by Jill Williamson | May 20, 2020 | poetry, The Craft of Writing, Writing
Today we are continuing our talk on prosody, or sound, in poetry. While many poems rhyme, they don’t all rhyme in the same way. Take the following excerpts of famous poems, for example. In all honesty, posting only the first verse of these poems isn’t fair, since...
by Shannon Dittemore | May 15, 2020 | Author Life, Brainstorming, Mailbag, Story Ideas, Writing, Writing Life
Happy Friday, friends! Today, we’re answering a question that showed up in our mailbag. You know you can send us questions, right? There’s a form just for that purpose right at the bottom of our homepage. Feel free to drop us a line and, if we’re...
by Jill Williamson | May 13, 2020 | Creativity, poetry, The Craft of Writing, Writing
Over the 2019-2020 winter break, I studied hard to pass a test that would give me an endorsement for teaching English and Humanities in middle school. One thing I had to study a lot of that I previously knew almost nothing about was poetry. Since we have rarely talked...
by Shannon Dittemore | May 8, 2020 | Getting Published, Marketing, Writing, Writing As A Business
What is a tagline, does my book need one, and how do I craft something that hits on all the right notes? These are the questions we’re going to answer today, and I’m going to do that by sharing some of the taglines I found on my shelf, and by giving you a...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 4, 2020 | Writing, Writing Contests
I’m super excited to announce that another 100-word contest starts (and ends!) today! Here’s how these contests work: Your entry is the prompt sentence + 100 words. The prompt for this contest is: Seeing an unfamiliar vehicle pull into the driveway next door filled me...
by Shannon Dittemore | May 1, 2020 | Author Life, Reading, Writing, Writing Life
This week there’s been some buzz in the online book community. Especially in the YA sector where an author who’s been fairly quiet for a while jumped back into the thick of things. Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight Saga, posted a countdown on her...
