I'm also reading — slowly — a couple
of writing craft books, which I'll probably talk about on this blog at a later date.
To continue that theme, this week I'm brushing up
on writing craft skills I acquired last year.
Our instructors are highly - experienced, published authors, and world class experts
in writing craft and online marketing for authors.
There are perfectly free or inexpensive libraries of information available on
writing craft as it is.
I don't really sell my crafts, but I do
write a craft blog and produce projects specifically for my blog.
I get so caught up buying story books that I keep forgetting to get a few
good writing craft books, haha.
But what about the ten years of critique groups, ten years of
reading writing craft books, ten years of writers conferences.
This one was also hard to market traditionally, as there aren't many traditional publishers who
do writing craft books.
I've finally accepted that I blog about writing because I love
teaching writing craft, and it's about time I accept that as part of my brand.
I'm a big believer in
studying writing craft, knowing the tools and methods, but tailoring the process to fit my specific needs.
When we first start writing, we often learn lots of new «rules,» which can narrow our focus onto
writing craft so much that we lose sight of storytelling.
The books in this set put
writing craft techniques into plain language alongside examples, so you can see how it all looks in practice, and combines it with practical exercises.
Fiction writers can also blog about writing tips, their process, and
other writing craft topics.
Some of the topics they'd like guest bloggers to cover
include writing craft, marketing, social networking, inspiration, creative writing, and finding an agent.
Many a time
writing craft assignment seems to be an easy task, but it requires a lot of reading, understanding, and knowledge on the topic.
Lifetime learning is one of my own holding patterns, and reading the
latest writing craft and technical books is part of that passion and drive.
I teach six different
writing craft courses and each course is loaded with dozens of Deep Editing techniques that teach writers how to add power to their writing.
My idea was to provide an intimate and professional setting for great
writing craft teachers to share their expertise and interact with their attendees.
My goal
when writing craft books is to make the techniques accessible to any writer (or reader) in as easy and straight forward a manner as possible.
If we're taking the traditional publishing path,
quality writing craft makes it more likely an agent will request our pages.
Even novels from the 1990's might be too old - fashioned in terms of style to be of benefit in terms of their
technical writing craft.
Once we understand internal dialogue as a reaction to a stimulus, it can help us conquer three other
writing craft challenges.
Other times we know that aspect of
writing craft exists, but we don't realize that it's not a strength of ours.
Though she passed away in 2001, three works on
writing craft emerged from her nearly five decades of experience publishing novels, short stories and essays.
You're not going to learn much
about writing craft if you don't continually work to take on new, difficult challenges.
Our instructors are renowned, highly - experienced, published authors, and world class experts
in writing craft and online marketing, specifically for authors.
Improving writing craft and self publishing, key skills for a modern writer, are the two main tracks at this conference.
You have to provide some valuable content that will be interesting to the blog's readers: an article
on writing craft, or your publishing journey, or some aspect of your book.
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