Kathleen Kalb: They're Out There

Kathleen Kalb: They're Out There

Kathleen Kalb: Shiny New Thing

 Kathleen Kalb: Shiny New Thing

Kathleen Kalb: No Assumptions

 Kathleen Kalb: No Assumptions

SleuthSayers: Music to Write by

SleuthSayers: Music to Write by: I have always enjoyed having music on while I write but as I get older I find that lyrics are too distracting, so I go for instrumental stu...

Kathleen Marple Kalb's Blog: So You Wrote the Book, Now What?: Visual Arts

 Kathleen Marple Kalb's Blog: So You Wrote the Book, Now What?: Visual Arts

Criminal Minds: Not Where, but How

Criminal Minds: Not Where, but How:   Terry here with our question of the week: Not “where do you get your ideas, but HOW? Do they come to you as images? Memories? Overheard co...

SleuthSayers: Life is What Happens...

SleuthSayers: Life is What Happens...: The mess of interrupted projects on my desk. Do writers and other artists ever actually retire? Sure, sooner or later we leave our day jobs...

Criminal Minds: The Secret Place Where Writers Find Their Ideas from James W. Ziskin

Criminal Minds: The Secret Place Where Writers Find Their Ideas fr...: Where do you get your ideas? No but seriously what do you use for inspiration: art, music, landscape, the news, dreams, family stories . . ....

SleuthSayers: Doing Its Zone Thing by John Floyd

SleuthSayers: Doing Its Zone Thing: Fiction writing is a strange business. Any writer will tell you that. Publishing is even stranger, but to get something published you have t...

SleuthSayers: Breaking It Down by R. T. Lawton

SleuthSayers: Breaking It Down: As some of you already know, my story, "The Road to Hana," was one of six to be nominated for an Edgar in the Short Story Category...

SleuthSayers: Writing a PI by Jim Winter

SleuthSayers: Writing a PI: The first real novel I wrote could bear the label "in the tradition of Hammett, Chandler, and McDonald." Nick Kepler did have a l...

SleuthSayers: Memories come back to haunt

SleuthSayers: Memories come back to haunt: They come in dreams and they come in flashes when I'm awake. Memories of people I once knew, memories of things that happened and somet...

Something Is Going To Happen: Is it Real or is it Fictionex? (by Rebecca K. Jones)

 Something Is Going To Happen: Is it Real or is it Fictionex? (by Rebecca K. Jones)

Blood-Red Pencil: Writing in the Midst of Too Many Distractions by Polly Iyer

Blood-Red Pencil: Writing in the Midst of Too Many Distractions: What’s going on in the world is not a mere distraction in the writing process, it’s a mind-bending, hard-to-fathom series of catastrophes wi...

Victoria Weisfeld: Where Writers’ Ideas Come From: What Kind of Trip is It?

 Victoria Weisfeld: Where Writers’ Ideas Come From: What Kind of Trip is It?

Mystery & Suspense: The Crime Fiction Novella: Six Experts Discuss The Form's Creativity, Craft, And Market

Mystery & Suspense: The Crime Fiction Novella: Six Experts Discuss The Form's Creativity, Craft, And Market

The Creative Independent: On creating work while living with chronic pain

 The Creative Independent: On creating work while living with chronic pain

SleuthSayers: Protect Your Inner Life by Michael Bracken

SleuthSayers: Protect Your Inner Life: Reacting to Lan Samantha Chang’s essay on LitHub.com, “ Writers, Protect Your Inner Life ,” Trey R. Barker (my Guns + Tacos co-creator/co-e...

SleuthSayers: Protect Your Inner Life by Michael Bracken

SleuthSayers: Protect Your Inner Life: Reacting to Lan Samantha Chang’s essay on LitHub.com, “ Writers, Protect Your Inner Life ,” Trey R. Barker (my Guns + Tacos co-creator/co-e...

Murder Books: Writer’s Block by Brian Thiem

 Murder Books: Writer’s Block by Brian Thiem