by Alycia W. Morales     @AlyciaMorales As conference season approaches, preparations loom around the corner. Now is not the time to procrastinate. Now is the time to prepare for those fifteen-minute appointments, pitches, cramming all that class material into your brain, and networking with other writers, agents, and editors. [tweet_box design="default"…

by Bethany Jett, @BetJett When we’re writing a novel or nonfiction book, article, or blog post, we have one audience in mind: Our own. Yet the rules change when it comes to certain social media platforms…ahem, Twitter and Facebook. With those platforms, we need to consider what our audience’s audience…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writing killer emotions means the writer understands a character’s unique temperament, wants, needs, flaws, desires, goals, challenges, and backstory. With these traits, a writer fills the pages with the character’s deepest of feelings. Experts state that up to 90% of communication is nonverbal. Character driven body…

by Alycia W. Morales     @AlyciaMorales Word count is tremendously important in today's publishing world, especially since readers have shorter attention spans than back when reading was one of the few forms of entertainment available at home. What is one to do when the word count of their latest creation is…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson I’ve spoken with a lot of writers who have trouble disconnecting their INTERNAL EDITOR when they're working on an early draft of a manuscript. This overly helpful person lives inside most of us and comes in handy when we’re putting the finishing touches on our manuscript.…

Four years ago, I sat in Marti Pieper’s ghostwriting class at the Florida Christian Writers Conference, soaking in everything I could. How fun to write books for other people…and get paid for it! The pump was primed. Last year, when my agent presented me with an opportunity to collaborate with…