Short Stories vs. Longer Works
Anonymous asked: I wrote a short story a couple of weeks ago that I think really stands well on its own, but I normally stick with...
How Line Editing Can Make Your Story Stronger – From a Line Editor
Hi everyone! If you follow this blog and read our book reviews then you know a lot of times one of our big complaints is the story could...
Clean/Sweet Romance
standard-ang3l asked: Mary Jo Putney for the ask thing! Mary Jo Putney: Position on the “calling romances without sex ‘clean’ or ‘sweet’...
Terrible Tropes
vampirechilled asked: Alyssa Cole and Abigail Barnette for the ask meme Ohhhh going for the fun ones… okay. I can do this. Alyssa Cole:...
On Rape Culture
Pssst… Fiction writers of the world, let me let you in on a little dose of truth. Your female characters don’t owe your male characters...
Advice for Friends Who Want to Write
ragamuffin--child asked: Is there a polite way to tell a friend (who does have a work published) that her dreams of becoming a full time...
On Editing
Anonymous asked: So I'm noticing what seems to be a pretty chronic theme of the paucity of editing in the self-published romance writing...
Code-Switching
randomnoteforfuturereference asked: So let's say you are writing a story where someone code-switches from English to a "right-to-left"...
Is Romance “just fantasy?”
I was having a conversation the other day. Other Person: Isn’t Romance, you know, all fantasy and stuff? Me: The only fantastical thing...
Don't Disparage Fandom
There are all sorts of essays and articles about how fanfiction allows authors to grow as writers while still having the comforts and...
Words to Watch Out For
We’ve just finished our third… or is it fourth draft. During this readthrough, we discovered multiple words we tend to overuse - and, to...