How to Speak so Strangers Will Buy: Hand-Selling Your Book at Live Events

By Adrienne deWolfe
Posted 12/15/2025

Selling sucks. We all know it; we all hate to do it. 

If you’re an Introvert, nothing is scarier than the idea of facing your Reading Public at a live event. Extroverts feel the same way. We’re just good at pretending.

As a Scaredy Cat, who dreaded rejection so much that it made me ill, I invented a motivational mantra. Perhaps it will help you:

“Fear of selling is the insidious Evil that has kept millions of writers in the poorhouse for hundreds of years.”

Five Things Authors Get Wrong About Horses, and How You Can Get Them Right

By Lizzie Jenks
Posted 1/15/2025

London, 1817. The full moon still shone bright over the city as he entered the stable. The stable lads were all asleep, so he pulled his stallion out of its stall, buckled on its harness, and then he hitched up the coach and set out into the darkness. 

Wait. What? 

This would never have happened, and most of your readers know it. They might not know why, but they feel it in their bones, and that yanks them out of the story with a painful thunk. 

Message from the President - December 2024 RWR

December is the perfect time to pause and reflect on your accomplishments in 2024. Writing can sometimes feel like a lonely pursuit, but every word written, every manuscript revised or completed, and every manuscript acquired or published is an accomplishment worth celebrating. This is something I do every year as the clock counts down to the start of the New Year, and I encourage you to take pride in your own 2024 journey.

How to Make the Most of Your Writing Time

By Leslie J.Wyatt
Posted 12/16/2024

Assuming you’ve been able to carve out a dedicated writing time from your allotted twenty-four hours and figured out where you’ll do that writing, congratulations! Those crucial pieces of the overall picture are essential to writing success. With your when and your where now in place, it’s time to address some aspects of how to make the most of that precious window of creativity. 

Goal Setting: Work Smarter, Not Harder

By Diana Georgelos
Posted 12/16/2024

Crafting Goals and Business Plans for Novel Writers: Innovative Approaches and Best Practices

By Lisa Kober
Posted 12/16/2024

Five Tips for Turning Your Writing Goals Inside Out and Upside Down When You Feel Stuck

By Ann Kellett
Posted 12/16/2024

There’s a lot of great advice for the writing life: write every day, track your progress, write first and edit later, and so on. 

But too often, the writing goals that served us well early on suddenly lose their magic. We find ourselves in a creative rut and even the best advice cannot seem to help us make the words flow.

Chart Your Course: Find Direction and Purpose with Goals

By Kristina Knight
Posted 12/16/2024

Looking Back to Move Forward

For years, I viewed writing as a relentless pursuit of publication, a destination to be reached at all costs. A destination that would have finality. This mindset, while well-intentioned, often left me feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and ultimately unfulfilled. It was as if I was constantly chasing a carrot dangling just out of reach.

Message from the President - November 2024 RWR

As the calendar year winds down, many of us will find these last months busy both personally and professionally. I’m setting small, attainable goals to help me maintain forward momentum in my writing and personal journeys. Balancing time management with self-care is challenging, but it’s a skill I know I can master to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Whether you’re participating in a writing challenge or pushing forward with your latest manuscript, I encourage you to be creative with your time and your self-care.

A Writer’s Voice, part 2—Or, One Path to Finding Yours!

By Janet W. Butler
Posted 11/26/2024

In part 1, we talked about the unique writer’s voice—and that, sometimes, it’s hard to define or pinpoint. 

How do you know what your particular “voice” is? 

How do you identify it? 

How do you know it when you hear it? 

And can it change?

Last question first, because this particular question seems to be a biggie. 

Short answer? Yes…to a point.