Complicate Your Characters

by Dawn Reno Langley | Sep 2, 2018 | Advice, Agents, Business Writing, Dawn Reno Langley, Editing, Editors, Encouragement, Fiction, Ideas, Inspiration, Memoir, Publishers, Rejection, Research, Retreats

How many times have you "met" someone face-to-face after the initial meeting on the phone or through a text/email and thought, hmmm, didn't expect him/her to be so short/tall, confident/shy, intense/sexy? We invent personalities and create expectations for those we...

The Last Day of 59

by Carolyn Burns Bass | Aug 14, 2018 | Featured, Jon Obermeyer, Memoir

A decade is roughly 3,650 days. A decade is about half a generation. By the end of your first decade you’re in 4th grade. By the end of your second decade you are halfway through college. When I turned 30, I had a wife, a daughter on the way and a...

Jealousy and the Writer

by Carolyn Burns Bass | Aug 14, 2018 | Carolyn Burns Bass, Featured

You’ve probably read a few. They’re common on Amazon and other consumer book review sites. You’ll sometimes read them in respected print publications, too. They pick at elements of plot, character, setting, and pacing with razor-sharp talons. They shred...

Why I Write

by Dawn Reno Langley | Aug 13, 2018 | Dawn Reno Langley, Featured, Inspiration

The First in a Weekly Blog by the Writers Collaborative at Rewired Creatives, Inc. The Everett Leader Herald published my first article when I was nine years old. For years, I told everyone that I was 11, but a year ago, at the launch party for my novel...