Australian Writers' Forum

https://bluebirdofbitterness.com/2019/0 ... aloungers/

Whoops, wrong one - but I'll leave it, and put the right one here:

https://careerauthors.com/author-voice/

I hope you enjoy the first one as much as the second one!

Yes, they will. Surprise should come with an, 'Oh, of course - I should've seen it coming!' and not a, 'What the cheese?' or 'Who is that character?'
I would burn the book, toss it to the chooks, or drop it in the craypot. Even if I did it ...

https://www.writersdigest.com/online-ed ... ightens-us

Although, not really surprise, 'cos you built it into the story in tiny little crumbs, yes?

https://www.writersdigest.com/online-ed ... conference

I like the 'revise and edit' and the 'innovator' quotes ... oh, and

I'd like to put a two-center in here. Harper Lee - I hear people say she only ever wrote one book in her lifetime, but she was a prolific writer of short stories, published in magazines and on radio. She wrote for her people, friends and family and community, and it was a family member (maybe a cous...

https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2019/08/ ... lague.html?

https://writerunboxed.com/2019/08/19/good-story-endings-happy-or-sad-or-something-else/ The cover, title and blurb should be good enough to get your reader to open the book and read it, but these are not the things that make a reader go to your next book. The ending does that. The best ending for th...

I'm not sure about only writing what you know - I think writing what you're passionate about, what you'd love to know, the things that create the deep intrigue that ensure research of the driest subject matter becomes fascinating.
Write what you love, what makes your heart race ...

https://www.standoutbooks.com/ernest-he ... ng-advice/

I particularly like this: Write people, not characters