Tag Archives: Bird by Bird

What’s the best writing advice you ever got?

Posted on November 26, 2025 by mainecrimewriters

As part of our Writing Tips Wednesday, we are resharing this post from waayy back in 2012, offering some of the writing advice we’ve gotten over the years. Kate Flora here, starting a discussion with my fellow writers about the … Continue reading →

Tagged A.Carman Clark, Anne Lamott, Barbara Ross, Bird by Bird, Group Post, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kate Flora, Kilt Dead, Lea Wait, Liss MacCrimmon Scottish-American Heritage Mysteries, writing advice | 5 Comments

Just Hold Your Nose and Write

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Barbara Ross

“Just hold your nose and write,” is my friend Hallie Ephron’s motto. Hallie has a new book coming out in March, Night, Night, Sleep Tight, a novel of suspense about Hollywood in the 1950s and 1980s. If you’ve never read … Continue reading →

Posted in Barb's Posts | Tagged Anne Lamott, Barb Goffman, Bird by Bird, Fogged Inn, Hallie Ephron, Junot Diaz, maine clambake mysteries, Night Night Sleep Tight, On Writing, Stephen King | 14 Comments

Our Favorite Writing Books

Posted on March 9, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Our group post this weekend is about the writing books that writers turn to. While some writers are “go it alone” types, most writers have some special books about writing that have guided them along the way. Some are books we … Continue reading →

Tagged Adam Olenn, Anatomy of Story, Anne Bernays, Are you My Type am I yours? Relationships made easy through the Enneagram, Bill Rohrbach, Bird by Bird, Blake Snyder, Blood Moon, Characters Emotion and Viewpoint, Christopher Keane, Christopher Vogler, Dave King, Group Post, How to Write a Selling Screenplay, J.M. Cornwell, Jack Bickham, John Gardner, John Truby, Kieran Shields, Lise McClendon, Loren D. Estleman, Maggie Toussaint, Nancy Kress, On Writing, Pamela Painter, Ray Bradbury, Renni Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Robert McKee, Sandra Gardner, Save the Cat, Scene and Structure, Self-editing for Fiction Writers, Starting from Scratch, Stein on Writing, Steven King, Story, The Art of Fiction, The Writer's Guide to Character's Traits, The Writer's Journey, What if?: writing exercises for fiction writers, William Martin, Wired for Story, writing Life Stories, writing the popular novel, Zen and the Art of Writing | 3 Comments

Never mind what mother told you. . .

Posted on August 11, 2011 by mainecrimewriters

It’s Kate, and I’m talking today about teaching. A writer has to listen. That’s what I tell my writing students. As they sit there around the table, pens poised for the wisdom that a 28-year writer might have to impart, … Continue reading →