239: Tips for a Brilliant Writer’s Website
239: 8 Tips for Your Writer Website
April 2, 2021
How To Find Hot Nonfiction Topics
The popularity of nonfiction makes it worth an author’s time to investigate. Here’s how to find hot nonfiction topics that publishers are looking for.
Magazine Sleuth: What to Study Before You Write | IFW
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When people think of writing, they might picture themselves with their hands eagerly curled over the keyboard waiting for inspiration to strike. Then, once the frenzy of inspiration has passed, they hit the save button, and wonder what…
5 Questions About Author Platform – Institute for Writers
238: 5 Questions About Author Platform
March 26, 2021
Lauren Persons
Lost But Found March 26, 2021
Book Promotion: Do I Need This?
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When it comes to promotion, it pays to evaluate each step in the process before jumping in. After all, some things cost a lot of money or a lot of time and…
237: Interview with Victoria Bond
237: Interview with Victoria Bond
March 19, 2021
Debby Shade
Koala PrintsMarch 19, 2021
The Best Book Promotion Uses What You Have | IFW
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Book promotion has one goal, getting your book known so that people will read it and love it (or hate it, honestly, people are fickle) and talk about it. Many writers panic,…
Sci-Fi Characters Help Your Readers Stay Afloat | IFW
If readers believe in your human sci-fi characters, they’ll believe every other aspect of your story, no matter how weird or alien or out of this world. Readers will follow you anywhere, even to the ends of the universe.
236: 3 Ways to Find Character Voice
236: Finding Your Childlike Voice
March 12, 2021
Creating Science Fiction Characters: Don’t Let the Genre Upstage Them
Our goal in creating science fiction characters is to write characters that are deeper and more engaging than the fantastical world around them.
235: Quality Kid Dialogue
235: Authentic Kid Voices
March 5, 2021
Anita Palmeri Overgaard
3rd Place: CAUGHT UP IN CHRIST: SPIRITAL FIRST-AID FOR BELIEVERS AND SEEKERS
Rick Merfeld
Published author and IFW graduate Rick Merfeld share how taking multiple one-on-one writing courses helped him in getting his book Caught Up in Christ published. Dive in to know more about his work!
Breaking Down Science Fiction To Find Your Place | IFW
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Science fiction is the marriage of science and imagination. The genre has been popular in film, television, graphic novels and fiction for young people (mostly middle grade and up). It is a…
Conventional Structures for Unconventional stories | IFW
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Conventional Structures for Unconventional stories What is it that you love about science fiction? The out-of-this-world settings? The nifty gadgets? The weird aliens? As unconventional as science fiction can get, it almost always follows a conventional structure. Take…
234: Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Jamie Tan
234: Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Jamie Tan
February 26, 2021
The Agent of V.O.I.C.E: Work Undercover for the Best Writing
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When we think about voice, the goal really is to create effective and memorable writing. Voice is not some false face a writer puts on simply to get attention. When writers do…
Teresa Robeson
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the AtomFebruary 19, 2021
