You can read all the writing advice in the world, but in the end, it all comes down to how YOU approach the page or the screen. To help illustrate how we’re all just a little bit different, I’m taking a standard list of questions about writing and posing it to dozens of different writers. As you scroll though their answers, I think you’ll see we’re all as individual as fingerprints or snowflakes. And if you’re a writer who’d like to participate in this questionnaire, please email me.
Reading time: About 2 minutes Sarah WaterRaven says writing is no different from any other profession…. Sarah WaterRaven is an urban fantasy author who says she kills people and then distracts readers with pixies. She is the author of Detective Docherty and I Fell in Love with a Necromancer. I […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jen Frankel says the Oscar Wilde quote, “It’s better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating,” helps keep her grounded as a writer. Jen Frankel is the author of the vegan zombie romantic satire Undead Redhead and the Blood & Magic series. Her
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Cid V Brunet says it’s always important to have time away from my desk to let the writing simmer on the back-burner…. Cid V Brunet published their debut memoir, This Is My Real Name, with Arsenal Pulp Press in 2021. With recent poetry publications in
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Charmaine Li says she likes to tell herself that she needs to write for only five minutes. Often, she ends up writing for longer than that, but the idea that she MUST write for only five minutes helps to persuade her to sit down… Charmaine
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Madelaine Caritas Longman estimates that estimate that for most people, writing is at least 80% rewriting… Madelaine Caritas Longman is the author of the poetry collection The Danger Model (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), which received the Quebec Writers Federation Concordia University First Book Prize. Her
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Write Kit Daven keeps a mantra posted near her computer. It reads: By Any Means Necessary…. Kit Daven’s heart beats for the eerie and the extraordinary in her tales. Her sci fantasy series, A Xiinisi Trilogy (The Forgotten Gemstone, The Other Castle, and The Starry
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Reading time: About 3 minutes JF Garrard encourages authors to write because they love doing it and because they love the craft. Don’t think too much about what others have accomplished, she advises…. JF Garrard is an award-winning speculative fiction writer (The Undead Sorceress, The Blue Son, Sasaeng Waves), editor
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Gina Brown says that many talented writers become stymied by limiting thoughts. Read on to learn how to defeat these thoughts…. Gina Brown is a writer and founder of NovaHeart Media, an independent publishing platform. She has written two novels, The Sugar Bowl Feud (2024)
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Although she never has enough time for writing, Su Chang says she always aspires to write a “child’s draft,” where she lets all the words pour out and doesn’t worry about rearranging them until later… Su Chang is a Chinese-Canadian writer. Her debut novel The
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Susan Sanford Blades says she pretty much NEVER feels like writing, but deals with the challenge by being obedient to her writing schedule… Susan Sanford Blades’ debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the 2021 ReLit Award in the novel category and was a finalist
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