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Turning Whine Into Gold: Managing Your Emotions
By Kathryn Craft On a good day, your writing—or perhaps even your writing career—makes you happy, satisfied, fulfilled, joyful, transcendent, validated. This, right here—this is why you write. You need...
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Turning Whine into Gold: Surmounting Obstacles
First, for those of you who read and commented on one or both of Tiffany Lawson Inman’s Emotional Barrier posts last week, Tiffany left a comment announcing the winner of a free slot in the Madness to...
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Turning Whine into Gold: Put Inner Conflict on Your Team
By Kathryn Craft Storytellers know that on the page, internal conflict is a writer’s best friend. But when that conflict emerges from voices inside the writer’s own head, where each wants to weigh in...
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Turning Whine into Gold: The Writer’s Spirit is Forged in the Fire
by Kathryn Craft Last week I had to un-friend someone on Facebook for violating my right to pursue happiness. I can only assume he’s had enough of reading about the growing excitement for my debut...
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5 Things Readers Want from Novelists on Social Media
Turning Whine into Gold: 5 things readers want from novelists on social media by Kathryn Craft You may not have a book out, but if you have expressed on Twitter or Facebook your hope to be a published...
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What it Takes to Go the Distance
Laura here – Speaking of going the distance, I just wanted to let you know that I’m teaching a course, Submissions that Sell, the in February at Margie Lawson’s Writers Academy. Need a query? Need to...
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5 Tips To Help Writers Embrace Change
by Kathryn Craft Turning Whine into Gold Everything’s changing. Yep—that’s a whine all right, and a truth, and the summary of this entire post. Change is as constant in publishing as any other industry...
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5 Steps Toward Your Truest Contribution
By Kathryn Craft Turning Whine Into Gold The lament of the modern author, whose writing must now compete for purchase with every other book, from classics like the Iliad to the newest self-published...
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Writing Agreement # 1: Be Impeccable with Your Word
Turning Whine into Gold By Kathryn Craft, @KCraftWriter Last year, Janice Gable Bashman and I co-wrote an article for Writer’s Digest Magazine, The 7 Deadly Sins of Self-Editing, that turned out to be...
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