Writing the Crime Scene: Guns
By Repo Kempt
An article about myths, misconceptions and common mistakes when crime authors write about guns.
Storyville: Continuing Your Writing Education
Some tips and advice about how to continue your writing education.
Writing the Crime Scene: Dead Bodies
By Repo Kempt
This is a basic guide for crime fiction writers including research tips and links. This months topic is 'dead bodies'.
5 Tips on Researching Legal Jargon for Writers
By Repo Kempt
Whether your protagonist is a hotshot attorney walking into a murder trial or a convicted criminal awaiting his appeal, it’s important that you maintain your authority by using the correct jargon.
Storyville: Six Dark Contemporary Films That Can Inspire Your Fiction
Here are some of my favorite recent films, and ways they can inform and inspire your writing.
Storyville: The DOs and DONTs of Running a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
Advice on how to run a successful Kickstarter campaign from someone who's done it.
Finding Story Inspiration in Strip Clubs
By Rob Hart
If you want to get the feel for a town, strip clubs are a good place to start. Rob Hart shares his strip club experiences and how they've influenced his new novel, CITY OF ROSE.
Writing the Unknown Setting: 8 Tips on Conducting a Research Trip for your WIP
What happens if you need to set a story in a place you've never seen? Melissa F. Olson, author of the Boundary Magic series, walks you through how to plan a location research trip.
12 Productive Ways to be Unproductive
Procrastination doesn’t have to be a complete waste of time. Instead, it can be only sort of a waste of time.
In Defense of (and Against) 'Write What You Know'
It's the most trite piece of advice any writer can receive...or is it?
DIY Book Covers for the Self Publishing-Inclined Part 2
You've learned how to combine stock images to create vaguely interesting book covers. Time to learn some easy typography tricks.
Storyville: Writer’s Block—Where It Comes From, and How to Break Through
Information on where writer's block comes from, and how to fix it.
5 Great Books About the Craft of Writing
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Harlan Ellison, HWA, Jeff VanderMeer, List, Research, Robert McKee, screenwriting, Stephen King, Wonderbook
Sometimes you'd rather read about writing than write. That's okay, we got you covered.
Storyville: Shifting Sympathies
Tips and suggestions on how to shift the sympathy of the reader from one character to another.
Storyville: Ten Places to Send Your Fiction in 2015
Ten ideas for where to send your fiction in 2015.
Storyville: Advance Your Writing Career—NOW!
Advance your writing career right now! Hop to it—some tips and tricks.
It's Made of SCIENCE: Cloning
Everything you need to know about cloning, genetic modification, and SCIENCE!
On Weed: Should Writers Write While High?
By Peter Derk
Does weed help the writing process? Let's find out.
Storyville: Writing a Novel Without Plotting it Out
Tips on how to write a novel without plotting it out.
So You Want to Write A Book: Part 0 — Ready, Set, Don't Go Yet
By Leah Rhyne
In this, the first in a new series of columns about the mechanics of writing a book, we'll talk about the prep work that should occur before you even sit down at your computer/notebook/typewriter.
Bodices Don’t Rip: Writing Accurate Historical Fiction
Sitting in a classroom or wandering through a sterile museum, we often feel estranged from history. But history is really about people, and that’s what makes it such fertile ground for writers.
The Curious, Poetic Lives of the Rossetti Siblings
Born to a literary scholar obsessed with the works of Dante, siblings Christina and Dante Rossetti would respectively become some of the most famous poets of the Victorian era.
On Research: The World is Full of Experts
The author of 'The Last Policeman' trilogy extolls the virtues of going out into the real world for your research.
