Today we have the next installment of Chapter One - MOM DROPS THE ULTIMATUM...      It started on a Monday. The End of My Life. Ah, now I...

Yay! We have a submission! This first chapter is brought to you by Joan and here is part one:       I’m not going to talk about my bin...

Yep, you heard me right. You could see your first chapter here at UB, critted by moi and everyone else who pops in this week. All you have t...

The last bit of advice I have for this week is learn to laugh about your own writing mistakes.  I forgot how valuable a gift this is until...

Here's a little video for you to clarify the difference between objective and subjective. The monotone narrator is slightly sleep induci...

I'm sure you're wondering what yesterday's post was all about. What does subjectiveness have to do with weekly meetings and upco...

Each one of us is different. We like different things and it colors how we read and write. This also makes it hard to know how much detail a...

Today I'm going to let you have a peek into what goes into all these posts on UB. Did you know that we meet every week to talk about ...

As promised, I have a query critique for you! Thank you to my brave volunteer. --- Dear Agent, Analyzed. IDed. Mentored. That was Si...

The good news is that if you're getting requests from your query, then your query is probably not the problem. Your story premise is int...

I don't think anyone claims that a 250 word query can really capture all of the complexity and art of a full novel. However, since agen...

It's query week! I'll be posting about how to write queries and will have some interviews with acquisitions editors too! In addition...

It’s Friday. And I’m out of useful writerly website ideas. So instead, today I’m just going to link to some of my favorite semi-writerly blo...

How’s your vocabulary? As readers, we build our vocabularies. As writers, we use that store of knowledge. The best way to find just the ri...

Proper grammar is important for a writer. It’s one of those things that’ll make me put down a book and not pick it up again. (I’d think that...

One of my issues when it comes to story is finding character names and place names. I’m terrible at it. I pull street names. I once used t...

Thank you for dropping by in this busy blogging month of April. Since half the Internet (at last count) is doing the A to Z Challenge, I tho...