Every writer, especially one who has recently finished a long piece of work, confesses to felling a kind of creative exhaustion. A pretty significant fraction of writers also go on to describe what may be only be named writer’s block, where they are unable to get words on a page. Very often, writer’s block creates…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: 6 Tips on a Successful Public Reading.
For a lot of writers, the idea of public speaking is terrifying. They are a lot more comfortable with being behind the scenes, writing and editing. But there are many advantages to reading your own work out loud to receptive strangers. You get to engage with an audience, your work is heard, and you might…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: Writing the Ending
For a lot of people, crafting conclusions is the hardest part of writing. Writers from all genres find endings harder to write than any other part of the work, and the dread is entirely understandable. After all, the conclusion is our last point of contact with the reader, and as writers, we strive to make…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: An Interview with Melanie Gideon
Melanie Gideon’s A Slippery Year is one of my personal favorite memoirs. It also stayed on the New York Times’ top ten best-seller list for many weeks, and received rave reviews from NPR, NY Post, San Francisco Chronicle, New Yorker’s Book Bench, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Magazine, Elle, Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage and others. I…
Read MoreHub quality trends – working our way up
HubPages is an open publishing platform, meaning that we allow Hubs on a wide range of topics to be published. People new to the site can also enjoy the gratification of being able to share their Hubs with others and receive feedback almost immediately after publishing. For the past few years, the HubPages staff (yep,…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: How to Research Your Writing
One of the hardest things about writing is research. Beyond creating polished writing, you also want to make sure that you know what you are writing about. And this can be hard work. Sometimes the research is simple. If you are writing about a recipe, all you have to do is cook the meal again…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: Choosing a Writing Conference
With fall around the corner, we’ve just seen the end of writing conference season. Many of you are returning from Florida, Massachussets, Portland and other places, with your manuscripts in your bag and with copious notes on how to improve your writing. But not everyone thrives at writing conferences, and ever so often an aspiring…
Read MoreOn Writing Well – Managing Your Writing Life
There are so many people that I meet every day, who, having heard that I’ve finished a novel look at me sorrowfully. “I wish I could do that,” they say to me, “but between work, housework and kids, I don’t know where my day goes.” My heart goes out to them. Writing is harder work…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: An Interview with Ransom Stephens of Litquake
I’ve long been a huge admirer of Litquake, which to me is one of the most vibrant and engaged literary festival anywhere in the world. So I am delighted to have Ransom Stephens, Litquake host and organizer, participate in the “On Writing Well” series. As a novelist, writer and Litquake event organizer, Ransom’s advice, both…
Read MoreTips on Online Commenting
Commenting – it has become an extremely important part of the online experience. Are you, as a writer, leveraging comments to their full potential? Listen in to this week’s Online Writing Insider podcast (Tips on Commenting) as Jason Menayan and Simone Smith, two long-time netizens, share the top dos and don’ts with leaving, accepting, curating,…
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