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Guest Post by Aidyl Ewoh,  @aidylEwoh

Serious young writers are a lot more common than most people seem to realize, although maybe that’s because we’re all hidden away writing! I am part of an on-line writing group that has over 450 members; almost all of them are in their teens and early twenties (I’m twenty-one). Several of these teens are already published authors.

Being a young writer has a host of challenges just like any other part of life, but there are things you can do to make writing more successful for you. Here are a few things I’ve picked up over the years:Continue reading

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Happy 2014 everyone!

And, like everyone else on the internet, I have advice for making it a better year.  :)  I actually had a different post I planned on running today, but since my blog reader was so chock-full of writerly advice for the next year, I felt I needed to run a post as an antidote.  When I read too many lofty goals, it both exhausts me and makes me feel as if I’m not doing enough.

So here are my 3 tips for meeting goals in 2014:Continue reading

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine(developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Have a great week and a Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.

7 Lessons Learned from Blogging: http://dld.bz/den3c @JL_Campbell @AlexJCavanaugh

The Range Of Search: A Key to Understanding (and Writing) Mysteries: http://dld.bz/denR2

This week’s #EtherIssue Live Chat: Ebook Sales Flattening? Current Trends. Today at 11 a.m. ET 4 p.m. GMT 5 p.m. CET @Porter_Anderson

Is the penetration of ebooks in the US market ‘flattening out?’ http://dld.bz/devHF @Porter_Anderson @juliebosmanContinue reading

Aside from my Twitterific writing link round-ups on Sundays, I’m going to take a blogging  break until January 1.  After taking a long look at my to-do list (which includes Christmas and a book due January 1), I realized I need to get cracking !

Happy holidays to everyone and I’ll see you around for the two Twitterifics between now and January 1.

Image: MorgueFile:  Taliesin

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I received an email last week from a busy writer with a full-time job and young children.  She asked if I could provide some tips for squeezing writing into a very challenging schedule.

I was happy to do that.  For years, this was the only way I wrote.  Now that my children have gotten older (and one is now driving himself places), I’m getting a bit more time to myself.  But I still write in odd pockets of time: in the middle school carpool line, before the basketball game my daughter is cheering at, waiting for a doctor  appointment, waiting for a friend to show up for a coffee…you get the idea.Continue reading