Jackie King and Peggy Fielding Peggy Moss Fielding has taught a multitude of Oklahoman’s how to put words on paper in order to create...

by Jaden Terrell The television show Criminal Minds frequently features voice-overs of the lead characters sharing famous quotations that r...

By Beth Terrell It's that time again. That time of year when Killer Nashville founder Clay Stafford and I survive on four hours of sleep...

by Beth Terrell When I was about six years old, there was a story on the news about a little boy who had been killed by a crane. The kind of...

By Beth Terrell Lately, I've had occasion to read a number of manuscripts from aspiring authors. Some have been excellent, some interest...

By Beth Terrell The topic du jour at work of late has been the Olympics. We’ve seen story after story about these athletes—the greatest in...

By Beth Terrell I debated with myself before posting this tonight. "Self," I said, "I think I will write a blog post about Na...

By Beth Terrell "Where do you get your ideas?" It's a question that, sooner or later, every writer is bound to hear. In fact, ...

By Beth Terrell In one of this weeks' blog posts, Nathan Bransford asked his readers (I started to say followers, but that sounded just...

By Beth Terrell Last week, I told you I was going to be spending this past weekend at a writer's workshop near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. ...

By Beth Terrell I'm writing this post from Brewster Massachusetts, very near Cape Cod. I'm here for a writer's weekend workshop ...

By Beth Terrell I'm writing this post in my favorite writer's getaway, a cabin in the mountains not far from Gatlinburg. There's...

By Beth Terrell November is approaching, and with it comes National Novel Writing Month ( NaNoWriMo ). More than 100,000 people from all ove...

By Beth Terrell Thriller writer Gregg Hurwitz said the way to learn to write is not to write 50 books, but to write the same book 50 times. ...

by Jean Henry Mead The Pulitizer winner called himself “Bud” because he thought Alfred Bertram was a “sissy name.” He lived near the face of...

By Beth Terrell As usual, I was running late yesterday morning. A few too many minutes snuggling with the dogs after the alarm went off, a l...

I know writers who hate to edit, but I love it. There is nothing like watching a pile of ordinary words begin to shine. But once you have yo...

When I was seven years old, a television show called Sunrise Semester came on every morning just after Farm Digest. The show consisted of a...

By Beth Terrell A few years ago, I went to a small conference in North Carolina. In the drawing room of a lovely old hotel, several authors ...