For years, I’ve been holding my husband and son captive over the dinner table as I wave my hands and rant and rave about fiction, writing, publishing, all the many and wonderful intricacies of this extraordinary art and craft. For years. Recently, I’ve been interviewed online in a number of… Read more“Debuting on video—A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, interviewed by Joanna Penn”
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Dying of envy—the Elizabeth Craig mystery interview
Elizabeth Spann Craig is well-known in the online writing community for her Writers Knowledge Base—the Search Engine for Writers, where she maintains links to all the best posts on writing online, and her weekly Twitterific post, rounding up the weeks’ exchange of writing posts through Twitter on her blog, Mystery… Read more“<em>Dying of envy</em>—the Elizabeth Craig mystery interview”
Grammar expose—using ‘they’ for third-person singular
I don’t usually futz around with grammar issues here, but this one came up and it’s kind of an exception, so I’m going to give you a little grammar lesson today. You all know me well enough to know I don’t make too many grammatical howlers, and you probably also… Read more“Grammar expose—using ‘they’ for third-person singular”
Mining Yourself: guest post on Catherine, Caffeinated
Today I’m guest posting for Catherine Ryan Howard with an excerpt from The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual. Don’t you ever wonder where to find the stuff of great fiction? Please join us for Mining Yourself.
3 Things You Need to Know About the New Publishing Industry
One day some years ago, my friend Roz Morris over on Nail Your Novel was talking about an issue that’s extremely important to writers breaking into the industry these days: advice on revision. I started to throw in my two cents in a comment and realized quickly that there was… Read more“3 Things You Need to Know About the New Publishing Industry”
Collaboration Between Writing & Music—the Porter Anderson interview
Porter Anderson of Porter Anderson Media is a Fellow with the National Critics Institute, a producer and consultant formerly with the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome and INDEX: Design to Improve Life in Copenhagen. He’s worked in journalism throughout the changes of recent decades at the network of… Read more“<em>Collaboration Between Writing & Music</em>—the Porter Anderson interview”
Rethinking Motivation for Character Arc: guest post on Writer Unboxed
You all know about Writer Unboxed, right? Where Therese Walsh and Kathleen Bolton unleash every day the awesome power of the writers’ mentoring community upon aspiring writers of the world? Where I was hosted last winter with 3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction, while Therese appeared here with her wonderful… Read more“Rethinking Motivation for Character Arc: guest post on Writer Unboxed”
A glass-half-full attitude—the Joanna Penn interview
Joanna Penn owns The Creative Penn blog, where she teaches everything from how to take a self-published book to market to what to do with it once it’s there. Last winter, as part of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers exchange, she and I traded guests posts, her 7 Ways… Read more“<em>A glass-half-full attitude</em>—the Joanna Penn interview”
Searching for Entertainment-Industry Intelligence: guest post on Storyfix
Hey, everyone! Larry Brooks is hosting me today over on Storyfix with an excerpt from The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow. Oh, boy! Do you know what SETI stands for? What the National Academy of Sciences’ Science & Entertainment Exchange… Read more“Searching for Entertainment-Industry Intelligence: guest post on Storyfix”
Feelin’ groovy—the Katie Weiland interview
Last winter when I was trading guest posts with the other Top 10 Blogs for Writers, K.M. Weiland and I swapped posts on 5 Writing Rules Your Should Break and The 4 Most Common Mistakes Fiction Editors See. She’s been extremely busy since then, as I’ve discovered, and now she’s… Read more“<em>Feelin’ groovy</em>—the Katie Weiland interview”