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I know I’m not in the majority when I recommend that you get involved with a writers’ group. Dean Koontz apparently loathes them, Harlan Ellison despises them, and I’ve read advice from dozens of other pros whose work I love and whose opinions I value who say writers’ groups will do everything from steal your… Continue reading The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, or How to Choose a Writers’ Group

I used to have a lot of fun with the folks on my list back when I only sent emails to one group of people. Well, I’m back to just mailing to one group of people. So I’m saying it’s time to have some fun again. This is what my list guys and I built… Continue reading Reader Bonus: 396 Books and Other Resources Writers Recommend

I created and for about half a dozen years I ran a free online writers community called Forward Motion. I don’t anymore, but Forward Motion is huge, growing, still free, and still wonderful. It’s now owned and run by my friend Lazette Gifford. Check it out. Main Community Discussion Board Community Directory What Is Forward… Continue reading The Forward Motion Writers’ Community

At the heart and soul of writing is the desire to write. And your relationship with writing, like all other relationships, can atrophy from the day-to-day wear of disappointment, from lack of support, from lack of feedback, from lack of incentive, from just plain exhaustion, and from a thousand other things. It can be as… Continue reading Writers’ Block: Losing (and Regaining) Writer’s Hunger

Note: I created the Forward Motion Writers’ Community in its first iteration back in late 1997 or early 1998, and was both its administrator and a very active participant for about five years. That has changed. The following is my letter to the community, posted Nov. 13th, 2003. There’s a scene in Talyn where Talyn… Continue reading The Future of the Forward Motion Writers’ Community