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We teach our students how to write and get published.

Learn from published authors who have spent decades perfecting their writing craft. Our bi-weekly posts offer ways to improve your craft and support your writing for adult genres such as romance, mystery, thriller, horror, and adventure.

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5 Steps to Reprinting Song Lyrics Without Getting Sued

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Some years ago, an aspiring novelist told me

December 26, 2017

A Self-Publishing Primer

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > You’ve done your outline, carefully completed extensive research,

December 19, 2017

Method To My Madness Part 2

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Last week I touched on how I began

December 12, 2017

How and Why I Do What I Do

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The Method to My Madness—Sort Of I often

December 5, 2017

Profile of a Successful Freelance Writer

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Today our guest blogger, Chaunie Brusie, is profiling

November 28, 2017

How to Break Into Freelance Writing

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Not too long ago, I was burning with

November 21, 2017

Creating a Writing Schedule That Works

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > You sit down to your computer, the entire

November 14, 2017

How to Write From Home With Kids

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > I’m about to tell you something that may

November 7, 2017

Putting It All Together

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > We’ve talked about voice, tone, and humor. We’ve

October 31, 2017

Six Ways to Gear Up for NaNoWriMo Now!

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > It’s coming! Are you ready? You’re probably asking,

October 26, 2017

Whose Story is it Anyway? Thoughts On Viewpoint

Zeroing in on the viewpoint and finding the right way into the story is difficult. Check out these tips to consider when choosing the POV of your story.

October 24, 2017

Interjecting Humor in Your Work

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Cours Catalog > Out of all the style tools we describe

October 17, 2017

Finding the Right Tone for Your Story

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > We’ve talked about “voice” now it is time

October 10, 2017

Training Your Writer’s Voice to Come Out to Play

A writer’s voice is his or her fingerprint on a piece of work. It’s like DNA when it’s authentic. How do you define and develop your writer’s voice? Read on!

October 3, 2017

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Comma Long With Me and Celebrate Punctuation Day | IFW

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > It’s like they created a day just for

September 19, 2017

Author’s Day and Stress Awareness Day

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Author’s Day and Stress Awareness Day Two Celebrations

September 12, 2017