By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Dear writer, do you pray for or prey on your readers? Pray and prey are homophones. These are words that sound alike but have different meanings and different spellings. But this isn’t about grammar until we consider pray and prey are verbs. So how do these…

by Vincent Davis @vbdavisII All writers start at the same place: heads swimming with thousands of plot points and hearts swelling at the thought of reaching thousands. It’s nearly impossible to walk through a church, a college campus, or your workplace without running into someone who claims to have the…

By Eva Marie Everson @EvaMarieEverson In the 1960s, Ivory soap produced a number of ads showing mother/daughter duos who looked so similar—or whose hands looked so young—the narrator tried to determine which was the mother and which was the daughter. Despite looking remarkably alike—and youthful—one, indeed was the mom and…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt With the plethora of writing how-to information available, have you ever found yourself emulating a person or style which isn’t a good fit for you? Sort of like a toddler walking around in his father’s shoes or a warrior wearing someone else’s armor. As I…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky As an editor for The Citron Review, a common trend were great stories with mediocre titles. I don’t blame writers for struggling with this. It can be tricky. Here’s some quick thoughts on how to elevate the quality of your title for your fiction. [tweet_box design="default"…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 My adventures in blogging began at one of my favorite places on earth—the Blue Ridge conference. I sat nervously in James Rubart’s marketing class and raised my hand. He needed a guinea pig, someone who wanted to set up a blog in class as an example.…