Community: Writers

Question: What’s a great benefit of joining a writer’s organization?

Answer: Meeting writers along the road to publishing who will be there through the ups and downs.

Professional Writing Organizations
(Many of these have annual conferences—great places to meet other writers, agents, editors, and learn the business and craft of fiction writing.)

Dianna has more info for writers at Break Into Fiction®

International Thriller Writers

Authors Guild

Sisters in Crime Inc

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Romance Writers of America (largest writing org of all)

Mystery Writers of America

Novelists Inc (NINC)

Kiss of Death (home of Daphne du Maurier Award)

Horror Writers Association

Tip from Dianna: I write everywhere I go – airports, in a car, at a park, but I have one spot that is my most productive I protect from all distractions. Find a space that’s yours for writing only for when you need to focus entirely on your writing. No email, no phone calls, no doodling – a space that when you sit down you know the only thing you can do there is write on your story. The more you use this spot, the more you train your body and brain to “click into writing mode” when you sit there.

WRITING REFERENCE BOOKS for any Genre

BREAK INTO FICTION®: 11 Steps to Building a Story that Sells by NYT best seller Dianna Love and Award-winning author Mary Buckham (ISBN 1-60550-015-1 - Adam’s Media 2009) For more on this book click here.

GOAL, MOTIVATION & CONFLICT by Debra Dixon (Gryphon Printing)

THE FIRST FIVE PAGES by Noal Lukeman (ISBN# 068485743X)

BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS: CREATING WITH ENNEAGRAMS by Laurie Schnebly (ISBN#0930831039)

THE WRITER’S DIGEST CHARACTER NAMING SOURCEBOOK (ISBN# 1582972958) by #1 NYT bestseller Sherrilyn Kenyon.

TIME TO WRITE, THINKING WRITE & LIVING WRITE are all wonderful books by Kelly L. Stone that show you how to be the most productive with your time and how to find that time to write.

Tip from Dianna: I am always studying craft, but there comes a time when you must put the reference books and research aside to just write. It’s the difference between a hobbyist mindset and a professional one - get the writing done.

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