Author Shanna Swendson shares an article on the craft of writing every other week. Learn about characterization, story structure, idea generation and more.
This will be the last "writing post" of the year, and instead of writing a post, I've put together a PDF e-book of all the writing posts since I started doing
The Internet was really buzzing last week with the announcement that Harlequin, a well-established major publisher, would be starting a vanity publishing
I learn a lot about writing from watching TV. Most of the time, it's from things that are done well -- if I fall in love with characters or find certain plots
From my regular excursions around the Internet and from the way I see the book industry portrayed on TV, I get the impression that there are a lot of false
When I made my last writing post about planning your publicity efforts, I got some questions about what kind of things a writer might do about publicity. So,