New Writing Blog -- Any Questions?

Sue: Welcome to our new home. A blog where you can feel free to ask generic  questions, whether large or small, about your writing or writing in general. We are dedicating this blog to helping writers, aspiring or professional, with their writing problems and concerns.

Becky: Yes, welcome. We are so glad you found us. We have been teaching and guiding writers through the pitfalls and hazards of getting started with their stories for more than ten years.  Whether it be a romance novel, a sci-fi adventure or a shoot ‘em up thriller, we have worked with dozens of writers and now we are here to offer you guidance in your work.  


Sue:  Over the years we’ve discovered that many people who want to write a book just don’t know where to start. It all seems so confusing,  and once they do get started, they get lost in where they want to go with their story. How can you plot a story? Where do characters come from?

Becky: And that is where we come in. We have both been beginning writers ourselves and we remember some of those questions and the turmoil that comes from trying to find the answers.  We both enjoy working with writers and we like to see others succeed so we started working together years ago with the goal in mind of helping those who want to go from being a writer to a published
author.

Sue:  We also discovered writers are all different and we both bring some of those general differences to this teaching partnership. I’m the talker whereas Becky is more of a thinker…grin, but between the two of us we cover all the bases, from nonfiction books to a new set of cozies and of course Becky’s romantic-suspense, romance and mystery novels.

Becky:  Sue is the creative artistic type, while I am more of the practical journalist, but when it comes to writing a novel, she is the outlining/plotting sort of writer, while I take an idea and simply run with it, and let the muse take me where it wants to go. Because of our different approaches, we can see just about any side of a discussion, and that is why together we make a great team.

Sue: Right, however we both work best when we have deadlines we have to meet, and although we hate them, they do keep us moving and writing.

 Becky: Agreed. Deadlines and discipline are what get the stories written.  I worked for 30 years in a profession where we sometimes had minute by minute deadlines, but whether it’s hourly or monthly, without deadlines, often  the story, whatever it may be, stays in your head.

 Sue: Never to see daylight, let alone a book shelf  or to go “live” on Amazon in any form, such as a print or ebook. We  We are here now to  help you with your story. Send in your generic questions or concerns and please note that we never use real names in our blog unless,  it is a compliment of some kind.

Becky:  While we can’t always answer specific story questions, we are here to help you with your plotting, developing characters, pacing, and figuring out all those pesky little “insider” things like POV (point of view.)

 

We'll be bringing you writing tips each week, but we want to focus on YOU. Feel free to address the questions you want answered. Send your questions  or comments to either

sueviders@comcast.net or  beckygmartinez@gmail.com

 As a final note -- OUR NEW BOOK IS OUT.

Seven Ways to Plot -- the first in our Let's Write a Story series has just been published on Amazon and is available for Kindle and e-readers.  Here's the direct link:

http://goo.gl/tDKis3

Next week, we'll be back with more ideas to help so Let us Write a Story with you! Send questions!