K.P. Gresham
Assessments 2022 / Goals 2023
By N. M. Cedeño We’ll start with assessments: I started 2022 with the goal of getting short stories published. In aid of that goal, I set...
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K.P. Gresham
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K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!
K.P. Gresham
Jul 11, 20224 min read
Facing a Writing Challenge
by N. M. Cedeño Many writers find motivation in challenging themselves in various ways. Some attempt to write a novel length manuscript...
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K.P. Gresham
Jun 20, 20223 min read
Review: Nancy Peacock’s A Broom of One’s Own (A Public Service Repost)
by Kathy Waller I wrote the following for my personal blog to answer a “challenge.” I intended to post it at the end of September...
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K.P. Gresham
Jun 13, 20223 min read
The 2022 Writers’ Police Academy
by K.P. Gresham I’ve just returned from the Writers’ Police Academy in Appleton, WI. The brainchild of retired cop, Lee Lofland, The...
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K.P. Gresham
May 30, 20223 min read
Getting Texas Wrong in Fiction- Details Matter Y’all
Anyone who lives in Texas knows that Hollywood’s version of Texas and the actual Texas are very different places. Mostly, we Texans roll...
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K.P. Gresham
Apr 2, 20223 min read
Why I Go to Critique Group
by Kathy Waller I said to my critique partner this morning, The whole project is stinky it stinks it’s fatally flawed just nothing no...
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K.P. Gresham
Nov 22, 20213 min read
End of Year Assessments and Thanksgiving
by N. M. Cedeño For writers, setting and meeting goals can be done in a variety of ways. Some people count words produced in a given...
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K.P. Gresham
Sep 6, 20213 min read
Don’t Delete “Unsuccessful” Manuscripts
By N.M. Cedeño A number of the stories sitting in files on my computer were written years ago, some over ten years ago, and have never...
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K.P. Gresham
Jul 26, 20213 min read
Working with Editors
by N. M. Cedeño Nothing makes a writer feel more like a know-nothing novice than a marked-up manuscript from an editor. Whenever I get a...
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K.P. Gresham
Jul 19, 20214 min read
Judging a Book by Its Cover
By K.P. Gresham “Good cover design is not only about beauty… it’s a visual sales pitch. It’s your first contact with a potential reader....
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K.P. Gresham
Jun 21, 20215 min read
THE PLOT THICKENS! Or, Your Suspicions May Be True
by Helen Currie Foster Okay—Mom Genes is such a great title, it couldn’t not be used. But Abigail Tucker’s new book of that title doesn’t...
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K.P. Gresham
May 10, 20217 min read
The Ones That Stick With You
by Helen Currie Foster We read to learn, we read to be entertained. We begged at age three, “Tell me a story.” The stories began, “Once...
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K.P. Gresham
May 3, 20213 min read
Submitting Short Stories: Part 2
By N. M. Cedeño Previously, I wrote a post covering some of the basic rules for submitting short stories to anthologies, magazines, and...
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K.P. Gresham
Apr 19, 20216 min read
Naming Characters: Steve Dauchy MacCaskill
I’m working on a mystery novel—I’ve been working on it for years, but now I’m working on it—and am faced with dilemmas too numerous to...
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K.P. Gresham
Mar 29, 20216 min read
What’s That Smell?
by Helen Currie Foster In the back of the closet I recently unearthed my mother’s old Caswell Massey “Gardenia” bubble bath. The...
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K.P. Gresham
Mar 22, 20213 min read
Blending Sub-genres
By N. M. Cedeño Do you write in more than one genre? Do you blend genres or sub-genres? I do. Some sub-genres seem to lend themselves...
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K.P. Gresham
Feb 8, 20213 min read
What’s in a Character Name?
Authors, how do you name your characters? Name Cloud by Wordcloud The average person only has to come up with names when they are naming...
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K.P. Gresham
Jan 11, 20215 min read
Ray Bradbury on Writing and Life
by Renee Kimball “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” ― Ray Bradbury “. . . And what, you ask, does writing teach...
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K.P. Gresham
Dec 28, 20203 min read
Year-End Assessments for Writers
by N. M. Cedeño Writers, if you don’t already assess your writing habits at the end of the year, you should consider doing it. Many...
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K.P. Gresham
Nov 23, 20206 min read
Where Are We? Trowels Up!
Try to imagine a mystery without its setting. What? You’re having trouble? Open a mystery and be denied the setting. What? You’re getting...
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