We welcome back guest blogger Kathy Weyer as she continues to share her thoughts on the peculiar life of a writer. Check out her prior post: Create Writing Time. Got balance? Working at home is an isolating process. The silence is golden for getting that story down and finding the right word for a tense …
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Screenwriter Tips for Novelists: Writing Dialogue
As a screenwriter, I had no choice but to learn a thing or fifty about writing dialogue. Scripts are 50% dialogue. The other half is physical action. That’s it. There are no other ways to express the story in a screenplay – no inner monologues, no poetic descriptions, and no narrated explanations. Only dialogue and …
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Friday Inspiration: The Seven Year Itch and New Beginnings
Ever see that old movie, THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH? Of course this phrase has become a cliché and even though it is based somewhat on research, it serves to remind us that change is good and boredom is the death knoll of our existence. At least it is for me. Being an Aquarian, I’m particularly …
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Done! We Survived the A-Z Blog Challenge
Phew! We did it! The 2014 A-Z Blog Challenge is completed! What a trip! This was our first year, as we debuted our blog in August. When we started blogging we were incredibly insecure—check out Robin’s first post! What if we write something stupid? What if there’s a typo? A grammar error? But we held …
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Zippos, Zippers and Zeppelins, oh my! Trademark Tips for Writers
You’re typing, and you stop for a moment to pick your soda can. It’s chilled, and the caffeine is just what you needed. Before you know it your soda can, complete with it’s internationally recognized brand name, morphs from the reality of your tabletop into the fictional hands of your character. And just that quick …
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The Yeti Inside My Brain!
She sneaks up on me. A snarl freezes me, my fingers dance between the send and delete keys. The caustic drip of saliva trickles over my shoulder, splashing down on my keyboard in icy pools. She perches next to me, urging me to backspace my wretched pages into oblivion. It’s the yeti inside my brain! …
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X-Rated: Should YA Books Have a Rating System?
Earlier this month I wrote a post called “Dropping the F-Bomb in YA Lit” and cited a study done by Brigham Young University that counted the number of swear words in bestselling YA novels. The results? There is cursing in most YA books. This sparked outrage from some and a nod to reality from others. …
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Sandra Carey Cody on Writing Mysteries & Author Responsibility
Welcome our new guest blogger, Sandra Carey Cody, author of the Jennie Connors mystery series. We’re thrilled to have her join us and are huge fans of her blog, Birth of a Novel. Why do I Write Mysteries? One of the clichés of writing is write what you know. Good advice, but I think even …
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What We’re Reading: “W” is for Wicked
Here at the Writeonsisters, the last Saturday of the month is always What We’re Reading. This month it also happens to be “W” day of The A to Z Blog Challenge. There are many book themes we could have picked that start with W (writing, whodunit, war, etc.), but we chose “wicked.” I guess we’re …
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Friday Inspirations: V is for Vicariously Living Through Books
There’s a well-known line from George R.R. Martin’s book A Dance With Dragons: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.” Truth! With that in mind, here’s 9 Vicarious Lives I’ve lived thanks to books… I traveled the galaxy with a towel. (Hitchhiker’s Guide …
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