by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel There’s the old familiar saying, “Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?” In a similar fashion, many people wonder, “Which comes first, the proposal or the writing?” I’d like to be able to tell you a consistent answer, but the truth is that for some…

By Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales For the past two months, we’ve discussed spring cleaning our physical offices and our virtual offices. This month, let’s talk about how we can clean up our writing. Are you writing what you love? The first thing we need to do is to determine if we’re…

By Darlene L. Turner @darlenelturner A perfect bait increases a fisherman chances of catching a fish. They take their time and ease that wiggly worm onto the hook before lowering their line into the water. It’s just as important for a writer to do the same with a novel. Forget the…

By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam Over the past couple of years, I’ve had the delight in authors sharing their deadline dilemmas with me. Recently another one shared a couple new ones for my list. Yes, my list. Hey—we writers keep lists of great comments and ideas to use as fodder for…

by Ane Mulligan  @AneMulligan Being a novelist, I don’t usually work on more than one book at a time. However, I do write two blog posts, book reviews, and research for another novel while writing my current WIP (work in progress). But lately, the Lord whapped me upside the head…

by Julie Zine Coleman @JulieZColeman At a writer’s conference, a line of agents and publishers sat before the eager crowd for a question-and-answer session. What did writers want to know? As I listened, one woman’s question soon had me sitting straight up in my seat: What do agents and publishers…