Writing Tips
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Critique Partners Versus Beta Readers
No matter what I’m writing, feedback in invaluable. I request feedback at different stages of working on my novel manuscripts. CRITIQUE PARTNERS I have been so lucky to have belonged to an online critique group for well over fifteen years. We started after finding one another on a writing website where folks could sign up
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What I Learned Writing My Debut Domestic Suspense Novel
When I first embarked on writing my debut domestic suspense novel, I toyed with ideas for books in other genres, but nothing grabbed me enough to actually start creating a draft. I have always read a wide variety of genres including suspense, thriller, horror, cozy mystery, romance, generational drama, light fantasy and some sci-fi so
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Sometimes You Just Don’t Want To Write
Have you ever been rolling along churning out words and then, out of nowhere, when you sit down to your next writing session, you find yourself procrastinating and using almost anything else to avoid putting words down on the page? Whether you’ve had a book (or several) published, or you’re writing your first, when I