By Kimberly Burns Tom Landry, the legendary coach of the Dallas Cowboys, said, “A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you always knew you could be.” That philosophy could be applied to my WomenContinueContinue reading “WWW Writing Coaches”
Category Archives: Guest Blogs
Why is Editing Important?
By Heidi M. Thomas I want to tell you a little secret: Nobody writes a perfect first draft. Not Shakespeare. Not Mark Twain. Not Stephen King. Nobody. (Hemingway once said: “There are no great writers, only great re-writers.”) Why hire an editor? Do you want your book to be the best that it can be?ContinueContinue reading “Why is Editing Important?”
Wintering with WWW: Eilene Lyon
By Eilene Lyon What Lies Beneath Colorado: Researching and Writing a Nonfiction Book in 13 Months Serendipity. As I was wrapping up the final draft of my first book, my publisher put out a call for Colorado authors to write a book in the What Lies Beneath series about pioneer cemeteries in my home state.ContinueContinue reading “Wintering with WWW: Eilene Lyon”
Why I Volunteer for WWW
Women Writing the West has been around for 31 years, but I became a member just five years ago. The COVID lockdown gave me the impetus to finish my first book manuscript. I attended a Women in Publishing webinar and an agent said we should join writers’ organizations in our genre. Mine is history. IContinueContinue reading “Why I Volunteer for WWW”
The Process of Writing My Latest Book
Guest Blog from Carolyn Niethammer shares the process of writing her latest book
Punctuation on the Range:
A cowboy doesn’t ride out without the right gear—and neither should a Western writer.
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