I’m very happy to post this guest essay by the curiously refreshing Amy Carey, author of numerous articles on parenting, fitness, travel, and health: I used to think writer’s block was a myth. Maybe writers got distracted or felt uninspired, but certainly they weren’t unable to write. Then, for several… Read more“Hating the essay I’m writing this minute”
Category: Guest Posts by Others
Featured authors on the subject of fiction writing.
Deadheart: Making Use of Discovery in Writing
I am very pleased to post this essay by my friend Lucia Orth, author of the 2008 critically-acclaimed Baby Jesus Pawn Shop: I came across some old notes in the past few weeks from an interview and the follow-up research I did while working on the early stages of my… Read more“Deadheart: Making Use of Discovery in Writing”
Writing in a second language
I’m happy to post this guest essay by the insightful Mark Budman, author of My Life at First Try: English is a second language for me. I learned it as an adult. The accident of birth and immigration is both a curse and a blessing, but “blessed is the one… Read more“Writing in a second language”
Fear Management for Storytellers
It’s Walsh Week here at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with the final Top 10 Blogs for Writers guest post, by Therese Walsh, author of The Last Will of Moira Leahy. Therese and her co-blogger Kathleen Bolton have established a reputation for themselves as The People to Know out here in… Read more“Fear Management for Storytellers”
10 Steps to Making Your Author Blog a Rockin’ Success
It’s Dunn Week at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with Judy Dunn of CatsEyeWriter. A fellow Top 10 Blogger for Writers, Judy teaches content marketing through her blog, coaching bloggers on how to get out there, stay out there and make it worth their while to be out there. And she… Read more“10 Steps to Making Your Author Blog a Rockin’ Success”
Self-Editing at the Story Level
It’s Brooks Week here at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with Larry Brooks of Storyfix. Larry is a critically-acclaimed bestselling author of four psychological thrillers and writing instructor, with his recent release Story Engineering: Understanding The Six Core Competencies of Successful Writing. His following on Storyfix is impressive—those guys gave him… Read more“Self-Editing at the Story Level”
4 Great Reasons You Shouldn’t Ditch Your Writing Blog
It’s Morales Week at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with Ollin Morales of {Courage 2 Create}. Ollin is another Top 10 Blogger for Writers, an aspiring novelist recording the progress of writing his first novel. He’s young, he’s passionate, he’s writing. And today he’s talking about the online writing community. GUEST… Read more“4 Great Reasons You Shouldn’t Ditch Your Writing Blog”
How to Break Up With Your Writing
It’s Formichelli Week on A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with a guest post from Linda Formichelli of the Renegade Writer Blog. I first met Linda two years ago when I was a member of an online critique group (scoping out the current state of peer critiquing among fiction writers—ye gods!) and… Read more“How to Break Up With Your Writing”
7 Ways to Attract Attention to Your Book Sales Page
It’s Penn Week at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with Joanna Penn from TheCreativePenn: Adventures in Writing, Publishing and Book Marketing, one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers. Joanna is the author and self-marketer of her self-published thriller, Pentacost. GUEST POST BY JOANNA PENN Writing and publishing your book is… Read more“7 Ways to Attract Attention to Your Book Sales Page”
Grammar, humor, and dangling your participles
I am very happy to post this guest essay by the highly successful writer Laverne Daley, thirty-year veteran of corporate copywriting and freelance journalism: The notion of grammar and humor first struck me when I was writing an earlier post on my site (Precision in Writing – Is That Word… Read more“Grammar, humor, and dangling your participles”