Visualize Your Writing Goals for This Year
Visualizing your writing goals for this year sounds like it may not be terribly helpful, but it can help make the difference …
Switching Gears With Your Writing
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins Have you ever decided to take your writing (or blogging) in a different direction? So many of us …
Sometimes Not Giving Up is the Only Option You Have
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins Writers are a funny bunch. They spend a lot of time writing, or occasionally they spend almost no …
Practice Makes Perfect (Or Sometimes, Just Better)
By: Tia Love An old adage, those words still ring true today, and they apply to almost anything we do. If you …
What Really Makes an Author an “Author?”
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins In the face of the perceived ease on indie publishing, many more people are suddenly becoming “authors.” Some …
Black Writers Don’t Just Write About Race
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins Why does race often come into the picture for Black writers? This is a complicated question. Part of …
Finding Your “Author Voice” (It’s Harder Than it Looks)
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins Just like any modern artist, a writer can have a certain “voice” that distinguishes them from their contemporaries. …
Wait…what? Tropes All Over
By: Aryanne Ferguson There’s an entire website dedicated to tropes! Check it out here. In case you didn’t click the link, tropes …
Sometimes, You Have to Give Your Characters the Axe
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins When you take ten years to produce a novel, it’s unlikely that the end result looks anything like …
Reflecting on Words and What They Mean to Me
By: Tia Love My biggest resolution for 2015 is to conquer Amazon’s list of 100 Books Everyone Should Read. The first book …