Posted on May 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft and process advice to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Writing for readers: Tracy Shawn reminds her fellow authors to think like — and be — a reader in order to craft a novel that will captivate readers (Women Writers, Women's Books).
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Want to write better action scenes?: K.M. Weiland encourages you to drop excessive description to keep your reader fixated on the high-stakes action (Helping Writers Become Authors).
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Secrets thesaurus: Here's how your character's knowledge that death is coming for someone can alter your novel (Writers Helping Writers).
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On writing and reading sex scenes: Rachel Callaghan reflects on a reviewer who criticized the amount of detail in the intimate scenes in her novel (Women Writers, Women's Books).
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Writing problematic characters: Grace Wynter explains what makes a character problematic, versus flawed, so that writers feel confident in which type of person they're creating and can choose based on their story's need (Writer Unboxed).
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