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There’s Trees Out There, But What Else?
There’s Trees Out There, But What Else? Traci Kenworth Sometimes it’s hard to decide what should be in your stories. A hidden brook? An enchanted forest? Elves? All can be fun and yet, just as discouraging. You don’t quite want to bring someone else’s tales to life. You want different. Unique. Where to begin?…
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The Leibster Blog Award
I’ve been tagged by YA Author, Vanessa Barger for The Leibster Award. It’s where I tell you 11 Fun Facts about myself, answer 11 questions, and come up with another 11 questions for the bloggers I choose. So let’s get started: 11 Fun Facts: 1. I used…
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Regulating Your Writing Time
Are You Regulating Writing Time to the Background? Traci Kenworth It’s so easy to let time get away from us. Letting time slip away that’s reserved for writing here and there due to errands, appointments, life is hard to get back. I know I’ve been going through this for a…
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Try, Try, Try Again
Try, Try, Try Again Traci Kenworth Rejection sometimes puts us up against a wall. It can be heartbreaking to get turned down on a story yet again. The doubts, the slips of self-confidence, the frustration. All take place. What we can’t let happen is the desire to just give up. We’ll never reach our…
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A Journal of Ideas
Journal of Ideas Traci Kenworth Do you keep one? Do you find it useful? I have both a journal and a jar filled with ideas. There basically just those that have come to mind either from dreams or jotting down notes and presto, they appear. The problem for me is I have so many…
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When Life Gets in the Way…
When Life Gets in the Way Traci Kenworth You’re going along strong, every word is falling into place, every scene playing off of each other when *boom* something in life happens. It can be a car accident, the birth of another/or your first child, or as often happens, health problems. What do you do…
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A Craft Book Review
Craft Book Review: The Elements of Style Traci Kenworth The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White is one book I think every writer has not only heard of but has on their bookshelf somewhere. If you don’t, and you’re serious about your writing, download a copy or pick one up…
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Book Review: Webster’s New World Guide to Punctuation Traci Kenworth Simon & Schuster by Auriel Douglas and Michael Strumpf Hook line: All the rules you need to know to punctuate correctly. Okay, so this is an older book obviously but I’ve been going through craft books lately, trying to study, study,…



