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Not alone
I’ve always been a bit of a loner, quite content with being by myself. Too content actually; a result of childhood experiences I’d rather forget. Writing suits me. But sometimes it’s not the best for...
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Famous first lines and apple tarts
Helga’s Post #6 — One week after our return from the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. Information overload on books and writing. How to write the perfect book, how to avoid pitfalls, how to...
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Hearing things that aren’t there
Silk’s Post #13 — I briefly considered changing the number of this post. Since I lead off the week here at 5 Writers central, I’m the minder of the post number count. Last week was 12. This week is the...
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Interview with a vampire
Joe’s Post #13 Are you a vampire? No. But a catchy title is important. If I wrote interview with me, who would read it? However, I often resemble a member of the undead, especially if I haven’t had a...
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The monkey see, monkey do trap
Silk’s Post #14 — I can’t write and read at the same time. This is different from the jokey problem of walking while chewing gum. It’s not that I can’t multi-task, god knows. That’s all I do is...
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Book buying
Joe’s post #18 — How do you buy books? By genre? By authors? By recommendations from friends? By the pretty picture on the cover? Ok, but let’s be more specific. How do you decide to buy a book by a...
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Breaking the rules
Silk’s Post #26 — Everybody ‘writes’. (Let’s leave the very real literacy problem aside for the moment and concede that writing is a pretty commonplace activity.) We all express ourselves in written...
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Origin of phrases and quotes
Karalee’s Post # 26 — I’ve often wondered where sayings come from and this is a great opportunity to have some fun.The references below can entertain you for hours if you have an inclination for...
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What happens next…
Paula’s Post #30 – Officially, our 5writers challenge ended on February 5th, 2013 when we all hit the ‘send’ button and rocketed our manuscripts into cyberspace, whether complete or incomplete....
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A clear and present danger
Paula’s Post #65 — We live in the digital age. A time of ever-increasing distractions. Our iPhones, our iPads, our Fuel Bands and Fitbits, our 1000+ digital cable channels, our Netflix and Twitter and...
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Conflicted… again.
Paula’s Post #84 I”m conflicted. If you read my post from last week, Open for Debate, you’ll note that this week, I had every good intention of continuing with the topic of ‘deconstruction’ as a tool...
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Backstage at a bestseller
Silk’s Post #105 — When Paula wondered in her last post whether the 5/5/5 exercise of deconstructing a novel was a waste of time – didn’t it make more sense to stop with the procrastinating and...
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How to give like a writer
Silk’s Post #113 — I always get a little misty when I hear Christmas carols. I think the sound of music is directly hard-wired to our memory banks. I can’t hear “The Little Drummer Boy” without choking...
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Do you need to make a resolution to write?
Karalee’s Post #99 Our 5Writer’s group is resetting their compasses to point to the directions each one of us desires to take in 2015. Of course we are all writers, so when I gave my resolutions a...
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Writing as performance art: my first reading
Silk’s Post #121 — And now, we interrupt my mini-series of posts on how to overcome obstacles to writing with this eyewitness report from the literary front … Sunday, March 1, 10:00 am — Weeks ago, I...
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Reading out loud
Joe’s Post #132 As Silk posted in her blog, she got a chance to read her novel out loud. Well, the first 10 pages, anyway. Pretty terrifying, but it also got me thinking. (Originally written as … “it...
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Reading is the best medicine
Joe’s Post #133 Actually, I should say reading good books is the best medicine. In my newly busy life, I’ve found it hard to carve out time to read (and write, but, ah, yeah, let’s not talk about...
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Internet, your writing friend and foe.
Karalee’s Post #108 I’m back from holidays, energized and full of new ideas and ways of looking at my characters. For me a holiday is a change of routine, a gift of time to explore. And exploring can...
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