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What’s Coming For HWC Members 2018

The last few years have been focused on site development. On getting: Classrooms working Classes back in place The forum functioning Access to classes fixed The old shop replaced with a new shop The broken affiliate program replaced with a top-notch program Last year, I also worked on existing classes, doing an overhaul and update […]

New Year’s Greeting

Pay no attention to the editor hiding behind the curtain. (The one who doesn’t read her own memos.) Holly’s inaugural post for 2018 goes live next Tuesday, 9 January. We’re still on hiatus this week! 0

HWC Blog Hiatus December 21 Through January 8

The HWC Blog is taking a break over the holidays. We’ll kick off the new year with Holly’s inaugural post for 2018 on Tuesday, January 9th. Don’t miss it. 2

Read Fiction

All writers are readers. Not most, not some. ALL. It’s one of the few times you’ll ever hear me make an all-encompassing blanket statement. If you want to write, you have to read. If you want to write well, you have to read a lot. Not to learn voice—you have your own, and you don’t want to […]

The Accidental Editor

It all started with Holly’s email on July 26, with this subject line: “SERIES price increase delay… yowls of pain noted” for her ‘How to Write a Series’ course. It was a training I’d known about for a few years, and one I desperately needed. I knew that the middle-grade fantasy-mystery series clamoring to get out […]

Buying Pain Wholesale: Comparing Yourself to Other Writers

When a book you adore by a writer you admire hits bestseller lists, makes insane amounts of money, and skyrockets your favorite into writing’s “A” list of superstars, it’s pretty easy to be gracious. After all, you can understand how and why this amazing success happened. The book and the writer both deserved the acclaim. […]

Why Storytelling Matters

Down in the dark, sitting against the damp, mossy stone with one of us tending to the tiny fire, we huddle close and whisper. Bigger and more dangerous things than us rule this world, and while we have mastered fire, we have not mastered them. 12