Writing In No Time

By Kris Bock
Posted 11/26/2024

So many things demand our time—job, spouse, children, volunteer work, housework. It’s tempting to say, I’ll write during vacation, or when the kids are back in school, or when the kids leave home, or when I retire ….

Yet if you want to be a writer, you must find time to write. 


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Tips for Love Scenes from Someone Who Skips Over Them, Usually

By Robin Hillyer Miles
Posted 2/28/2025

Anything You Can Do …


You know how you’ll read a love story, and the sex is kinda blah? Or the intimate details are too graphic for your tastes? And you think, of course you think, gosh I can write a better love scene than that?


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Thinking Outside the Bookstore

By Mindy Hardwick
Posted 1/15/2025

What is your definition of writing success? When I first began writing, I attended a conference workshop on defining success. In my mind, I saw myself at a large bookstore, the seats packed as I read from my latest book. Afterward, there would be a line of people waiting for my signature. I’d worked in bookstores throughout college and into my early twenties and this was what a successful author looked like to me. 
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WHY PLOTTING IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS

By Diana Georgelos
Posted 10/30/2024

When companies launch new products, they spend a considerable amount of time on research and development. I would know. I’ve spent a significant part of my career working to create consumer packaged goods products, otherwise known as the products you find lining the shelves of grocery stores and pharmacies. The first step in any new product development process is to conduct a brainstorming meeting to generate innovative ideas. Then the team assesses the desirability and viability of the options and picks the best idea to develop. As part of the process, the team develops early-stage prototypes which they test and improve before launching the final version of the product into the marketplace.
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Write Your Christmas-Romance TV-Movie Script Today!

By Scott Kirkpatrick
Posted 10/30/2024

Ever thought about writing your own Christmas romance TV movie script? 

You should! Christmas romance movies are cute, quaint and cozy. They’re also major business verticals for television broadcasters and video on demand platforms—which means there’s a huge audience out there. 

Nearly 150 original Christmas romances are produced every year. Audiences seek them out as early as October. And although no writing project could ever be classified as ‘easy’, I will say that film/TV executives are slightly open-minded to receiving Christmas romance scripts from unknown and/or non-represented writers than other genres. (Why? Simply because they need a lot of them.) 
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