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Guest Blogger: Joanne Guidoccio – What Will You Do When Your Characters Misbehave?

11 Comments / Uncategorized / By Debra Goldstein

What Will You Do When Your Characters Misbehave? by Joanne Guidoccio When I first heard this question at a creative writing workshop, I was tempted to say that I intended to firmly hold onto the reins. A neophyte with no literary credits to my name, I couldn’t imagine characters actually misbehaving on the page. Thankfully, […]

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Guest Blogger: Judy Alter – Never Throw Out a Manuscript

6 Comments / Uncategorized / By Debra Goldstein

Never Throw Out a Manuscript by Judy Alter Back in the day we used to say every author had a stack of unpublished manuscripts in the basement or the closet. Today, those hidden gems are on our computers. I recently reclaimed one from the forgotten files. In the spring of 2017, I started a culinary

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Guest Blogger: Cathy Perkins – Write What You Know

10 Comments / Uncategorized / By Debra Goldstein

Write What You Know by Cathy Perkins Every author has heard that mantra at least once—and probably a lot more often. Anyone who’s taken a writing class or read a craft book has seen that adage. Whatever the answer, like all writing advice, it’s up to you to take it or leave it. I hunted

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Guest Blogger: Alexia Gordon – Writer’s Block? – Ways to Motivate Yourself

3 Comments / Uncategorized, Writer's Thoughts, Writing / By Debra Goldstein

Writer’s Block? – Ways to Motivate Yourself by Alexia Gordon When writing experts aren’t debating writer’s block’s existence, they’re offering sure-fired ways to beat it. I can’t guarantee a fix for writer’s block but I do have a few techniques I use to motivate myself when I feel stuck. 1. I write the same sentence

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Why I Write the Different Blogs I Write and What That Means for You

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Debra Goldstein

Why I Write the Different Blogs I Write and What That Means for You by Debra H. Goldstein When I started writing, I was told I needed to establish a social media presence. My son helped me get on Facebook, I wrote a short tweet on Twitter, and I created a Linked In profile. I

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Barb Goffman – Guest Blogger – With a Little Help from My Friends

9 Comments / crafting mysery, Guest Blogs, Uncategorized, Writing / By Debra Goldstein

With a Little Help From My Friends by Barb Goffman Ah, the perennial question: Where do you get your ideas? Mine spring from all kinds of places. Newspaper articles. Overheard conversations. Advertisements. Sometimes they seemingly spring from nowhere, a random product of the weirdness that is my brain. But even those out-of-nowhere stories likely had

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Blogs for You, for Me – What Shall it Be?

6 Comments / cozy mystery / By Debra Goldstein

Blogs – For You, For Me – What shall it be? by Debra H. Goldstein Do blogs make a difference? Do people still read them? I personally think so, but I’m not sure. The reality is we are all inundated with blog messages. How do you pick and choose which ones to follow or read?

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Guest Blogger: Leslie Karst – It’s All About How You Tell the Story

13 Comments / Uncategorized / By Debra Goldstein

It’s All About How You Tell the Story by Leslie Karst Like Debra—the host of this fabulous blog—my career before becoming a mystery author was in the legal profession. I spent twenty years as a civil attorney specializing in research and appellate work, which was basically akin to writing a term paper every day of

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Guest Blogger: Sandra Robson – How I Write Mysteries

2 Comments / author's thoughts, Mystery, Uncategorized / By Debra Goldstein

HOW I WRITE MYSTERIES by Sandra Robson When I start writing a new book, I begin with a blank piece of poster board and a strong sense of place. A three-story, desolate-looking house in Newport, Rhode Island, an ancient white stucco church in New Mexico, a London street in relentless rain—the aura of an intriguing

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Guest Blogger: Carol L. Wright – Writing to a Theme

6 Comments / Women Writers, Writing / By Debra Goldstein

Writing to a Theme by Carol L. Wright Remember back in school when the teacher would give you an assignment to write on a particular theme? Something along the lines of “What I Did on my Summer Vacation” or “What I Want to Be When I Grow Up”? Well, for those of us who grow

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Guest Blogger: Joanne Guidoccio – What Will You Do When Your Characters Misbehave?

Guest Blogger: Judy Alter – Never Throw Out a Manuscript

Guest Blogger: Cathy Perkins – Write What You Know

Guest Blogger: Alexia Gordon – Writer’s Block? – Ways to Motivate Yourself

Why I Write the Different Blogs I Write and What That Means for You

Barb Goffman – Guest Blogger – With a Little Help from My Friends

Blogs for You, for Me – What Shall it Be?

Guest Blogger: Leslie Karst – It’s All About How You Tell the Story

Guest Blogger: Sandra Robson – How I Write Mysteries

Guest Blogger: Carol L. Wright – Writing to a Theme

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