Jacqueline Corcoran

I finished my book, WRITE YOUR WAY TO RIGHT THINKING, as part of the December Finish Your Novel Challenge! One tip I can offer for completing work, particularly non-fiction, is to find an ...

I started this post last time by recommending Carol Hughes's writing class Deep Story. This post I want to suggest two more master teachers. The first is Margie Lawson at http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses. ...

In my never-ending quest to find creative ideas and hone my writing craft, I’ve taken dozens of writing classes. Today I’m going to feature an upcoming class that I’ve gotten a lot out ...

What is your process for writing fast? One way I write fast is to be non-linear about it. The easiest thing for me to write is dialogue and then that means that at ...

My biggest problem in trying to write fast for fiction is getting stuck in my plot. I have some general ideas about where I might go, but the how’s of getting there may ...

The way I made National Novel Writing Month work for me was to (constantly) switch projects. I started out with my YA Victorian mystery, but after a week I felt like I was ...

The December writing challenge is http://www.nanofimo.org/. The purpose is to finish the novel that you might have started in November or in any other month. This group is based on the National ...

Who among us wouldn’t like to write faster? That is the allure of National Novel Writing Month started by Chris Baty: http://www.nanowrimo.org/. Since then, lots of other monthly writing challenges have popped ...