Determination--An Interview with New Author, Atina Diffley

The Timeline of a Book Project--How Long It Can Take, What to Do at Each Stage

How a Writing Partner--or a Writers' Group--Can Help You Finish Your Book

A Cure for Writer's Block: Value Writing--A Surprise Post by One of Mary's Editors

A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future

Making a Map of Your Book's Structure--Three Different Kinds of Storyboards

Creating the Image Arc for Your Book

Drawing Solutions--How Visual Maps Help Your Book-Writing Dreams Come True

Working with Images to Get More Emotion into Your Chapters

Pros and Cons of First and Third Person Point of View

From Event to Emotion--How Do You Bridge the Gap in Your Writing?