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Keeping Things Short: Difficult But Required Sometimes by Beth Daniels, aka Beth Henderson, J.B. Dane, Nied Darnell

I don’t know about you, but my writing career began with writing stories that were 75,000 to over 100,000 words. That allows for vivid descriptions, too much (so editors tell me) character introspection, secondary plot lines and…well, lots of fun things. When I was in college and professors didn’t want to see anything longer than …

The Great Search for Great Characters By Becky Martinez

If you have been having problems with creating characters, sometimes it just takes a little bit of extra effort.

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Put your Favorite People & Places to Work! By Becky Martinez

Finishing a book can be both a relief and letdown. Yes, we are happy the book or story is finished and we can celebrate a feeling of accomplishment at having finally written The End to the project. But don’t you also feel sad about losing your daily contact with those characters and the place you’ve …

Short Stories, Easier Than A Novel? by Kathy Otten

I wrote my first short story for a contest when I was sixteen. The story was one of the winners chosen for publication in a magazine for Christian teens. Since then I’ve had several short stories published, in historical romance, historical fiction, and contemporary romance. The shortest piece I’ve written was 495 words and the longest …