On October 23rd, I’ll be taking part in an event in Halifax called the Writing Rumble. It’s a five-hour writing relay event during which two teams of six Nova Scotian writers compete to “chain-write” a short story, each of us writing up to 350 words before passing it on to the next author to try… Continue reading Writing Rumble| Tim Covell
Cozy mysteries as a sub-genre, and some details about the various types of editing services for your manuscript.| Claudette | Writer of Words etc
Recently I read a book where the flow of the story was chopped off in the jump from chapter one to chapter two. I’ve also read books where the flow was interrupted from one sentence to the next, or…| Shannon Donnelly's Fresh Ink
I’m excited to announce that I’m writing a new book for O’Reilly:Follow the Money: Understanding the Financial Architecture of Software. This is a project that’s been quietl…| zwischenzugs
A great deal of my professional life involves writing, so the prospect of copyedits on a book manuscript conjures a special kind of fear and loathing. I’m also a writing instructor, of both fiction…| The Patron Saint of Superheroes
I’ve been reading some contest entries of late, and one thing that struck me is that I don’t see the point of the story emerging right away to hook me into the story. Theme is the point…| Shannon Donnelly's Fresh Ink
Steve and I get asked a lot about how we use Scrivener to write our books. And it all starts with the research and outlining phases. I’m going to focus mainly on how I use Scrivener to outline a non-fiction book, but if you want to see how Steve uses Scrivener to outline his novels, […]| Author Basics