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An Interview by Deborah L. Brewer Every story, if it is to be a compelling read, needs conflict and obstacles for its protagonists to overcome […]

By AJ Metzger I’ll admit I planned for the past 3 years to participate in NaNoWriMo and each year I started strongish but all the […]

By Monique Bos I’ll never forget the first Stephen King book I read: Pet Sematary.  I was sixteen, and at the religious high school I […]

By Trista Herring Baughman Hello, Dear Readers,  Spooky Season is my favorite season–the (sometimes) cooler weather, the fresh, crisp air, the smell of bonfires and […]

Hello, Dear Readers, I’ve taken several writing classes recently. A lot of them cover the same topics in similar ways. But just when I think […]

An Interview by Deborah L. Brewer A debut novel, like other firsts, requires the mastery of various skills along a steep learning curve, including language, […]

By Laura Hayden “To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.” Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) Webster defines humor as “that which is comical or amusing.”  […]

By Deborah L Brewer “…kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” Thus, Stephen King […]

By Monique Bos One of my fiction teachers observed a strict “rule of three” about descriptions. Writers, he believed, should provide three—no more and no […]

By Catherine Dilts Gems I gleaned from workshops I attended at the 2024 Pikes Peak Writers Conference. It’s impossible to capture all I learned at […]