Sweet Success Archive

By: Trista Herring Baughman Countdown to the most spectacular time of the year-the Spooky Season crowning moment-has begun.  If I’m honest, it started last year […]

By: Benjamin X. Wretlind For 20 years or so, I studied the atmosphere and forecasted the weather. While I spent a vast majority of my […]

By: Margena Holmes When I brought up the idea for this blog to the editor, she was all for it, saying, “Maybe it will motivate […]

By; Donna Schlachter (previously published in Writing Nuggets of Gold) There are two kinds of deadlines. In the writing world, there are two kinds of […]

By: Terry Odell I recently read a blog with a firm stance on how to deal with body parts. I don’t entirely agree. I don’t […]

By Donna Schlachter It seems there is never enough time to do all the things I want to do. With seven days in a week, […]

There is more to proofing a book than just reading the story. By: Darby Karchut At some point in every writer’s career, you’ll be asked […]

Time Warps. Misplaced Modifiers. By; Terry Odell You don’t have to read science fiction to run into a time warp. At the very first writer’s […]

By Leeann Betts (excerpt from Nuggets of Writing Gold) I keep promising myself that one of these years, I’m going to enjoy summer. Instead of […]

By: John B. Roberts, II Surf camp in Costa Rica is a funny place to realize you need a co-author. I was unsuccessfully trying to […]

Need some inspiration? Have coffee with Leeann Betts as she shares how she is inspired at her local coffee shop.

By Christina Lorenzen Most writers spend hours every day on social media, whether Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Spending so much time, one would think social […]

Make a Social Media Presence – Margena Holmes guides you through the maze of social media.

By: Leeann Betts. Without considering genre, time period, or elevator pitch, ask yourself, “What do I write?”

By: Terry Odell When we’re writing, we want the reader to keep turning pages. There are lots of ways to do this. Donald Maass speaks […]

This week we have two articles that take a look at Post-Conference. The first from Kim Krisco shares his thoughts on his first conference experience, […]

Writing a book rarely happens in a vacuum. We get an idea, a nugget of dialog, perhaps a snippet of setting, maybe even a title, […]

By: Terry Odell As writers, we’re encouraged to include all five senses in our writing. Most of us are guilty of relying too heavily on […]

Facebook bought Instagram for a cool $1 billion, and put its juggernaut of an advertising platform behind it. For that reason alone, it’s worth a […]

By: K.J. Scrim No matter where you are in your writing career you should attend at least one writing conference every year. For every writer […]

Cover Design and Self Publishing By Donna Schlachter Cover Design Research tells us we have less than five seconds to capture our reader’s attention, and […]

By: Kathie Scrimgeour With PPW’s new anthology, FRESH STARTS, publishing today it seemed appropriate to talk a little about anthologies. Back in August I wrote a […]

By: Jenny Kate Clubhouse is the hottest social media outlet on the internet right now.But how familiar with it are you? Is it right for […]

By: Terry Odell Whether you’re traditionally published, indie published, or working on getting published, you want to present the best possible reading experience. I edit […]

Self-Editing By Donna Schlachter Okay, you’re getting close to the end of writing your book. You’ve checked the character arcs, the plot lines, sub-plots are […]