Sulis — A Newsletter for Writers and Readers (February 2015)

Every author, fiction or nonfiction, is looking for ideas. One fear of most authors is ‘running out of ideas.’ Successful authors will say that there are ideas everywhere, in everything…it’s just a matter of looking for them and  spotting them. Robert Bruce’s recent post on copyblogger, “The Art of Finding Ideas” addresses the issue of finding ideas….

Here are some excellent articles from around the web to hone your writing skills. This month’s posts focus on time management for writers and what to write about. setting realistic writing goals (thewritersaurus). As the title states, this article discusses how to set realistic writing goals. Importantly, the author notes that ‘word count’ goals will (and…

Proofing Your Own Work It is a truism that a writer cannot proof their own work with the same quality as using a third party. You are too close to it. Even if you put it down for a while, when you pick it back up it will be like an old friend you spent…

From LifeHacker comes this nice chart of the basics of story structure. Of course, it’s up to you to make the content compelling, unique, and moving. There’s no shortcut to writing a great story. However, there are guidelines that can help get you started if you’ve never done it before. This chart compiles several different…

There are rules to writing well. They are not hard-and-fast rules—all the masters break them. But they break them at times and in ways that enhance the writing. Following all the rules will make your writing better. Knowing when and how to break them will make your writing great. But you can’t know when and…