By Trista Herring Baughman You have a great story idea. Or you’ve started a book, but you’re stuck. Now what? How can you go from a seedling of a story to a fully branched, deeply rooted one? If you’re a panster, you’ll likely begin by sitting down to write. If […]
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Congratulations to Gwynne Stanker on her recent short story release: Night of the Cheetah (Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine) ABOUT THE STORY Eleven-year-old American Asia Jefferson’s plane crashes on the South African savannah. She is the sole survivor. She overcomes encounters with vultures, hyenas, and cheetahs only because a local tribesman […]
Congratulations to Fleur Bradley! Her middle-grade short story The Ghost of Bigfoot, set in Rocky Mountain National Park, recently released in the National Park-themed anthology S’More Spooky Stories, published by Owl Hollow Press. ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY S’More Spooky Stories is a collection of family-friendly spooky tales set in US national parks, […]
by Deborah Brewer Why are people like Stephen King so sure writers need to be readers too? He said, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: Read a lot and write a lot.” But life is busy, so busy that for many […]
Well, dear wordsmiths, January seemed like a long year, yet super fast in some aspects. It’s already February! Can you believe it? PPW’s Conference is coming up in May. Get ready for 2.5 days of amazing workshops and keynote speakers! Join us for Write Drunk, Edit Sober, get a snazzy […]
by Deborah L. Brewer It’s January again, and like many of you, I’m planning for a productive writing year. Part of that planning is to consider what might impede my progress and strategize ahead of it. A lack of time? Schedule writing on the calendar. A lack of energy? Cut […]
Part 1 – A Chat with Aaron Reynolds Children’s literature is a genre that is dear to my heart, as I’m sure it is to many of yours. It’s a varied genre, including books, magazines, poems, and stories created especially for children. Modern kid-lit is classified by either genre or […]