Search results for: “writers group”

  • The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, or How to Choose a Writers’ Group

    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…

  • Reader Bonus: 396 Books and Other Resources Writers Recommend

    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…

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Cultural Appropriation: A question for other writers

    The objective of writing science fiction, fantasy, (and fiction in general) is to explore the world of what could be, what should be, what should never be — to challenge your own assumptions, to discover, uncover, or invent new ways of thinking about life and new ways of seeing the world, humanity, and life, to…

  • The Forward Motion Writers’ Community

    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…

  • Writers’ Block: Losing (and Regaining) Writer’s Hunger

    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…

  • The Future of the Forward Motion Writers’ Community

    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…

  • Quoted in PublishersWeekly.Com

    Here’s the article. And here’s the full text of the interview I gave: 1) How do you use your website and other online sites (other people’s blogs, your publishers’ websites, etc.) to encourage people to read your work? I stick pretty close to home where promoting my work goes — what promotion I do, I…

  • GUESTBOOK #1

    Welcome to my guestbook. You are invited to leave comments here. I will read them as I’m able, and respond as I can. I cannot respond to all posts.

  • 2023-Secret-Early-Bird Big Class Confirmation

    Hi, and thank you for your interest in the upcoming BIG COURSE for Fiction Writers. Still not going to discuss subject matter on the course here… but you will discover what it is when I send out the first Class-Specific LAUNCH Email, and you can decide from that email whether you want to stick around…

  • Secret Big Class: Day 2

    Secret Big Class: Day 2

    Today’s objective was 1000 words on Ohio 4, and both starting and finishing Secret Writing Class Worksheet #1. It always amazes me how much harder it is to build a worksheet than to write the actual lesson it supports. It also amazes me that I forget this fact. I decided to do the worksheet before…