How to Start Writing a Book
carriejonesbooks People ask me all the time about how to start writing a book, and I think I’m getting more emails about this than I normally do, which means – a…
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Boxers or Briefs or the Commando – Living the Literary Life
Carrie has been working on the Write Submit Support Class that she’s doing with the Writing Barn and the whole class is about creating a writing community and supporting each…
Boxers or Briefs or Commando, Living the Literary Life
Carrie has been working on the Write Submit Support Class that she’s doing with the Writing Barn and the whole class is about creating a writing community and supporting each…
What? Your Childhood Wasn’t Awesome? Welcome to the World of Writers
A lot of us writers had childhoods that were less than the spectacular childhoods written about with nostalgia like The Christmas Story. And you know, what? That’s okay. If your…
A Story Is About More than Mechanics and Grammar.
Too often we really focus only on the mechanics of story. Writers and student-writers are told to make perfect sentences, understand the use of the semi-colon, and to spell words…