It's a beautiful sunny morning! I am shockingly ahead in my holiday preparations this year. The last batch of holiday cards is in the mailbox for today's pick up. I even have most of my gifts wrapped.
All this probably means I am slacking off on writing and I should get back to my series so there will be more fun books to read.
One of the things I do to improve my writing is participate in writer's associations. For "Death on a Thin Horse" I included two of the writing groups who had helped me the most in the acknowledgements, Kiss of Death and ColoNY (both are chapters of RWA). I find it invaluable to get feedback from writer colleagues both as part of critique groups and through contests.
More recently, I joined the International Thriller's Association. I had been to several of their annual conferences to attend training sessions and finally decided to join. Their conferences are excellent and offer help and advice from best selling authors.
No matter how much talent a writer has listening and learning from other talented writers nurtures growth.
All this probably means I am slacking off on writing and I should get back to my series so there will be more fun books to read.
One of the things I do to improve my writing is participate in writer's associations. For "Death on a Thin Horse" I included two of the writing groups who had helped me the most in the acknowledgements, Kiss of Death and ColoNY (both are chapters of RWA). I find it invaluable to get feedback from writer colleagues both as part of critique groups and through contests.
More recently, I joined the International Thriller's Association. I had been to several of their annual conferences to attend training sessions and finally decided to join. Their conferences are excellent and offer help and advice from best selling authors.
No matter how much talent a writer has listening and learning from other talented writers nurtures growth.