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MFA Programs: Good or Bad for Fiction?
Salon.com recently posted an article about the perennial debate concerning the value of MFA programs. (Click HERE to read the full story.) Mark McGurl claims the creative writing programs have resulted...
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Top 5 Tips to Starting a Writers’ Group
Running your own informal writing workshop can be a difficult but rewarding experience. It ain’t easy to get a group of people together who are promising writers AND critical readers, who are honest...
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The 12-Step Cure for Writer’s Block, Pt. 5: Use Writing Prompts
[This is an excerpt from a piece I wrote for The Creative Penn. Click that link to read all 12 steps!] Stuck in a writing rut? Are you sick of your own voice? Write ahead of yourself! Get out in front...
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10 perfectly normal struggles when writing a novel [infographic]
Do you agonize over your titles? Are your friends worried about you because you don’t emerge from your office for days? Are you constantly rewriting? Don’t worry – you’re not alone! Warren Adler, who...
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Are TV and Movies Killing the Written Word?
Will the coming generations receive most of their entertainment through visual means rather than through the written word, and will such a proliferation of narrative film/TV reduce the importance of...
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Am I Really An Author?
NaNoWriMo may be just the thing to turn you from a writer into an author. You just need to overcome the internal demons and distractions, turn on your creative writing motor, and get your story...
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Climbing Mount NaNoWriMo as a LiterarYeti
With the first week of NaNoWriMo behind us, our LiterarYeti mascot and social media coordinator share a progress update on their NaNoWriMo word count journey. When the BookBaby marketing team...
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Let Your Story Reveal Itself To You
Much of the joy and discovery of creative writing comes from the process itself. I’m finding inspiration and motivation from the very characters I’ve created. When I first decided to embark on this...
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Writing intriguing short stories
By BookBaby author Stephanie Norman Writing a short story may not take the same time and energy as writing a novel, but the shorter form provides its own challenges – notably crafting a meaningful read...
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The Key To Great Writing
By BookBaby author Dawn Field While there is no common definition of great, all great books have the common feature of lacking content that isn’t great. Great writing does not contain “un-great” stuff....
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Take Your “Self” Out of Your Fiction
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Some of the best fiction writing is inspired by personal experience, but putting too much of yourself in your writing can hurt your cause. Writers must be brave. A writer...
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A fun way to build your writing muscles
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Here is an entertaining way to push your writing muscles to the max while lounging on the couch or having fun with family and friends. We know we have to build our muscles...
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Focalization: Smart Writers Never Ignore It
By BookBaby author Rose Scott Writing is not just sitting, typing everything on your mind. Before you set out to your work, you ought to know a bit of theory, including the concept of focalization....
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The simple shapes of stories
By BookBaby author Dawn Field According to the inimitable Kurt Vonnegut, the shapes of stories can be mapped and graphed. Have you thought about the shape of the story in your book? Does your book have...
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21 Tips To Beat Writer’s Block [Infographic]
By BookBaby author Stephen Bennett A survey of 2,500 writers found that writer’s block was caused by high expectations, fear of failure, and unrealistic deadlines. Here are 21 ways to beat writer’s...
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Six Things You Need To Write A Book
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Don’t underestimate the commitment it will take to realize your story and write a book. Boil your project down to its core components to see your project through to the...
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How much physical description is enough when you create characters?
By BookBaby author Warren Adler When you create characters, how far should you go to individualize their physical descriptions? What is absolutely necessary for the depiction? One of the imponderables...
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Writing Phone Conversations to Forward Your Plot and Draw Your Characters
By BookBaby author Deena Nataf When writing phone conversations, does your one-sided dialogue give insight into the character of one or both participants or the relationship between them? Is the...
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We all write differently – what kind of writer are you?
By BookBaby author Dawn Field None of us come with manuals, you have to learn by trial and error and grow through experience to discover what kind of writer you are. Discovering who you are and how you...
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Preface your book!
By BookBaby author David Leonhardt Whether it’s a preface, an introduction, a foreword, or a prologue, the text that comes before your first chapter is important for setting the stage for your readers....
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