by Sherri Burr
What do President Abraham Lincoln, actor James Dean, and business mogul Howard Hughes have in common? If you guessed that they all died without wills, you would be correct. In any given year,
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On Making Legal Writing More Interesting
by Bentley Clark
I get paid to write. There is much jet-setting and hob-nobbing. I wear pearls and go to fancy, fancy parties. I pluck fascinating characters from the ether and build exquisite worlds around them.
Nah.
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An Interview with Author S.S. Bazinet
After years of writer’s block, S.S. Bazinet gave in to her creative muse and has been passionately writing ever since. She is the author of the visionary fantasy series The Vampire Reclamation Project. She has also published two other fantasy books,
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Trimming the Fat (aka Expendable Scenes) in Your Novel
by Lorena Hughes
I don’t blame you if you don’t want to read this post. Revisions can be dreadful, overwhelming, confusing and frustrating for many writers, and the idea of doing them (or reading about them) may sound as fun and exciting as standing in line at an airport security check point.
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Revising Fiction: 13 Ways to Show Character Emotions, Part 1
by Kirt Hickman
In some ways, the telling of emotions is easier to identify than other forms of tell. Simply look for the name of any emotion:
He felt defensive.
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One Writer’s Journey: To Not Write Crap
by A.R. Aeby
I’ve never aimed to write the great American novel or an award-winning new classic or, dare I even say, a New York Times bestseller. My goal as an author has always been to not write crap.
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SWW Bimonthly Contest Call for Submissions
After taking a two-year break, SouthWest Writers is restarting its popular Bimonthly Writing Contest with a call for one-page poems on any subject. The entry fee is $10.00. Prizes for First, Second, and Third Place will be awarded for each bimonthly topic,
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The Late-Blooming Writer
by Olive Balla
You’re over fifty, your kids are raised, your relationships are simple, you’ve learned most of life’s lessons firsthand, and now you want to write. Welcome. Welcome to the ranks of Late-Blooming Writers. As one of the aforementioned,
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Grammatically Correct: Me, Myself, and I
by Dodici Azpadu
The personal pronouns, I and me are frequently used incorrectly because writers do not remember the rules for case. Case is the grammatical functions pronouns have in sentences.
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There’s No Such Thing as a True Story
by Joycelyn Campbell
Autobiographical memory is a factor in almost every genre of writing, including fiction, memoir, poetry, history, and journalism. So it’s important to understand how autobiographical memory actually works and how reliable it is—or isn’t.
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