Top Awards for Crime Fiction Writers
…Mystery Writers of America in New York City. Both publishers and writers can submit stories for consideration. Committees select nominees and winners for nine award categories: Best Novel, Best First…
Search Results for: developing themes in your stories
Four Ways to Protect Your Creative Brain
…Social media. Industry gossip. All of that content shapes us, and bleeds out into the stories we tell. There are so many articles out there about how to tell a…
#5onFri: Five Tips for Writing Multi-POV Stories
As a writer, it’s tempting to want to test out new styles and approaches to storytelling. One such is writing multiple points of view—where instead of one character’s voice telling…
Deep Dive into Short Forms: Novelettes and Novellas
…of the following stories: “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Truman Capote “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley “Home” by Toni Morrison “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur…
Episode 141: From Short Stories to Novels — Interview with Susan Perabo
…the novel, The Broken Places. Her fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and New Stories from the South, and has appeared in numerous magazines,…
Food and Natural Disaster: How to Ignite Tension in Your Story
…counties. Journalists were telling people to call and wake up their friends and families. My own friends were posting evacuation stories with their neighbors staying behind with hoses in hand,…
Writer Fuel: Why You Should Use Story Marketing in Your Author Platform
…writers, we can also do the same with our author platforms, using stories to connect with our readers. Now, I don’t need to sell you on the idea that stories…
How to Find Your Writing Purpose
…jumps out at you? What connections can you make? Start a list of those themes. The next step is seeing if your themes overlap. Organize them in columns or bubbles…
Episode 46: BEA Recap and Publishing Industry Trends
…industry is going, and then connecting with the people that I wanted to meet. Overall, two main themes stood out to me at BEA this year: Identity and Community. During…
Interview with Ausma Zehanat Khan
…way of telling those stories—I hope with immediacy and relevance. I’ve been writing fiction all my life—stories, songs, plays, poems. I was the newspaper editor at my high school and…
