From Rick: Years ago, the major publishers pretty much stopped publishing western novels because, like many of the nonsensical things they did, they assumed—for some inexplicable reason—that people didn’t want to read Westerns anymore. Some novel genres seemed to go
Read moreguest post by Kellee Kranendonk I was watching an episode of an old show from the ’70s the other day. As a writer, I find it difficult to watch a show without noting its flaws or to read a book
Read moreguest post by Kellee Kranendonk Over the next several weeks, I’ll be interspersing Scott’s and my posts with some posts on writing craft by Kellee Kranendonk. Kellee has given us a number of excellent posts in the past, so we’re
Read moreFrom Rick: This week’s post is from Branden Johnson, author of the novel Heaven’s Forgotten. I’ve known Branden for over ten years and have watched him grow from a budding writer to a published author. He has also had three
Read moreGUEST BLOG FROM E.J. FINDORFF From Rick: Although I knew who E.J. Findorff was, since we shared the same publisher at one point, I had never dealt with him until about a year ago when I saw his review request
Read moreby Kellee Kranendonk From Rick: This post is an excellent follow-up to Kellee’s post last week on crafting a marketable story. Here, Kellee gives you some ideas on how to categorize the story you’ve just written. This can be important
Read moreby Kellee Kranendonk From Rick: While reviewing Kellee’s articles that previous appeared in Silver Blade, I found this one for a perfect follow-up to my “From Idea to Story” series because writing the story is only half the battle. Assuming
Read moreGuest post by Sherri Ellerman ========== From Rick: Sherri Ellerman has been a very active member of Silver Pen since she joined several months ago. Aside from her activities and work at Silver Pen, she recently became the flash fiction
Read moreGuest post by Annette Taylor ========== From Rick: This week’s post comes from writer Annette Taylor who originally submitted this as an article to Fabula Argentea magazine. It was an excellent article, but FA only publishes stories. It gave me
Read moreFrom Kellee: Okay, so now you’ve written your story. You’ve found your focus (or theme), you’ve shown instead of telling, and you found a balance of action, dialogue and description. You even got critiques so you edited, revised, and polished
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