Roadtrippers Writing Coach Rob Lewis on appealing to the heart before the brain.
I am lucky to be married to a stellar woman. But it wasn’t luck that brought us together.
I lived in CT and Tammy in Chicago. Her sister, who lived in NY and played bass for a musical group I sang...
Querying an agent can be exhausting and terrifying. There are a multitude of ways to query an agent, ranging from writers’ conferences to emailing a submission. But there is another way to query that is not as well-known: Twitter pitch events.
Twitter pitch events are a virtual opportunity...
Didn’t you hear? Humans have the attention span of a goldfish.
The statement may be a stretch (even though Ted Lasso made us all believe it’s an immutable truth!), but the idea behind it isn’t. The attention span of a human is short.
You may wonder how a person’s short...
Today is November 1st, and do you know what that means?
We’re beginning NaNoWriMo!
If you’re not familiar with National November Writing Month, it’s a global challenge to write a 50K novel throughout the span of November. It’s typically used as a means to...
by Melissa Parks
I thought I wasn’t a writer.
Sure, I earned a bachelors and masters in English and learned how to impress professors with lengthy sentences stuffed with semi-colons and fancy, sesquipedalian words. I even worked for a publishing company, where I was surrounded by...
